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Job Summary
Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. Our primary responsibility is to protect energy consumers, especially the most vulnerable, while at the same time working with government, industry and consumer groups to deliver a clean, more affordable and secure net-zero energy system at the lowest cost to consumers and drive economic growth.
Our Delivery and Schemes directorate is at the heart of Ofgem’s enduring priority to deliver low-carbon energy and social schemes for government, to support vulnerable consumers, and advance decarbonisation. As a part of our work ,we have a statutory obligation to publish a number of annual and quarterly scheme reports. These published reports are an important communication tool used to highlight activity on schemes collectively worth over £12 billion per year.
As Public Reporting Coordinator, you will help coordinate production of our reports, ensuring they are accurate, engaging, and delivered on time. This means working with a range of stakeholders to define and develop content, while ensuring consistency of style and format. You will also ensure our reports are suitable for those with additional needs, by meeting statutory accessibility requirements.
This is a fast-paced environment that requires you to be resourceful and proactive. Excellent writing and editing skills are essential, so we can communicate with our audiences clearly and concisely in plain English. You’ll be comfortable working with data, have a drive for quality, a keen eye for detail and the ability to work across multiple projects concurrently. An interest in low carbon energy and energy efficiency would be an advantage.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
* Coordinating the production of quarterly and annual reports and being the primary driving force behind report production to ensure deadlines are met.
* Collaborating with internal stakeholders across Delivery and Schemes to define content requirements and create high quality content for published Delivery and Schemes reports.
* Analysing content and related datasets to ensure that reports are accurate, clearly presented, logical and engaging.
* Drafting report content and helping to translate data into something that is accessible, engaging, and informative to a wide audience.
* Ensuring style and format consistency across reports, whilst adhering to organisational brand and style guidelines.
* Ensuring reports comply with accessibility regulations.
* Seeking feedback from internal and external stakeholders and revising content as required.
* Maintaining, developing, and improving internal report production processes.
Key Outputs and Deliverables
* Ensuring reports are successfully delivered within given timescales and to a high standard.
* Timely and effective engagement with stakeholders to define content requirements and seek feedback to refine report content.
* Informative, engaging and concise writing to communicate the story behind the data, in plain English.
* Ensuring uniformity of design and identifying and implementing improvements to report designs.
* Compliance with accessibility regulations.
Key Responsibilities
* Coordinating the production of quarterly and annual reports and being the primary driving force behind report production to ensure deadlines are met.
* Collaborating with internal stakeholders across Delivery and Schemes to define content requirements and create high quality content for published Delivery and Schemes reports.
* Analysing content and related datasets to ensure that reports are accurate, clearly presented, logical and engaging.
* Drafting report content and helping to translate data into something that is accessible, engaging, and informative to a wide audience.
* Ensuring style and format consistency across reports, whilst adhering to organisational brand and style guidelines.
* Ensuring reports comply with accessibility regulations.
* Seeking feedback from internal and external stakeholders and revising content as required.
* Maintaining, developing, and improving internal report production processes.
Key Outputs and Deliverables
* Ensuring reports are successfully delivered within given timescales and to a high standard.
* Timely and effective engagement with stakeholders to define content requirements and seek feedback to refine report content.
* Informative, engaging and concise writing to communicate the story behind the data, in plain English.
* Ensuring uniformity of design and identifying and implementing improvements to report designs.
* Compliance with accessibility regulations.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
* A keen eye to scrutinise and edit written work and data, to ensure the highest quality outputs. (Lead criteria)
* An ability to analyse content to identify errors and inconsistencies.
* Coordinating input from a variety of sources to deliver work on time and to a high standard, with minimal supervision.
* Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
* The ability to handle multiple projects concurrently and to be resourceful and proactive when issues arise.
Desirable Criteria
* Knowledge of or an interest in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Communicating and Influencing
* Making Effective Decisions
* Working Together
* Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* Please refer to the Candidate Pack and Role Profile attached for full details.
Alongside your salary of £25,854, OFGEM contributes £7,489 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. 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.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be directed to a Civil Service test – guidance for this can be found here Civil Service online tests - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Upon passing the test, 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 essential and desirable skills and capabilities.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application or used during interview, including your CV and any statements or examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Ofgem takes any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
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.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
* Name : Emma Tosh
* Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
Recruitment team
* Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
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