Together with your Co-Director, you will be responsible for developing and implementing policies and programmes that will deliver the carbon reductions required from the industrial sector in order to meet UK statutory Carbon Budgets and put us on a path to Net Zero by 2050. Your Directorate will be responsible for overall strategy and directly for a wide range of interventions, including the UK Emissions Trading Scheme and the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IEFT). But you will also be working closely with other leaders to ensure join-up on key programmes, whether within DESNZ (eg Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage) or in other Departments, particularly HM Treasury (eg on Climate Change Agreements and other aspects of tax policy), the Department of Business and Trade (eg on Industrial Strategy and business energy costs) or the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the circular economy.
Job description
The Directorate’s work ranges from the most strategic and long-term (eg plotting the strategic path for UK industry all the way to 2050) to the local and immediate (eg delivery of grant support to enable investment in energy efficiency in individual factories). It covers the entirety of UK industry and all non-domestic buildings (public sector as well as commercial), and approaches challenges through a combination of cross-cutting enablers (eg carbon pricing), sector-specific engagement (with particular focus on energy-intensive ‘foundation industries’ like steel, cement, ceramics and chemicals), and place-based approaches to enable collaborative approaches to the decarbonisation challenge.
The way the Co-Director model operates can be summarised as ‘shared leadership, split policy/delivery’. The Co-Directors will need to work closely together on all aspects of overall leadership, whether on people, resource management or overall strategy. On specific work programmes, responsibilities are split between the two Co-Directors, with Rachel leading hitherto on emissions trading and carbon pricing, sectoral policy and resource/energy efficiency, and this Co-Director post leading in particular on major spending programmes (current and future), business advice and support, non-domestic buildings, and local/place-based approaches. The precise divide can however be reconsidered if necessary in light of the background and working pattern of the successful candidate. Both Co-Directors are supported by shared analytical, portfolio and strategy functions.
The Directorate of over 250 comprises experts in a range of professions, primarily policy development, project/programme delivery and analysts. Rachel is based in Salford, and while you can be based at any DESNZ location the team you are leading will be spread across them all, making smart and flexible working the norm. The team culture is one of commitment and high performance but underpinned by people-focus, collaboration and inclusivity.
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