Chief Operating Officer

As our new Chief Operating Officer and a member of the DESNZ Executive Committee, you'll be central to shaping the future of the Department and supporting the delivery of the Secretary of State's key priorities: making energy more affordable, creating good jobs through the clean power programme, and ensuring every community benefits from the clean energy transition.

We are at a pivotal moment for DESNZ and the COO will need to lead the department through a period of significant organisational transformation and delivery challenges, changing and radically improving how we operate and function to deliver our historic Spending Review settlement and meet the ambitions of our Clean Energy Superpower Mission.

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)

For more information please refer to the Candidate Brief attached below.

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