European Frameworks Lead - NESO

About the role

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.

We have 3 opportunities, a European Frameworks Lead
, European Frameworks Senior Lead and a Senior Development Lead
. In all positions you will play a crucial role in enhancing coordination and strategic initiatives within the NESO European sector, enabling the transition to net zero. Acting as an expert around GB and European markets and frameworks, you will collaborate and coordinate across NESO and with our EU counterparts to ensure policy and existing framework alignment, proactively identify and mitigate issues, ensure compliance with EU Retained Law, promote interconnector harmonisation and transparency, and provide support to ensure changes to GB and EU markets, including NESO proposals, fairly represent interconnector impacts and the needs of the GB system.

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.

National Energy System Operator’s (NESO) mission is to facilitate the decarbonisation of Great Britain’s energy network and ensure the delivery of reliable, affordable, and clean electricity for consumers. We work with stakeholders across the whole energy industry to plan for future network needs, using a wider adoption of technology and changes in consumer behaviour, as well as ensuring we have the right markets, networks, and frameworks in place, to transform the way we operate tomorrow.

Join us, and let’s energise progress. energy, our future, together.

In Autumn of 2024, the ESO transitioned to National Energy System Operator, or NESO for short. Previously denoted as the Future System Operator (or FSO), the new National Energy System Operator is the independent body responsible for planning Great Britain’s electricity and gas networks and operating the electricity system. The ESO, including all of its existing roles, are now at the heart of the new National Energy System Operator.

As NESO, we will build on our existing roles, capabilities, and ways of working significantly to create an organisation the energy system and its users’ need. Our new capabilities will enable us to look across vectors, including electricity, natural gas and hydrogen, and crucially consider the trade-offs between them. The organisation is set up as a public corporation with its own Board of independent directors, with complete operational independence from government, the regulator and any and all commercial interest.

As was the ESO, NESO will be licenced and regulated by Ofgem through price control agreements and obligated to identify optimal solutions to system operations and planning in the most sustainable, affordable and secure way for all.

• Assist the business with short- and medium-term implementation changes and identify issues that require policy positions relating to cross border activities.
• Accelerate progress by driving forward the harmonisation and transparency of interconnector arrangements to ensure clarity on expectations for new and existing interconnectors.
• Build trust through proactively engaging with internal and external stakeholders to understand the impact of changes to cross border markets and policies and using this to help drive change where needed.
• Be curious through championing European best practice across NESO whilst providing support through the code modification, derogation, and contracts process as required.
• Lead internal working groups to innovate and enhance processes and policies relating to GB/EU electricity markets.
• Monitor and impact-assess changes to EU law and EU codes and work with stakeholders to mitigate risks, including leading engagement with GB and international stakeholders.
• Assist the business with compliance of…