Investment Portfolio Officer (Energy Projects

Position: Investment Portfolio Officer (Energy Projects)
Job Title:

Investment Portfolio Officer (Energy Projects)

Location:

Aberdeen or Edinburgh

Reporting to:
Head of Investment Portfolio Management

Number of Roles Available: 1

Company Overview:

Join Great British Energy and be part of powering the UK's Clean Energy Future.

At GBE, we're not just building an energy company - we're shaping the future of the UK's energy landscape.

Our mission is clear:

* Drive clean energy deployment across the UK as a strategic developer, investor, and owner of renewable projects

* Deliver benefits for communities and taxpayers, ensuring the clean energy transition creates jobs, boosts local economies, and increases public ownership

* We focus on innovation, sustainability, and impact, working on projects that matter - from large-scale national renewable investments to empowering local and community energy initiatives.

Joining GBE means

* Purpose-driven work Be part of a national effort to accelerate the clean energy transition

* Career growth Opportunities to develop expertise in cutting-edge energy technologies and strategic investment

* Collaboration and flexibility Work with passionate professionals in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment

About the Role:

The Project Portfolio Officer (Energy Projects) will lead the development and operation of GBE's energy-project investment monitoring and portfolio stewardship capability. The role will be accountable for establishing and maintaining the standards, governance, controls and quality assurance arrangements through which GBE monitors the performance, risk and value of its energy-project investments after financial close. The postholder will act as GBE's portfolio management subject-matter lead for energy-project investments, working across Investment, Finance, Risk, Legal, Strategy and Delivery teams to ensure consistent and decision-useful oversight of investments throughout construction, operation, intervention and exit.

The postholder will own the energy-project portfolio monitoring framework and ensure that project performance is assessed consistently against approved investment cases, conditions of GBE's finance, contractual rights, strategic objectives and GBE's risk appetite. They will provide technical leadership on the interpretation of portfolio information, challenge the quality and completeness of monitoring outputs, and recommend escalation or intervention where required. This role will have a specific focus on GBE's investments in energy projects, including project finance, joint venture, development, construction, operational and asset-backed investments across GBE's energy deployment portfolio.

Key Responsibilities:

* Lead the monitoring of GBE's individual energy-project investments and the wider portfolio against approved investment cases, conditions of GBE's finance, agreed milestones, strategic objectives, risk appetite and expected financial and strategic outcomes.

* Maintain portfolio records, trackers, action logs, reporting packs and governance documentation, ensuring a clear and auditable evidence base for portfolio assessments, risk ratings, interventions and recommendations. Lead quality assurance of material energy-project portfolio information, challenging the completeness, accuracy and consistency of financial, delivery, risk, governance and operational reporting.

* Provide authoritative portfolio advice and challenge on investment opportunities being considered, including portfolio risk implications and future monitoring and governance requirements.

* Own the preparation and quality assurance of regular reporting, briefings and recommendations for the Investment Committee, Executive Investment Forum, senior management, the Board and shareholder representatives where required. Coordinate inputs from investment verticals, Finance, Legal, and Risk to ensure portfolio reporting is joined-up, consistent and decision-useful.

* Act as Board Observer in GBE investees, ensuring that there is effective reporting of relevant investee board-level information into GBE's understanding of the risks in each investee and identifying emerging issues and risks to GBE's investment.

* Identify, assess and escalate…