Climate Resilience Expert

Ofgem; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 55,301 - 67,590; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave after 2 years

Excellent training and development opportunities

Civil Service pension

Flexible working hours

Job summary

A leading energy regulator in the UK is seeking a Climate Resilience Expert to enhance the energy sector's adaptation to climate change. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in climate science, outstanding analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders. This permanent role offers competitive compensation and a supportive work environment focused on innovation and professional development.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in climate adaptation/resilience and/or climate science.
• Demonstrable evidence of excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Extensive experience working collaboratively to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive the shift in energy sector understanding of climate change.
• Transform research and data into practical approaches for energy networks.
• Work collaboratively with government, industry, and academia.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Communication

Influencing

Collaboration

Climate adaptation expertise

Job description

Join to apply for the Climate Resilience Expert role at Ofgem

This range is provided by Ofgem. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations – Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow. Our hybrid working policy is one day per week, equivalent to 20% of the working week.

Job summary

Britain’s energy system is not prepared for the increasing challenges associated with climate change, and the way we plan for resilience today will determine how secure and sustainable our future will be. Ofgem is looking for a Climate Resilience Expert to drive the urgent shift in how the energy sector understands, prepares for and responds to a changing climate.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

We’re offering a permanent opportunity for an experienced climate resilience or climate science professional to join our Climate Resilience Strategy team, helping shape and implement approaches that ensure our energy system remains robust in the face of escalating climate impacts.

You’ll operate at the cutting edge of the science‑policy interface, transforming research, evidence and data into practical approaches that inform how Britain’s energy networks adapt to extreme weather and long‑term climatic change. This role offers rare scope for innovation and the chance to contribute to work that directly improves the energy systems that millions of people depend on.

Collaborating across government, industry and academia, and engaging stakeholders from DESNZ and Defra to network operators, system planners and leading climate think tanks, you will interrogate evidence, challenge assumptions, distil complex insights and secure buy‑in.

This is a role for someone who thrives in complexity, brings intellectual curiosity, and is motivated by delivering tangible, real‑world impact. You’ll have strong climate adaptation or resilience expertise, exceptional analytical capability, and the confidence to navigate and influence multi‑disciplinary environments. You’ll be adept at synthesising qualitative and quantitative data, aligning diverse perspectives, managing competing priorities and maintaining momentum in a fast‑moving policy environment.

You’ll join a supportive and flexible organisation that values learning, development and two‑way knowledge exchange, and where there are opportunities to grow professionally and operate at the interface of science and policy, undertaking truly innovative work.

We have a critical purpose to build an energy system that is resilient, adaptive and capable of withstanding the climate risks of today and the future. Join us and help shape the policies and regulatory choices that will underpin Britain’s climate‑resilient transition.

Person specification

• Strong expertise in climate adaptation/resilience and/or climate science. (LEAD)
• Demonstrable evidence of excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills to inform recommendations, including ability to analyse and manipulate qualitative and quantitative data from wide range of sources to inform decisions, constructively challenge status‑quo and underpinning assumptions if required, and identify and gain buy‑in on key issues, priorities and solutions to complex policy/regulatory problems. (LEAD)
• Demonstrable evidence of excellent communication and influencing skills including ability to distil and communicate complex ideas to ensure understanding and buy‑in from team members, as well as diverse, time‑pressured professionals and senior executives, and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve objectives, especially in aligned approaches and or programme goals/outputs
• Extensive experience working collaboratively with diverse range of colleagues and stakeholders at the science‑policy interface in order to improve two‑way understanding and influence outcomes.
• Demonstration of proactively driving through change, including ability to manage multiple priorities across complex and diverse policy areas, maintain a proactive, collaborative and flexible attitude, and deal with fast changing environment and unforeseen challenges adopting a problem‑solving approach.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

Alongside your salary of £61,446, OFGEM contributes £17,800 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes: 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.