SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE (ESSENTIAL)

• Strong leadership and management skills with the ability to motivate and empower the team to perform, with a focus on building the team’s capability, and to innovate and think strategically.
• A strong track record as an analyst with experience of working in a policy environment. You will be comfortable leading the interface between analysis and policy, and able to draw strategic conclusions from often complex and uncertain information.
• Practical experience of leading analysis in a technical policy area, of applying economic appraisal techniques, to inform complex or contentious business cases for major projects (including experience of drawing insight from complex models) or in market design, and approaches to evaluating the impacts of policies.
• A track record in leading diverse teams effectively and promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. You will also be expected to make a full contribution as a member of the Directorate’s senior leadership team, leading on elements of our local People Plan and ensuring the Directorate remains a welcoming and inclusive place for everyone to work.
• A collaborative approach to working with policy customers, partner organisations and colleagues from different analytical disciplines to deliver complex programmes across boundaries, and experience of building highly effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders, with an ability to influence and confidently challenge when necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS

• The post-holder must have or be prepared to gain membership of the relevant analytical profession i.e. Government Economics Service, Government Social Research Service, Government Operational Research Service or Government Statistical Group. For all analytical posts, this includes a requirement for at least a 2:1 degree in an appropriate discipline.

QUALIFICATIONS

For all analytical posts, this includes a requirement that you already hold at least a 2:1 degree in an appropriate discipline.

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)
• 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

TYPE OF ROLE

Analytical
Operational Delivery
Senior leadership
Other

ABOUT THE ROLE

CCUS is a cross-economy sector which could play a crucial role in decarbonising the power, industry, and waste sectors, as well as in enabling future hydrogen production and potential negative emissions via greenhouse gas removals. Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGRs) present a major opportunity for green industry in the UK.
As part of plans to deliver net zero, energy security, and economic growth, the UK has demonstrated its ambition to be a global leader in developing and deploying innovative technologies such as Direct Air Carbon Capture and Storage (DACCS), Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), and Direct Ocean Capture.
This will deliver new export opportunities and support tens of thousands of high-quality green jobs across the country, while balancing residual emissions from hard-to-decarbonise sectors such as aviation.
This new Deputy Director role would lead DESNZ’s analysis supporting this policy area, ensuring that we have robust evidence and data to underpin strategic decisions about the role of CCUS and Greenhouse Gas Removals across the economy and in contributing towards our legally-binding carbon budgets. This includes providing the analysis to support ongoing negotiations with project developers and to enable HMG to take individual multi-£bn investment decisions, as well as to support our future policy and strategy development as CCUS matures as a technology.

The role will bring together work on:

• Sector analysis on CCUS in relation to hydrogen, industrial carbon capture, waste, and power including biomass with CCUS (BECCS).
• Analysis on CCUS transport & storage, Value for Money, and wider CCUS modelling.
• Analysis on greenhouse gas removals other than BECCS.
• Monitoring and evaluation for CCUS.

The main objectives and responsibilities for the role will include:

• Leading a growing team of ~30 staff, managing resources flexibly across your responsibilities, inspiring and empowering them to perform, providing continued opportunities for them to stretch and develop, and helping ensure a fun and supportive atmosphere within the team.
• Providing best in class analysis to support decisions on CCUS and greenhouse gas removals, including driving strategic and analytical thinking, and building analytical capability for the future.
• Continued analytical support for decision-making on the first two CCUS clusters and on Project 27 (transitional arrangements for biomass generators), through Final Investment Decisions and into delivery/M&E, including support for the negotiations with external stakeholders and internally with HMT.
• Building the case for further CCUS tranches, including funding envelopes, negotiations support and business cases for individual investment decisions, as well as agreeing carbon delivery expectations for Carbon Budget 6 and Carbon Budget 7.
• Supporting future strategy/policy development across CCUS and greenhouse gas removals, including in relation to potential models for transition to future merchant delivery of CCUS projects and potential future business models to bring forward greenhouse gas removals technologies.
• As a member of the Analytical Leadership Team, help to promote a strong, connected and influential analytical function and a collaborative, supportive analytical function. This role has a dotted reporting line to the Director of Analysis and the post-holder is expected to have a corporate objective to support the analytical function.
• Making a full contribution as a member of the CCUS Programme and wider Directorate senior leadership team, including by working collaboratively across boundaries and flexing resources in line with overall priorities, leading on elements of our local People Plan, and ensuring the Directorate remains a welcoming and inclusive place for everyone to work