Governance Lead

Role Overview

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.

The National Energy System Operator (NESO) has been given an exciting new role of Regional Energy Strategic Planner (RESP) for GB. RESP will support coordinated development of the distribution energy system and enable long‑term investment to be made with confidence and ahead of need. The RESP will be developed to be "whole system", shaped by a strong place‑based understanding and coordinating development across multiple vectors (electricity, gas, and potentially heat, hydrogen, and so on).

RESP will ensure coherence between regional and national net‑zero ambitions/plans.

We are now recruiting for the team to lead and develop the RESP role. It’s a great opportunity to join us as we set out to help decarbonise the UK in a local community‑based way. As we continue our development of the RESP function, we will be establishing new governance forums, including Strategic Boards and working groups in our RESP regions and nations.

We will also stand up national governance to support the overall development of RESP, working with Ofgem and DESNZ. Included in this is how we assure our outputs, both through governance, but also through business‑as‑usual work. We are now recruiting for a Governance Lead to be part of this work. This role will sit within the Policy, Governance and Regulation team in RESP.

As a Governance Lead you will play a leading role in setting up a governance framework that works for Scotland and Wales as well as our nine English regions. You will apply your knowledge of governance, place‑based engagement and assurance to ensuring that our Governance process for RESP is fit for purpose and meets the needs of our customers.

This role can be based from Wokingham, Warwick or 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.

• Lead specific projects to deliver effective Governance across our RESP nations or regions, ensuring consistency and adherence to RESP's mandate for Governance.
• Identify and implement opportunities for RESP governance to provide wider benefit for other NESO activities, e.g. connections reform, SSEP.
• Ensure an effective interface between RESP regional governance and the national‑level governance being established as part of our other strategic energy planning activities.

We’re forging the path, and we know we can’t do it alone. That’s why we need visionary minds like yours to join us on this transformative journey. In this case, we’re looking for someone who:

In this case, we’re looking for someone who has experience in setting up governance structures. This work is already ongoing, including how they will be composed, as well as what decisions they will be making are currently set out in our RESP methodology consultation.

As such, we are looking for someone to take this work to the next level of detail. This will require a combination of strategic experience, i.e. looking at the abstract of how governance should function, as well as experience of what this looks like in practice, and a can‑do attitude to solve problems, try ideas out and work collaboratively with our stakeholders to deliver effective governance.

Experience of this can come from any sector, as we are interested mostly in experience of the capability itself. That being said, knowledge of the energy sector, as well as local / regional actors such as local authorities, is desirable.

A competitive salary between £55,000 – £65,000 per annum – dependent on experience and capability. As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on company performance, 26 days annual leave as standard and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

As we work towards…