Energy Intensive Industries HEO
| Posting date: | 04 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,254 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £34,254 - £36,142 London: £38,138 - £39,994 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 March 2025 |
| Location: | Darlington |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 393608/4 |
Summary
DBT’s Materials Directorate works to ensure the UK has internationally competitive industrial sectors and resilient supply chains for strategically important materials and products – such as glass, ceramics, paper, cement, critical minerals, chemicals, and steel. We are responsible for ensuring that these industries thrive and grow, supporting jobs and investment and providing critical foundational materials for activities in wider sectors across the economy.
We are looking to recruit a Higher Executive Officer into an exciting and varied policy role in the Energy Intensive Industries team.
DBT is a modern and diverse workplace, committed to promoting and ensuring equality and valuing diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.
Energy Intensive Industries
The Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) team is a small policy team dedicated to delivering high quality, well evidenced and impactful change. We are the sector team for industries such as cement, paper, glass and ceramics, and work closely with other teams whose sectors are high energy users, such as steel and chemicals.
EIIs are businesses whose energy and trade intensity leaves them particularly exposed to competition from abroad. We deliver policies to support them with the high cost of energy and ensure they remain internationally competitive, ensuring that investment and productivity within UK foundational sectors remains a priority throughout the UK’s drive towards net zero.
Given our interest in energy policy, the key government department we engage with is DESNZ, and we expect our work over this parliament to be heavily geared towards the strategic approach to industrial decarbonisation and energy prices. By ensuring the voice of industry is heard in government we will help deliver policies that are effective, pragmatic, and which do not come at the cost of de-industrialisation.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Briefing ministers and senior officials.
- Drafting submissions.
- Handling PQs, correspondence and responding to write-rounds, securing input from the wider team.
- Ownership of team mailbox.
- Stakeholder engagement, including with other government departments, as well as Ofgem, Energy Suppliers, Trade bodies for Glass, Ceramics, Paper, Cement.
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