Ofgem
Chair of the Independent Challenge Panel
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About the Role
Ofgem is working at the forefront of the fight to secure Britain’s energy future, shaping the regulation of a newly established national system operator at the heart of the Net Zero transition. We’re looking for a Chair to oversee the new Independent Challenge Panel, an industry-led panel that will help drive high performance and ensure accountability of a critical organisation that is driving system-wide change across the energy sector.
Job Description
We’re offering a fixed-term senior leadership opportunity to oversee and govern the new Independent Challenge Panel (ICP) – a key independent stakeholder group in our regulatory framework for the National Energy System Operator (NESO). This will be an industry-led, self-administered panel, with members from across the GB energy sector who represent the full breadth of NESO’s stakeholders. The ICP will provide comprehensive and co-ordinated feedback on stakeholders’ views of NESO’s performance and will produce an annual public report that will inform Ofgem’s incentives decision-making process.
The expected commitment is 12 days per annum, including meetings, preparation, and other duties.
The role of Chair of the ICP will be a high-profile role with significant influence in ensuring the overall effective operation of the ICP and ensuring that the ICP delivers its roles and responsibilities. This will include:
- Approving the process for appointing panel members and the initial membership
- Chairing panel meetings to ensure structured feedback is delivered to NESO
- Facilitating ongoing dialogue between NESO and stakeholders on NESO’s performance at key points under the performance incentives scheme
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The ICP Chair will also communicate the Panel’s key annual messages to senior leadership within both Ofgem and NESO, ensuring that stakeholder perspectives and performance insights are appropriately conveyed.
Purpose
We have a critical purpose to regulate the National Energy System Operator, ensuring it delivers a secure, efficient and resilient energy system while driving forward the transition to Net Zero. Given the vital service-provision role of NESO to the energy industry, stakeholders play a critical role in NESO’s regulation. You will facilitate and lead a central stakeholder mechanism, shaping how NESO performs and ensuring it delivers for consumers now and in the future.
Person Specification
Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential criteria. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience of chairing, with leadership skills that promote effective decision making and constructive debate. (LEAD)
- Strong understanding of the GB energy sector and the challenges faced in delivering our net zero goals.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to engage and collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to lead independent challenge with a clear focus on consumer outcomes, ensuring that the interests of consumers are appropriately considered alongside industry and system considerations.
- Senior level energy industry or commercial experience.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £15,000, OFGEM contributes £4,345 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides here.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes:
- 30 days annual leave after 2 years
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits
- Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review)
- Flexible working hours and family friendly policies
- Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050
This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.
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