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31342 - Industrial Decarbonisation and Market Mechanisms Advisor
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,617 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 July 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 31342 |
Summary
The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity: we seek it, embrace it, and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities, and our environment.
We have two permanent Industrial Decarbonisation and Market Mechanisms Advisor roles available. We're looking for dynamic individuals to join our Industrial Decarbonisation and Market Mechanisms Team within the Environment and Business Directorate (E&B), helping to drive the decarbonisation of the economy.
The Advisor role involves:
• supporting the development of the decarbonisation and energy efficiency regimes, usually with a particular focus on one or more specific regimes
• contributing to the preparation, review and publishing of technical guidance
• advising on specific issues that occur during the operation of the regimes.
This work includes advising and influencing government on decarbonisation policies. You need to network and work with government officials and industry stakeholders, prepare briefings and support our national engagement. This requires gathering of stakeholder views and producing technical and legally sound advice to inform Environment Agency positions.
A significant proportion of the work involves technical aspects of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions, energy, materials or equipment related to greenhouse gas emissions. MRV within the regimes we manage and develop is all about ensuring that operators are accurately measuring, recording and reporting energy or emissions impacts.
You will also be working on the development of existing and new regulatory regimes – for example, supporting the expansion of UK ETS to the maritime sector and the development of regulation to ensure that the new heat networks within the forthcoming UK Heat Network Zoning Regulations will achieve the target greenhouse gas emissions standards.
The work is varied and often reactive therefore you need to respond swiftly to deadlines.
The team
The team provides the national lead on UK policies to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions including the UK Emissions Trading Scheme and development of low carbon industrial clusters, the Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme, Climate Change Agreements, Ozone depleting substances and Fluorinated gases.
In E&B we promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued. We use evidence, expertise, engagement, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your experience and skills.
• You will need to be able to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
• You will be able to work with multiple teams with different specialisms and styles of working.
• You will have the ability to understand legislation and the principles and policy intent that drove the legislation.
• You need to be a creative thinker and a great communicator.
• You will have experience gathering and interpreting relevant data, analysing and using it to support persuasive argument.
This role will suit a numerate science, engineering or environmental sciences graduate (or equivalent experience) with an interest in policy implementation.
Experience of monitoring, reporting and verification in regulation is desirable, not essential.
You’ll have development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
We have two permanent Industrial Decarbonisation and Market Mechanisms Advisor roles available. We're looking for dynamic individuals to join our Industrial Decarbonisation and Market Mechanisms Team within the Environment and Business Directorate (E&B), helping to drive the decarbonisation of the economy.
The Advisor role involves:
• supporting the development of the decarbonisation and energy efficiency regimes, usually with a particular focus on one or more specific regimes
• contributing to the preparation, review and publishing of technical guidance
• advising on specific issues that occur during the operation of the regimes.
This work includes advising and influencing government on decarbonisation policies. You need to network and work with government officials and industry stakeholders, prepare briefings and support our national engagement. This requires gathering of stakeholder views and producing technical and legally sound advice to inform Environment Agency positions.
A significant proportion of the work involves technical aspects of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions, energy, materials or equipment related to greenhouse gas emissions. MRV within the regimes we manage and develop is all about ensuring that operators are accurately measuring, recording and reporting energy or emissions impacts.
You will also be working on the development of existing and new regulatory regimes – for example, supporting the expansion of UK ETS to the maritime sector and the development of regulation to ensure that the new heat networks within the forthcoming UK Heat Network Zoning Regulations will achieve the target greenhouse gas emissions standards.
The work is varied and often reactive therefore you need to respond swiftly to deadlines.
The team
The team provides the national lead on UK policies to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions including the UK Emissions Trading Scheme and development of low carbon industrial clusters, the Energy Savings Opportunities Scheme, Climate Change Agreements, Ozone depleting substances and Fluorinated gases.
In E&B we promote a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture where everyone feels valued. We use evidence, expertise, engagement, and innovation to enhance and support delivery, influence policy, legislation, and secure resources.
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your experience and skills.
• You will need to be able to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
• You will be able to work with multiple teams with different specialisms and styles of working.
• You will have the ability to understand legislation and the principles and policy intent that drove the legislation.
• You need to be a creative thinker and a great communicator.
• You will have experience gathering and interpreting relevant data, analysing and using it to support persuasive argument.
This role will suit a numerate science, engineering or environmental sciences graduate (or equivalent experience) with an interest in policy implementation.
Experience of monitoring, reporting and verification in regulation is desirable, not essential.
You’ll have development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.