About the role

ADE: Demand is recruiting for a Policy Officer or Manager (maternity cover), with a specialist focus on industrial and non-domestic energy. Industrial decarbonisation is one of the most challenging and exciting areas of the UK’s efforts to address climate change. You will work across the UK’s pioneering efforts to create a new hydrogen network system for industrial clusters, pushing for greater clarity and ambition for industrial sites dispersed outside of those clusters and for a continued focus on industrial energy efficiency through technologies such as Combined Heat and Power.

With a focus on industrial energy, you will work with industrial companies, Government and others to secure meaningful changes in policy and regulation that support decarbonisation of British industry.

As part of the broader policy team and the wider ADE: Demand team, you will work on diverse projects including original research to support our policy positions and supporting our political and press engagement.

Responsibilities

• Driving forward our strategic priorities for industrial energy, including through report and position paper writing, managing stakeholder relationships and running workshops, collaborating with other similarly situated organisations
• Developing and maintaining expertise in industrial energy and the activities of ADE: Demand’s industrial membership
• Drafting briefings and consultations
• Managing our Industrial Forum, working closely with the Industrial Forum Chair
• Managing projects with multiple stakeholders
• Developing and maintaining relationships across Government and other key stakeholders
• Communicating our work and the interests of our members confidently in public forums and in private meetings with Government and others
• Supporting the broader work of ADE: Demand and in particular, press and parliamentary work and work with potential members

Person specification

Essential:

• Good academic qualifications or substantial work experience in the field;
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills and ability to communicate to a wide variety of audiences; and
• Ability to work well, and independently in a small team environment.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of industrial policy, energy policy, or both.
• Experience of working in a public policy environment.