Senior Analyst

Job summary

Ofgem is working at the forefront of the fight to combat unfair pricing and protect millions of households, shaping the policies that ensure consumers pay a fair price for their energy. We’re looking for a Senior Analyst to join us and help drive the analytical and policy thinking behind one of the most high-profile protections in the UK energy market.

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 role with the chance to play a leading part in shaping the future of the energy price cap and wider price protection policy. This is an opportunity to work on nationally significant policy that directly impacts around 22 million consumers, ensuring fairness in a rapidly evolving market. You’ll contribute to complex, high-profile decisions that sit at the centre of public and political focus.

Working within the Retail Price Cap Policy team, you’ll help evolve how the cap responds to market developments while maintaining strong consumer protection. You’ll operate across analytical and policy challenges, contributing to the ongoing design of price protections that balance affordability, competition and sustainability.

This role offers the chance to influence major policy decisions through robust analysis and strategic insight. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across Ofgem, government and industry, helping shape thinking in an area that is critical to consumer outcomes and market stability.

We’re looking for someone with strong analytical and policy capabilities, experience working with complex data and the ability to communicate insights clearly and effectively. You’ll be comfortable leading workstreams, managing competing priorities and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.

In return, you’ll join a collaborative and high-impact team working on one of the most visible and important areas of energy policy. You’ll contribute to decisions that directly affect consumers across Great Britain, while operating in a fast-paced environment where your work has real and immediate impact.

We have a critical purpose to advance price protection policy. Join us in combating unfair pricing and ensuring energy markets deliver fair outcomes for consumers across Great Britain.

Read on and find out more.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and evidencing changes to price cap policy;
• Ensuring policy recommendations are based on robust and quality assured analysis;
• Communicating policy proposals to internal and external stakeholders;
• Coordinating / managing a team of policy analysts to ensure the completion of team deliverables on time;
• Identify interdependencies and working collaboratively with other experts across Ofgem. Engaging with other policy teams and legal advisors.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Produce high quality internal working papers to support senior managements decisions; and also produce high quality public documents such as consultations and decision papers;
• Build, oversee and quality assure analysis and analytical models in support of policy development;
• Communicate, both written and verbally, analytical findings, policy recommendations and policy risks to senior decision makers at various governance fora;
• Respond to ad hoc and cross cutting requests by providing expert, authoritative, impartial and accurate information and analysis of the price cap.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Analytical skills – Strong quantitative skills using a range of methods and demonstrable experience of conducting complex analysis / modelling; including strong evidence of applying economics and competition analysis (including financial analysis) to relevant markets. (Lead Criteria)
• Policy skills – policy analysis and policy writing skills with demonstrable application of those skills to policy development, consultation, decision-making processes and implementation.
• Communication skills – the ability to communicate complex and often technical issues clearly and effectively with both experts and non-experts.
• Project and management skills – Evidence of shaping and leading analytical work programmes that support policy decisions, and successful management of major projects with fixed deadlines. This includes proactively managing your own work independently with minimal supervision and setting direction for junior colleagues.
• Stakeholder management skills - ability to communicate credibly and effectively with stakeholders at all levels as part of a targeted stakeholder management strategy.

Behaviours

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

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

• You will be asked to prepare a presentation at interview. Full details of the presentation topic will be included in your invitation to interview.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,452, OFGEM contributes £14,326 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 an anonymous copy of your CV.

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. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.

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].

At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator. Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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.

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