Clean Heat Lead

The Waste to Value and Clean Heat Team sits within the Construction, Infrastructure and Energy Cluster in Business Group. We support investment, growth and exports in a range of waste to value and clean heat technologies. Our aim is to ensure that waste to value and clean heat technologies deliver economic growth as these sectors grow in value across the UK economy. The team is responsible for supporting a wide range of green industries including: Energy Efficiency, Energy from Waste, Heat Networks, Heat Pumps, Plastic Recycling and Sustainable Aviation Fuels. We are the department's experts in these sectors. Our work is central to supporting the government's net zero ambitions, including the warm homes plan, through driving the delivery of investment into these sectors developing both UK capability/capacity and supply chains. We are a mixed team of experienced civil servants and industry specialists. The team has a broad remit and is central to providing knowledge and expertise to investors, DBT teams, and overseas colleagues navigating the UK landscape. We also support policy development across Whitehall through extensive engagement with policy teams across government aiming to shape and influence the investment environment in pursuit of growth. The team is seeking a talented and ambitious individual to lead on the clean heat and energy efficiency sectors for the department. The postholder will need to be comfortable autonomously working at pace, have an ability to work closely and diplomatically with multiple stakeholders to develop and deliver priority projects, and have the ability to navigate complex and nuanced interactions between policy drivers. DBT recognises and promotes an environment that welcomes and values diverse backgrounds, thinking, skills and experience. Having an inclusive organisation, where people are able to bring their 'whole selves' to work, enables everyone fulfil their potential and to produce their best work. We promote and encourage a range of flexible working patterns enabling staff to balance home and work responsibilities. We are looking for a candidate to lead on the clean heat - primarily heat networks and heat pumps - and energy efficiency sectors for DBT to deliver objectives including investment delivery and policy influencing to maximise the growth of these sectors in the UK. As part of your role, you can expect to:

• Managing a pipeline of existing investment projects across clean heat, working with investors in support of their projects as well as working to identify and support new investors/opportunities.
• Build and manage relationships with UK and overseas companies looking to invest in the UK at senior levels, to encourage and support inward investment projects, including as account manager for a range of our biggest accounts.
• Develop evidence-based analysis of the commercial and regulatory barriers that shape the investment environment, using this to spot opportunities to improve the investment proposition
• Collaborate and influence within DBT and across Whitehall to address the underpinning policies, barriers and enablers that shape the investment environment for clean heat. You will work with others to build consensus, find routes to influence and develop carefully balanced recommendations, with a focus on ensuring growth in UK capability creates jobs and enhances the export offer.
• Supporting UK companies looking to access export opportunities in overseas markets, by ensuring the department's export promotion teams have expert and up to date knowledge of UK capability and providing support where appropriate.
• Maintaining an awareness of the global opportunity in the sectors and using this information to respond to emerging opportunities and/or changes in circumstances across different markets.