JOB SUMMARY

Can you use your experience to help design and implement innovative solutions in a fast-paced, high-profile environment?
Do you enjoy building trusted relationships and influencing senior stakeholders to deliver impactful policy in complex commercial settings?

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is an exciting role leading on the development and implementation of an RCM. You will work alongside policy professionals to help design and deliver the RCM.
This role will draw heavily upon your commercial expertise, and will have a very visible profile both within the department and with stakeholders such as prospective SAF producers and potential investors, alongside partners across the public sector (including HM Treasury and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero). You will be required to exercise a high degree of discretion and judgement on complex and novel commercial matters.
The key responsibilities of this role will include but are not limited to:
• Leading on providing strategic commercial advice to Ministers and senior officials, ensuring this advice considers risks, long-term policy aims and the wider political context.
• Engaging with senior stakeholders to ensure you understand the state of the SAF producer, aviation fuel and aviation sectors, ensuring these perspectives are brought into the policy design and implementation process.
• Providing effective constructive challenge to advice received from in-house and technical experts on aspects of the policy design and implementation of the RCM.
• Acting as an intelligent customer to external advisers to ensure we are providing Ministers with robust advice.
• Exercising judgement and, shaping innovative commercial solutions.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

WORKING HOURS, OFFICE ATTENDANCE AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.
Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.
This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.
The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work.
There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

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

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Commercial experience, including potentially drawn from leading or advising on complex commercial projects, with a view to being able to understand and advise on the commercial issues in designing and implementing an RCM.
• Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to develop strong and trusted relationships quickly.
• Ability to quickly assess and distil evidence, including complex financial, commercial and technical information.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior decision-makers on trade-offs and risks