Cyber Delivery Lead

Job summary

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Ofgem is at the forefront of the fight to strengthen cyber resilience across Britain’s energy system, driving the secure, ethical and innovative use of digital technologies in the transition to Net Zero. We’re looking for a Cyber Delivery Lead to join us and power the successful delivery of our cyber strategy and policy ambitions.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

We’re offering a permanent opportunity within our Cyber Regulation and Artificial Intelligence Directorate at a pivotal time for cyber policy and regulatory reform. This is a newly established role, where you’ll help embed strong delivery foundations across both strategy and policy activity. You’ll operate in a fast-moving, high-profile environment where effective project management and governance are critical to achieving successful outcomes.

You’ll bring clarity, structure and momentum to complex programmes of work. Working across multidisciplinary teams, you’ll enable confident decision-making, strengthen risk management and ensure milestones are met with pace and precision. This is the ideal role for someone who champions delivery excellence and sees governance as a strategic enabler of impact.

We’re looking for someone with proven experience of delivering complex projects or programmes in a policy or legislative environment, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate and align diverse teams. You’ll bring sound judgement in risk management, planning and resource forecasting, alongside the confidence to influence stakeholders and drive accountability in a collaborative setting.

In return, you’ll join a mission-led, expert directorate that is recognised as a leader in cyber regulation. We offer hybrid working, generous civil service pension and leave benefits, and the opportunity to shape delivery at the heart of one of the most important public policy missions of our time.

We have a critical purpose to drive cyber resilience across the energy sector and its clean transition, ensuring digital and operational technologies are secure, ethical and fit for a Net Zero future. In this role, you will enable that purpose by strengthening delivery capability, embedding effective governance and ensuring our cyber strategy translates into tangible, high-quality outcomes.

Read on and find out more.

Job description

• Establish and manage effective project management tools for the delivery of programme and project work in the Cyber Policy portfolio, which includes a Cyber Strategy and a Cyber Policy team, to ensure timely arrival at committed milestones.
• Work with team leads and workstream leads to drive clarity, alignment and delivery.
• Shape, maintain and communicate clear delivery roadmaps and associated reporting to the directorate including monthly progress.
• Embed continuous improvement across teams and processes to enable high-performing, collaborative delivery.
• Proactively surface and resolve project delivery risks, issues and barriers.
• Ensure robust governance, assurance and delivery accountability.
• Lead on a cross-cutting activity to support the benefit of the wider Directorate, e.g. supporting the profession or developing new tools and capabilities.
• Continue your professional development whilst at Ofgem to enable you to grow and deliver more.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Experience in delivering complex projects or programmes in a policy and/or legislative environment [LEAD]
• Strong interpersonal skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to manage and motivate project teams [LEAD]
• Experience in programme or project risk management
• Project planning, resource planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Excellent IT knowledge, including experience of basic MS Office applications, MS Project and an ability to learn and adapt to new tools & techniques, e.g. Azure DevOps

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be required to complete a presentation at interview stage. Further details will be disclosed in your invitation to interview.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £47,895, OFGEM contributes £13,875 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), and upload a copy of your CV anonymising all details where necessary.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Lewis Buckley
• Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of these Recruitment Principles.

In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.

Attachments

Cyber Delivery Lead, Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 620kB)Cyber Delivery Lead, Role Profile Opens in new window (pdf, 133kB)Terms and Conditions April 2025 Opens in new window (pdf, 366kB)