Senior Strategy Manager - Future Organisation Design and Capability

Job description

Job summary

Ofgem is Great Britains 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.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome - as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

Role Purpose

Ofgem is considering how it needs to evolve as an organisation to respond to a changing energy system, wider changes across government and the regulatory environment, and the opportunities and challenges it is likely to face over the longer term.

The Future Organisation Design and Capability team leads the organisation-design and operating-model thinking that supports the development of Future Ofgem. We bring together evidence about how Ofgem operates today with exploration of the future, helping the organisation understand the capabilities, organisational arrangements and ways of working it may need to succeed over the longer term.

As a Senior Strategy Manager, you will play a key role in developing this work. You will lead defined pieces of strategic analysis, organisation-design and operating-model work, exploring how changes in Ofgem's strategic and operating context could affect how the organisation needs to work in future.

You will work on complex and emerging questions where there may not be an established answer. This could include identifying and testing assumptions about Ofgem's future operating context, exploring alternative futures, understanding relationships and dependencies across the organisation and wider system, and developing and testing operating-model hypotheses and options.

Working across Ofgem and with external partners, you will bring together evidence and different perspectives and translate them into practical insight about future capabilities, organisational choices and operating-model

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead defined pieces of organisation-design and operating-model analysis, exploring how Ofgem may need to evolve to deliver its strategic ambitions and respond to changes in its operating environment.

• Bring together evidence about how Ofgem operates today and how its context may change in future, identifying implications for organisational capabilities, ways of working and operating-model choices.

• Develop and test organisational and operating-model hypotheses and options, considering areas such as capabilities, governance, decision-making, organisational boundaries, interfaces and enabling capabilities.

• Contribute to the development and testing of strategic shifts and central planning assumptions, helping to make important assumptions about Ofgem's future operating context explicit and assess their organisational implications.

• Use systems thinking, strategic foresight and futures approaches where appropriate to explore uncertainty, understand relationships and dependencies, challenge assumptions and test organisational choices against different plausible futures.

• Plan and lead research, stakeholder engagement and collaborative activity, drawing together evidence and perspectives from across Ofgem, government, other regulators and relevant external organisations.

• Synthesise complex and sometimes conflicting evidence into clear findings, options and recommendations, and communicate these effectively through high-quality briefings, papers and presentations for senior audiences.

• Work collaboratively across Ofgem and contribute to the development of the team's organisation-design and operating-model capability, taking ownership of substantial pieces of work and adapting priorities as Future Ofgem develops.

Person specification

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Depending on the stage and priorities of Future Ofgem, the postholder will contribute to and lead defined elements of:

• Current-state and future-focused organisational analysis, bringing together evidence, stakeholder perspectives and relevant external research.

• Strategic-shifts and central planning assumptions analysis, identifying implications for Ofgem's future organisation and operating context.

• Future scenarios and operating-model analysis, developing and testing organisational hypotheses, design principles and options.

• Analysis of future organisational capabilities and ways of working, including relevant governance, decision-making, boundaries, interfaces and dependencies.

• Stakeholder engagement and collaborative design activity, including workshops and other approaches to developing and testing emerging thinking.

• Clear papers, presentations, visual analysis and recommendations to support senior decision-making and the development of Future Ofgem.

Strategic analysis and problem solving (LEAD): Experience of structuring complex or ambiguous problems, bringing together evidence from different sources and developing clear insights, options or recommendations.

Understanding organisational implications: (LEAD) Experience of considering how changes in strategy, policy, context or requirements could affect how an organisation, programme or service operates, including its capabilities, processes, governance, structures or ways of working.

Systems and analytical thinking: Ability to see connections and dependencies across complex problems, look beyond individual issues or organisational boundaries and identify wider implications.

Working through uncertainty: Experience of developing work where the evidence, requirements or solution are not fully established, including testing assumptions and adapting an approach as understanding develops.

Stakeholder engagement and influencing: Experience of working across organisational or professional boundaries, bringing together different perspectives and using evidence and engagement to develop shared understanding and influence outcomes.

Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesise complex information and communicate it clearly to senior audiences.

Delivery: Experience of independently leading substantial pieces of work, managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality outputs in a complex environment.

Qualifications
Must have an accreditation in change management? (e.g. PROSCI, APMG Change Management) If so, please state.

Behaviours

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of 49,452, OFGEM contributes 14,326 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

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. Restaurant and subsidise gym (London only). Interest free season ticket loan.

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.

You will 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 supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on thelead criteriaindicated in the essential criteria.

The interview will include a presentation or exercise - details of which will be released to candidates invited to interview.

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

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

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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

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Working for the Civil Service

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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) .

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