Contract Operations Manager

• Operational support: The role will support NLF by translating contract deliverables and decommissioning programme and assurance data into clear, actionable intelligence on delivery confidence, risk and uncertainty, and opportunities to optimise plans and improve efficiency. This will inform NLF’s positioning at stakeholder engagement meetings.

• Contract administration: Oversee all matters related to the Nuclear Liabilities Funding Agreement and AGR Funding Agreement. Facilitate both internal and external meetings concerning liabilities, coordinate contributions from NLF for stakeholder engagements and specific initiatives, monitor action items, update project delivery plans, and compile briefing materials and meeting summaries.

  • Maintain thorough and accurate contract documentation and records and undertake an annual compliance review.

• Reporting responsibilities: Ensure comprehensive and timely reporting to all stakeholders and escalate issues and actionable items promptly. Prepare reports for, and attend, NLF’s Liabilities Funding Committee (a sub-committee of the NLF board).

• Team Contributions: Participate in broader team activities such as risk management and the implementation of organisational policies and controls.

• Provide flexible support to the executive team in daily operations and other projects from time to time.

The role reports directly to the Head of Governance and Liabilities Funding.

Candidate Specification

• Excellent communication skills with commercial contract management and/or project management experience.
• Self-starter capable of working with limited day-to-day supervision and from a non-office environment.
• Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
• Highly organised, with good attention to detail
• Proven capability to engage and influence a range of stakeholders
• 2-5 years general commercial experience
• Knowledge and experience of project planning and experience of EVA/EVM.
• High degree of professional awareness and ability to liaise effectively at different levels in organisations
• Demonstrate the following values:
  • Act with transparency and cooperation
  • Be open to continued improvement and learning
  • Deliver on internal and/or external commitments
  • Alignment with the Nolan Principles of Public Life

Remuneration

• Competitive, depending on experience
• Pension
• Life insurance
• Discretionary bonus.

NLF values diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.

About the Nuclear Liabilities Fund

The Nuclear Liabilities Fund is an independent ring-fenced fund, created in 1996 to ensure that money is available to meet the costs of decommissioning eight nuclear power stations.

How We Operate

What the fund can be used for: the fund’s assets are ring-fenceed for nuclear decommissioning. Money can be used to meet decommissioning costs and the costs of managing and investing the assets, but not for other purposes.

Decommissioning plans and costs: Decommissioning costs are based on plans developed and delivered by organisations such as EDF Energy and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Given the scale, complexity and long-term nature of decommissioning, cost estimates are regularly reviewed and updated as plans develop and assumptions change.

Investing for the long-term: NLF’s role is to safeguard and invest the fund’s assets to generate returns, helping to ensure that sufficient funds are available to meet decommissioning costs over time. Given the timescales of decommissioning, a significant proportion of these costs are not expected to arise for many decades.

How are taxpayers protected? The fund helps ensure that decommissioning costs are planned for over the long term and do not fall unexpectedly on taxpayers. The government has provided guarantees that decommissioning costs will continue to be met if the fund’s assets are insufficient. The fund also contributes to public finances through corporation tax payments and supports economic activity through investment.