Climate Change Specialist

Position type: Permanent

Job reference: 350737

No. Vacancies: 1

Location: Birmingham (B5 4UA) or London (E14 4HD) based with hybrid working

Salary: £36,918 - £44,000

Closing date: 05 May 2024 at 23:55

We are looking for a Climate Change Specialist to join our growing Environment Team. The team is focussed on delivering the environmental policy objectives of our strategy and engaging and collaborating with key environmental stakeholders.

This is a varied role that will draw upon a range of skills – from policy development and systems thinking, to project management and stakeholder relations. You will play a key role in the delivery of the environmental policy objectives of our strategy, by developing and implementing our approach to Climate Change mitigation and adaption.

Excellent communication skills, and an ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries and challenge the status quo are essential. You should also be comfortable working at pace in an agile environment. You will have an excellent understanding of environmental issues within the water sector and experience of Climate Change policy. You will need to be comfortable representing Ofwat and communicating Ofwat policy to environmental stakeholders including government officials, water companies and others. You will provide advice and make recommendations, ensuring Ofwat understands and can incorporate Climate Change policy into its work, proactively sharing skills and knowledge. 

Person Specification 

To be successful in this role you will need the below essential experience, skills and knowledge:

• Lead criterion: Academic and/or professional experience in Climate Change mitigation and adaptation.

• Up-to-date knowledge of Climate Change policy and programme responses.

• Proven experience in policy analysis and policy delivery.

• Experience of working on a programme of analysis and evidence gathering to support robust decision making and influencing on policy issues.

• Strong analytical, technical and research skills with the ability to cut through complexity.

• Experience of working flexibly and collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams to bring policy expertise and solutions to problems and deliver joined up strategic thinking.

• Strong communicator, able to effectively communicate complex issues to different audiences.

We’re Ofwat, the Water Services Regulation Authority – a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales.

As the economic regulator of water and wastewater companies in England and Wales, our role is to enable, incentivise and hold companies to account for providing the very best for customers, communities and the environment now and in the future. We also oversee the markets in the water sector to ensure they’re working for customers.

With us, your work matters, your voice is heard, and your impact is felt. Ours is a culture of trust, flexibility, autonomy, collaboration, and innovation. We all want positive change for water customers, the environment, and the future of water.

But for us, change is more than what happens on the outside – we’ve always pushed boundaries internally, too. From becoming the first Civil Service organisation to achieve ‘Smarter Working’ status, to gaining our prestigious ‘Smarter Working Maturity’ award, we’ve consistently demonstrated our commitment to embracing innovative ways of working. Our people do their best work when given freedom over where, when, and how they work. Which is why we trust our teams to balance meaningful collaboration in the office with the flexibility of working from home.

• Employer pension contributions of 28.97% (around £10,700 to £12,700 per annum for this role).

• 27.5 days leave (25 days annual leave + 2.5 days privilege leave) increasing to max 32.5 days with each year of service), plus bank holidays

• Access to exclusive discounts on a variety of goods and services, including retail outlets, theatre tickets, holidays, insurance, and a gym membership.

• Flexible working arrangements that suit your lifestyle.

• Fees paid for membership of relevant professional bodies.

• Up to 3 volunteering days per year.

• Generous shared parental leave and pay.

• Enhanced sick pay.

• Regular development opportunities.

• Health and wellbeing initiatives.

• Season ticket loan for home-to-office travel.

• Cycle-to-work scheme.