Assistant Director

Job Description

Cradlefin Consultants are looking for an Assistant Director who will lead projects and staff to deliver its energy policy agenda. This is an opportunity to work creatively and rigorously on some of the most pressing issues for UK infrastructure, outside the constraints of current government policy, over the long-term.

About the role

This role will lead the team responsible for formulating advice on energy policy. The energy sector is in transition moving, at pace, from a system reliant on fossil fuels to one powered by low carbon energy. Energy policy needs to keep pace so that barriers do not become blockers to the changes needed and to advice to government can support this to happen effectively. Knowledge of the energy sector and an understanding of the energy transformation needed to get to net zero will therefore be beneficial. This role offers the opportunity to set  energy policy agenda as it starts to plan its work for the next National Infrastructure Assessment.

Accountabilities include:

• Manage a portfolio of energy policy projects, including studies, and produce high quality outputs that help shape energy policy in the UK.
• Provide thought leadership and direction, supporting the team to apply a range of approaches to evidence gathering, analysis and modelling.
• Apply rigour in deciding what is and isn’t of highest importance to help it further the debate on energy policy and the achievement of carbon emission reduction targets.
• Support and develop a multi-disciplinary team, making the best use of their existing skills and ensuring their ongoing development is central to decision making on resourcing plans.
• Present convincingly and clearly achieve buy-in for the work of the team and dealing with challenges raised with confidence.
• Maintain and develop relationships across the energy sector through individual engagement and representing at events.
• Play an active role in ensuring a great place to work, by encouraging an open culture and providing input and challenge across the work programme.

About you

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive candidate, with the ability to put structure around big questions, to develop plans to deliver evidence-based answers to them and who wants to test ideas and approaches outside the constraints of current policy frameworks. We will give you the space, support and challenge required to think through some of the most complex and high-profile issues facing the UK today

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave package
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions. Access to a retail discounts and cashback benefits site

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at recruitment@cradlefinconsultants.com