Energy Strategy Advisor

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. We operate in an increasingly dynamic international environment, with a range of forces rapidly reshaping the global economy.

To meet this challenge, the Government launched a new Modern Industrial Strategy on 23 June 2025. Energy has been identified as a priority issue within the Industrial Strategy programme, and a series of measures are being delivered to reduce electricity costs, accelerate grid connections, and promote industrial decarbonisation.

As an Energy Strategy Advisor within the Industrial Energy Unit, you will work as part of a small, ambitious strategy team to ensure that future energy policy continues to deliver for UK business, driving investment and growth. You will be working alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues developing and delivering new business support policies including AI Growth Zones, British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme, and Corporate Power Purchase Agreements.

This is an exciting and central role working in a fast-paced and high-profile area to drive policy outcomes that are central to the UK’s growth ambitions. The role holder will play a central role in articulating the Department’s strategic priorities across energy domains, assessing the combined effectiveness of multiple policies and initiatives and originating and incubating new policy ideas in a fast-moving and complex environment.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Support in the development and delivery of DBT’s strategic priorities across the energy domain.
• Support on the origination and incubation of new policy ideas, taking the lead on discrete measures where needed, to ensure energy policy is driving impact for UK businesses.
• Build effective relationships across HMG Departments, aligning incentives and influencing policy.
• Support coordination and governance across DBT energy interests, driving coherence and ensuring initiative are complementary.