Principal Sustainability Specialist

Principal Sustainability Specialist

Department for Transport

Reference number: 267344

Salary: £39,428

Location: Birmingham, Hastings, Leeds, London

Job summary

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Are you passionate about addressing sustainability challenges and reaching Net Zero?

Would you like to help deliver the UK’s climate change commitments?

If so, we are looking for highly motivated professionals with a strong knowledge of renewable fuels and/or sustainability to join the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) Unit as a Principal Sustainability Specialist, and we'd like you to apply!

Job description

Please note – at time of publication of this advert there are no current vacant positions. We expect vacancies to open up in the next weeks and months. Therefore, this campaign will create an active merit list in order to fulfil demand as soon as it arises.

As the UK’s renewable transport fuels regulator, the RTFO Unit is a world-leading centre of expertise on the environmental sustainability of low carbon fuels. We deliver one of Government’s primary policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through decarbonising UK transport.

In this role, no day will be the same. One morning you could be resolving a complex sustainability query from a fuel supplier while in the afternoon you could be developing options and briefing ministers on how to use the scheme to encourage use of new emerging fuels such as hydrogen. The next day you could be presenting to international renewable fuel regulators.

This is a challenging and exciting area of work. You will join the team at a critical time for transport decarbonisation. We are growing the RTFO scheme, looking to introduce a specific mandate for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), and reviewing how we better incentivise the use of novel fuel types like renewable hydrogen.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Initiate and manage technical projects. You will investigate emerging sustainability issues, evaluating the risk they pose to the scheme while identifying and implementing solutions.
• Ensure the sustainability of the RTFO scheme. You will review RTFO applications to evaluate sustainability claims and provide support to colleagues and fuel suppliers on technical issues.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders: You will work with international regulators, industry, and other relevant organisations to address emerging challenges to the sustainability and integrity of the scheme.
• Review the role of third-party assurance in the RTFO: You will review the role that third-party assurance plays in the RTFO.
• Lead on data and statistical reporting. You will ensure the data we hold is put to best use to support the running of the scheme. You will be the line manager for the HEO Statistical Officer and support them with the publication of the renewable fuel statistical reports.

Closing date: Sunday 12th March 2023

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