RESP Planning Manager - Central England

at  National Grid

ABOUT US

The creation of National Energy System Operator (NESO) is driven by an urgent need to unify and optimise our approach to energy. A more integrated and coordinated strategy is needed to meet the unprecedented challenges of climate change, ensuring secure energy supply, and keeping costs manageable for consumers.
Join us and empower your potential, energise our team, and be part of something bigger.
Your energy, our future, together.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

As we are setting up the RESP capabilities the immediate accountabilities of this role will change as we develop RESP from the enduring accountabilities.

IMMEDIATE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Lead on Regional Energy planning for the EEH/Central England region
• For the region understand how local energy projects, trials and pilots interact with RESP and ensure new RESP processes are designed with local inputs at the heart.
• Build relationships with local stakeholders to understand their priorities for RESP and ensure these are reflected in the RESP design.
• Lead and recruit a small team of planners working on regional projects and RESP development.
• Support the Detailed Design process for RESP development.
• Support RESP process, system and data development.

ABOUT YOU

We’re forging the path, and we know we can’t do it alone. That’s why we need visionary minds like yours to join us on this transformative journey. In this case, we’re looking for someone who:

• Is passionate about decarbonisation and delivering net-zero through working with local communities and energy networks
• Can build strong and effective relationships with external and internal stakeholders that are maintained through periods of change and differences of opinion.
• Understands and is passionate about delivering an energy plan for the EM region that meets regional needs whilst working with other regions and the NESO central team to ensure regional consistency of approach.

We’re looking for someone to lead the RESP team in the creation and implementation of the England’s Economic Heartland* regional planning capability. The RESP team need a wide range of knowledge and experience that are unlikely to be found in a single individual. The range of knowledge and experience we are looking for is:

• Significant experience of Stakeholder engagement, in particular with local government.
• Experience of leading complex projects
• Experience of energy planning especially at a Local Authority, Gas or Electricity Distribution network level.
• An appreciation of the different systems and data used in energy planning and the challenges that this can present.
• An understanding of the interactions between energy markets and asset investment and the economics that drive investment decisions across the energy landscape.
• Team leadership experience including working across other teams
• Ofgem’s RESP consultation refers to the central England region that this role covers as England’s Economic Heartland (EEH)

ABOUT THE ROLE

National Energy System Operator (NESO) recognises the potential of bright and talented individuals, and we encourage you to join us as Great Britain’s energy system undergoes an ambitious, exciting, and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.
At NESO we are recruiting for the team to lead and develop our new Regional Energy Strategic Planning (RESP) role. It’s a great opportunity to join us as we set out to help decarbonise the UK in a local community-based way.
The RESP will ensure energy networks are regionally coordinated across fuel vectors, geographies and with national energy plans. The purpose of this is to ensure more coordinated and efficient delivery of local infrastructure projects including housing and business, speed up the delivery of local decarbonisation plans and ensure that investment reflects local priorities.

We’re looking for someone to lead the RESP team in the creation and implementation of the England’s Economic Heartland* regional planning capability. The RESP team need a wide range of knowledge and experience that are unlikely to be found in a single individual. The range of knowledge and experience we are looking for is:

• Significant experience of Stakeholder engagement, in particular with local government.
• Experience of leading complex projects
• Experience of energy planning especially at a Local Authority, Gas or Electricity Distribution network level.
• An appreciation of the different systems and data used in energy planning and the challenges that this can present.
• An understanding of the interactions between energy markets and asset investment and the economics that drive investment decisions across the energy landscape.
• Team leadership experience including working across other teams
• Ofgem’s RESP consultation refers to the central England region that this role covers as England’s Economic Heartland (EEH).

This role will initially be home based, and we expect the successful candidate to be based in the EEH/ Central England region, moving to a regional office when one is set up. NESO will continue to offer hybrid working from office and home and we are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.

MEDIUM TERM RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead on Regional Energy Strategic Planning for EEH/ Central England region.
• Build a regional team and capability to enable RESP.
• Deliver a Regional Plan to support ED3 delivering on the objectives set out in the Detailed Design.
• Deliver regional governance of RESP as per Detailed Design.
• Deliver RESP regional stakeholder engagement activities as per Detailed Design.
• Work with stakeholders, regional and national, to resolve any planning conflicts for the region.
• Deliver an enduring, whole system RESP delivery approach for the region