Deputy Director Public Affairs

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Develops, plans, and delivers work outcomes, including clear and transparent work objectives, milestones and success metrics.
  
  
• Accountable for agreeing and delivering on budget and resource requirements.
  
  
• Responsible for building and supporting the teams delivering the work including effective scoping of work and setting of clear responsibilities.
  
  
• Encourages and supports development of colleagues within profession and teams.
  
  
• Jointly responsible with the Personal Development Lead (PDL) on welfare and pastoral care of all colleagues.
  
  
• Effectively undertakes appropriate and necessary D&I focus within their team and the wider organisation.
  
  
• Key interface between Ofgem, parliament, Government, and all political parties.
  
  
• Set the strategic direction of the function and provide intellectual leadership.
  
  
• Lead strategic sustained engagement for Ofgem and its role in the net zero transition and protecting consumers across critical parliamentarians, shadow government, devolved nations, and regions political structures, commentariat, think tanks.
  
  
• Lead and build a small senior focused team to navigate high profile energy regulation environment. Lead strategic engagement by building on relationships with critical players across all parties and government, MPs, committee members and their offices.
  
  
• Be an active member of the wider Ofgem Leadership team, to build a high performing, highly motivated and expert organisation.

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

• Directors and Managers for regulatory directorates.
  
  
• Other Managers.
  
  
• Heads of Professions.
  
  
• Professional Development Leads.
  
  
• GEMA

External

• Parliament Engagement
  
  
• Government Departments.
  
  
• Other Regulators
  
  
• Energy Sector

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Person specification

The essential criteria for this role is:

• Proven track record of developing and delivering public affairs strategies for Govt Dept/ALB/Private Sector/NGO with background in energy / net zero / consumer.
  
  
• Experience of operating at senior level within regulatory sector/energy sector and Government or similar sector in public affairs and building relationships with key political figures and their teams
  
  
• Demonstrable experience of working with Executive and board to strategically align External affairs strategy and activity to organisational strategy.
  
  
• Demonstrable experience of driving and producing data and insight driven intelligence on political and policy positions that impact on the Energy sector and managing this upwards with senior leaders.
  
  
• Demonstrable experience of creating, leading and developing high performing teams with the ability to create a proactive and entrepreneurial approach to public affairs.

Desirable Criteria

• Strong understanding of change communications - with demonstrable experience of large-scale transformation
  
  
• Experience of working in an agile fast paced environment

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

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.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, OFGEM contributes £20,250 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; up to 30 days annual leave. Excellent training and development opportunities. The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements which include a valuable range of benefits. Flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Interest free season ticket loan.

Things you need to know

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 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 skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your personal statement, how you meet each of the essential skills and capabilities.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 2 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

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.