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Our Mission

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission!

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

Our Inclusive Environment

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS 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.

At the newly formed Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, we provide dedicated leadership focused on delivering security of energy supply, ensuring properly functioning markets, greater energy efficiency and seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is focused on the energy portfolio from the former BEIS.

This year, the department will focus on easing the cost of living and delivering financial security by bringing down energy bills and keeping them down - better insulating consumers from external impacts. Longer term objectives include ensuring properly functioning energy markets; coordinating Net Zero objectives across government; and bringing external delivery expertise to bear on its portfolio of major projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the Energy Security & Net Zero team and our exciting mission, to 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. Joining the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero means helping the UK seize the economic benefits of Net Zero, including the jobs and growth created through investment in new green industries. This will include passing the Energy Bill to support the emerging Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) and hydrogen sectors; updating the governance of the energy system; and reducing the time taken to consent offshore wind.

The team:

Hydrogen is one of a handful of new, low carbon solutions that will be critical for the UK’s transition to Net Zero. As part of a deeply decarbonised, deeply renewable energy system, low carbon hydrogen could be a versatile replacement for high-carbon fuels used today – helping to bring down emissions in vital UK industrial sectors and providing flexible energy for power, heat, and transport.

This exciting role will sit in the Hydrogen and Industrial Carbon Capture (HICC) Directorate, in the newly formed International Hydrogen Team. The team leads our strategic thinking on how to position the UK internationally in ways that both support our domestic objectives and demonstrate leadership in developing a global hydrogen economy. We actively work with other teams in the directorate responsible for developing policy and delivery processes to enable the deployment of hydrogen production and industrial carbon capture in ways that maximise the carbon reduction and economic benefits to the UK.

The successful postholder will support the development of the UK Hydrogen Strategy and help meet the stretching ambition of up to 10GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030. Specifically, as part of broader work to understand our trajectory to 2030, further work is required to understand the potential role and impact of imports and exports on domestic hydrogen production and how this would interact with our wider programme of policy development.

If you are passionate about shaping the UK’s transition to Net Zero and would like to be part of the team building the UK’s hydrogen economy and using the international stage to promote and strengthen it, this team will be an excellent fit. We are a diverse and inclusive team, working flexibly across a range of working patterns. We have a strong focus on learning and development and give people opportunities to develop their skills and expertise. There are regular opportunities to engage with senior officials, work across government and engage external partners.

• Supporting the development of a hydrogen trade strategy, working closely with colleagues from across the Department and Whitehall, the Devolved Administrations, academia, and industry to understand the impacts on – and opportunities for – domestic production;
• Engaging with a wide range of external stakeholders from industry, academia and beyond to understand risks and opportunities to inform government policy direction;
• Interpreting qualitative and quantitative evidence to develop policy recommendations, communicating complex issues in straightforward ways to senior decision makers (SCS, ministers) through written and oral briefing;
• Helping draft high level government publications to ensure they clearly and effectively reflect the UK's hydrogen production strategy.

Skills and Experience

• Strong team player with a desire to develop positive, supportive and strong relationships, working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders;
• Ability and eagerness to learn and adapt to new information and policy areas quickly;
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing;
• Ability to make effective decisions through proactively seeking and considering input from other people, teams and organisations.

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

• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

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 :
Oliviero Iurcovich
Email :
oliviero.iurcovich@beis.gov.uk

Recruitment team :

Email :
beisrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk