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The responsibilities for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero for 2023 are as follows:

• Delivering security of energy supply
• Ensuring properly functioning energy markets
• Encouraging greater energy efficiency
• Seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries

For 2023, our priorities are:

• Ensure security of energy supply this winter, next winter and in the longer-term – bringing down energy bills and reducing inflation.
• Ensure the UK is on track to meet its legally binding Net Zero commitments and support economic growth by significantly speeding up delivery of network infrastructure and domestic energy production.
• Improve the energy efficiency of UK homes, businesses and public sector buildings to meet the 15% demand reduction ambition.
• Deliver current schemes to support energy consumers with their bills and develop options for long-term reform to improve how the electricity market works for families and businesses.
• Seize the economic benefits of Net Zero, including the jobs and growth created through investment in new green industries.
• Pass the Energy Bill to support the emerging CCUS and hydrogen sectors; to update the governance of the energy system; and to reduce the time taken to consent offshore wind.

Our Inclusive Environment

We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process.

• Co-author our data strategy, coordinating with user representatives and data service delivery teams from across the department, and keep this strategy up-to-date
• Populate and maintain a departmental library of data standards to enable staff to understand the best-practice way to delivery common data processes, such as data sharing or creating Power BI dashboards
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  Monitor external data regulations and data governance best-practice used elsewhere, updating our data strategy and data standards accordingly.
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  Engage enthusiastically with boards, senior data users and data service owners from across the department, supporting them to adopt our data strategy and ensuring that our data strategy represents their needs.
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  Convene and lead Task and Finish groups to investigate specific data governance risks/opportunities, resulting in recommended implementation steps, and then monitoring delivery of these.
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  Provide secretariat support for the director-level Data Governance Board, including maintain a comprehensive picture of departmental data governance risks/opportunities, and using this risk register to prioritise data governance activity.
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  Possible management of junior staff in future.

Skills and Experience

Since our team works across the whole department, and much of our work involves delivery through other teams, candidates for this role must have effective communication and team-working skills.

We are keen to recruit candidates with a diverse range of experience and expertise in data governance, to better enable us to relate to the wide variety of data users and data professionals within the department.

Your personal statement should detail how you meet the following criteria:

Essential criteria

• Experience developing and implementing common data governance processes such as data sharing, data ethics or compliant management of personally identifiable information.
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  Experience working with data and data systems, including a strong understanding of end-to-end data lifecycles.
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  Experience defining innovative and/or best-practice solutions to common data problems and ensuring these are effectively communicated to, and implemented by, users.
  
• Awareness of the range of external data governance regulations and data best-practice guidance, such as the National Data Strategy, and an appreciation of the impact this has on data operations in individual departments.
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  Experience working at the interface of multidisciplinary teams, particularly acting as a translator between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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  High levels of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills, with an ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with partners, stakeholders and colleagues.
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a demonstrable track record of convincing a range of stakeholders to buy into a change.

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  Experience aligning activity/strategy to external data governance regulations and data best-practice guidance
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  Experience implementing a data management approach (e.g. a data maturity assessment).

Technical skills

To be assessed:

Communicating between the technical and non-technical (practitioner) - You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them. You can effectively manage stakeholder expectations. You can manage active and reactive communication. You can support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.

Data governance (practitioner) - You can implement and monitor data governance using standard methodology throughout the data life cycle, within a large organisation. You can meet the requirement for relevant data governance accreditation. You can take responsibility for specific parts of a data governance framework within the organisation.

Data life cycle (practitioner) - You can understand and apply data governance structures and principles over a data life cycle, ensuring best practice at each phase. You can demonstrate knowledge of data governance industry standards. You can design and implement continuous improvements to optimise data governance over a data life cycle. You can work with internal and external stakeholders to build organisational capacity and capability in data governance.

Data standards (practitioner) - You can define data governance policies, processes and standards, and can ensure these are understood at senior levels throughout organisational programmes and projects. You can work effectively with subject matter experts from across programmes to introduce best practice. You can independently monitor how policies and standards are applied and complied with, taking action where necessary.

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

• Working Together
• Changing and Improving

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

• Communicating between the technical and non-technical (practitioner)
• Data governance (practitioner)
• Data life cycle (practitioner)
• Data standards (practitioner)

BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.

Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.

An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.

Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need (from September 2021, depending on how the public health guidance evolves).

Job contact :

Name :
Joseph Elliston
Email :
joseph.elliston@beis.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email :
beisrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk