National Energy System Operator
Strategic Insights Senior Analyst
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Strategic Insights Senior Analyst
The Whole Energy System Resilience (WESR) Deputy Director – Strategy
About The Role
The Whole Energy System Resilience (WESR) directorate strengthens whole-energy-system resilience by acting as a catalyst for change—transforming insights into coordinated, prioritised action that mitigates risk and enhances capability across the system. WESR achieves this through systematic analysis, risk assessments, scenario reviews, emergency exercises, and actionable plans that drive measurable improvements in partnership with stakeholders.
WESR operates through a continuous improvement cycle to:
- Learn systematically about energy system risks and resilience
- Conduct prioritised assessments to generate actionable insights
- Translate insights into strategic actions that deliver tangible improvements
The WESR team is expanding its capability to maintain a strategic, system-wide view, integrating insights across all teams while enabling specialist areas to focus on deep expertise and operational excellence.
This hybrid role can be based in Wokingham, Warwick, or Glasgow, with flexible options for both full-time and part-time applicants, alongside tailored remote/hybrid working arrangements.
The role will develop and interpret strategic insights connecting trends, risks, and priorities across WESR, NESO, and the wider energy system. Key priorities include:
- Maintaining a live picture of energy system resilience by consolidating evidence from WESR’s work programme and external trends
- Clarifying priorities to ensure effort is impact-focused, maximising progress where it matters most
Key Accountabilities
Develop, process, and distribute energy system intelligence and insights in support of WESR’s cross-cutting objectives. The role will:
- Synthesise intelligence across multiple sources (government, industry, academic, and WESR/NESO resources) to identify key risks and resilient themes.
- Bridge gaps between research findings and form avant-garde analysis, ensuring insights, and defining priorities that shape systemic outcomes.
- Articulate a unified resilience narrative that integrates WESR/NESO’s strategic programme and the external environment to clarify where action delivers maximum impact.
- Monitor and analyse external trends, risks, and disruptions (e.g. legislative, technological, environmental) to identify implications for long-term energy resilience and strategic priorities.
- Employ systems thinking to understand how technical, operational, political, and external factors interact and propagate.
- Prepare recommendations for Senior Leadership to inform strategic planning and decision-making.
- Enhance collaboration across technical teams (e.g., resilience strategies, intelligence assessments, policy and foresight teams) to ensure clear communication of complex analysis into actionable and evidence-based insights.
- Develop and apply analytical approaches, frameworks, and evaluation tools to enhance resilience assessment capabilities.
- Add value to WESR’s operational excellence by helping to recognise “look and feel” features of successful resilience-driven work.
- Ensuring content quality through fast-week opportunities, peer reviews, and embedding a culture of analytical rigour and feedback.
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About You
Ideal candidates for this role will:
- Technically have experience in analytical, strategic, foresight, risk, resilience, policy, system planning, or comparable fields—and be comfortable distilling complex information into clear recommendations.
- Master the ability to track and comment across diverse sources, identifying recurrent themes, emergent risks, and systemic vulnerabilities for a holistic energy purview.
- Approach complex challenges with structured and deductive thinking, dissecting the implications an ensuring alignment with leadership strategy.
- Think critically and be highly reduced to acquiring a large amount of information while still providing practical guidance to decision-making.
- Communicate with clarity, authority, and responsiveness, engaging both internally with colleagues and externally with stakeholders.
- Manage tasks and priorities, balancing urgency and insight while contributing actively to team cohesion and progress.
- Be passionate about improving the UK’s long-term energy security, basing judgement on evidence and data-driven solutions.
- Have direct industry experience or awareness (energy, power systems resilience, or systems and risk) and be amenable to rapid knowledge acquisition across a wide spectrum of technical foci.
What You’ll Get
Competitive Salary: £56,000 – £62,000 per annum, subject to experience and assessment.
Additional core benefits:
- Bonus: A discretionary annual bonus subject to company performance
- Leave: 26 days' holiday (as standard, plus public-holiday options
- Pension: A contributory scheme where NESO serves as the 50% match—capping also match contributions at 12% of salary
- Savings Match (under voluntary intra-plan transfer schemes): Save between £20-£500/month and NESO doubles your contribution
Other benefits (part of a flexible benefits programme):
- Flexible holiday trading
- Exclusive supplementary annual day-of-birth off
- Access to Cycle-to-Work Scheme, retail discounts, and gym memberships
- Comprehensive insurance coverage:
- Private medical insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Personal accident insurance
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About Us
The National Energy System Operator (NESO) plays a pivotal role in decabonising electricity while securing Great Britain’s energy future. As of 2024, following the transition from the Electricity System Operator (ESO), NESO is now an independent regulatory public corporation extending its oversight to encompass energy, gas, and hydrogen systems.
We licensed by Ofgem operate under watchful regulatory sightlines but, crucially, act with complete institutional independence from outside influences (political, economic, or industry-based). This commitment ensures decisions that maximise public benefit—balancing sustainability, affordability, and transparency.
NESO’s transformation validates its mission: to achieve a carbon “free” electricity network running solely on renewable energy by 2030, if climate conditions and market demands are met. We enable visibility, advised policymakers, and drive value for all energy stakeholders.
Current focus points include integrating emerging systems (e.g., green hydrogen investment), aligning national policy frameworks, reducing net-carbon through distributed generation, and preparing the grid for mixed energy divestures. We lead energy innovation while advocating for a system-wide transformation financially sound, fair, and sustainable.
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NESO is driven to recognise and onboard the best talent, fostering an internal culture rich in diversity, inclusivity, and encouragement. We always encourage applications from everyone—regardless of qualifications, background, or mitigating experiences.
NESO is committed to fostering systemic representation that contracts with our clients’ communities while cultivating a fully inclusive and performance-driven workplace. Should this role align with interests but prohibit the “check-box checklist” requirements—apply nonetheless. We’re studying every scenario of abilities and advancement streams; together we champion difference—because it makes innovation multidimensional and robust. Commitment to diversity, STEM backgrounds, and under-represented groups is what we ask.
This role closes at 11:59 pm on [date listed in advert]*; however, submit early for optimal consideration. Interviews will happen during the week of 3 August 2024.
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