Were looking for someone with a strong engineering background in the power sector, with a decent grasp of resilience or climate adaptation. Youll bring professional registration (or be working towards it), strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, and the ability to deliver complex work to challenging timescales. Clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences will be key to success. In return, youll benefit from flexible working arrangements, generous civil service pension and leave entitlements, and the opportunity to work alongside leading experts across government, industry and academia on one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time. We have a critical purpose to strengthen climate resilience across Great Britains energy networks, ensuring that transmission and distribution systems remain secure, reliable and affordable as climate risks intensify. Through this role, you will help embed resilience into regulatory frameworks and strategic planning, supporting the transition to Net Zero while safeguarding consumers and the wider economy. Person specification Please ensure you demonstrate clearly within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria below (not more than 1250 words). In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just thelead criteria indicated below. Essential Criteria: Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience and Professional Registration (e.g. CEng, IEng, or in the process of gaining registration) Relevant experience of the power sector with an understanding of resilience and/or climate adaptation, and ability to learn new areas quickly. Expertise in both quantitative and qualitative analysis for informing solutions and decision making. Ability to deliver key projects to challenging timescales Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including explaining complex technical issues to non-technical people, in both oral presentation and written forms, and influencing others to make timely outputs. Desirable Criteria: Demonstrable grasp of one of our key areas of work: policy development, economic principles, regulatory cost assessment, either through academic qualifications or previous posts Relevant experience in several of the following areas of Electrical Transmission & Distribution such as: system modelling, network or system operations, system design and planning, network codes, smart grids and network innovation, asset management, performance and quality of service issues. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Working Together Delivering at Pace Benefits Alongside your salary of 47,895, OFGEM contributes 13,875 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies (eg. part-time, job-shares, term-time working, etc.). Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about. Things you need to know Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. When you press the Apply now button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications. You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word personal statement evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile. The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [ https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn ]. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). Apply and further information This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window). Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job contact : Name : Rob Wilkins Email : Recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk Recruitment team Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk Further information Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commissions Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of these Recruitment Principles. In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website. 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