Strategy Analyst

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Division: NESO Strategic Spatial Energy Planning

Job Type: Full Time

Requisition Number: 70945

Department: ESO

Job Function:
Strategy

Description:

National Energy System Operator (NESO) recognises the potential of bright and talented individuals, and we encourage you to join us as Great Britain’s energy system undergoes an ambitious, exciting, and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

National Energy System Operator (NESO) is looking for a Strategy Analyst to join our growing Strategic Energy Planning Directorate. This is an exciting opportunity to help deliver the Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP), a first of its kind plan that is a critical step in supporting Grate Britain’s ambitious power sector decarbonisation targets.

The role will play vital part in ensuring the SSEP is integrated cohesively with ongoing energy market reform and NESO’s wider strategic energy plans. This will involve close collaboration with stakeholders such as DESNZ and Ofgem, as well as leading analytical work to develop robust, evidence ‑ based positions. The role is ideal for strategic and adaptable policy professional who enjoys addressing complex challenges and offers an excellent opportunity to further develop policy and strategy expertise within a dynamic team.

This role can be based from Wokingham, Warwick, Glasgow, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home . We are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.

The creation of National Energy System Operator (NESO) is driven by an urgent need to unify and optimise our approach to energy. A more integrated and coordinated strategy is needed to meet the unprecedented challenges of climate change, ensuring secure energy supply, and keeping costs manageable for consumers.

Join us and empower your potential, energise our team, and be part of something bigger.

Your energy, our future, together.

In Autumn of 2024, the ESO transitioned to National Energy System Operator, or NESO for short. Previously denoted as the Future System Operator (or FSO), the new National Energy System Operator is the independent body responsible for planning Great Britain’s electricity and gas networks and operating the electricity system.

NESO, including all of its existing roles, are now at the heart of the new National Energy System Operator. As NESO, we will build on our existing roles, capabilities, and ways of working significantly to create an organisation the energy system and its users’ need. Our new capabilities will enable us to look across vectors, including electricity, natural gas and hydrogen, and crucially consider the trade-offs between them.

The organisation is set up as a public corporation with its own Board of independent directors, with complete operational independence from government, the regulator and any and all commercial interest. As was the ESO, NESO will be licenced and regulated by Ofgem through price control agreements and obligated to identify optimal solutions to system operations and planning in the most sustainable, affordable and secure way for all.

The time to deliver is now. As part of our team, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in Great Britain – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

• Understand the deliverables of NESO’s wider Spatial Planning programmes, and wider energy programmes, including connections, planning and market reform.
• Analyse complex, interconnected policy and technical issues across programmes.
• Produce and deliver clear, concise papers to distil emerging issues into evidence ‑ based insights and options.
• Lead meetings and workshops, ensuring that key messages are relevant, clear, and pitched appropriately for the audience.
• Work collaboratively with members of the Strategic Energy Planning Directorate, wider teams across NESO, and external stakeholders.
• Be responsible for structuring and managing your own work, providing regular…