Heat Strategic Options
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The Department brings together responsibilities for business, industrial strategy, science, innovation, energy, and climate change.
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- Business and enterprise: cementing the UK’s position as the best place in Europe to start and grow a business – by supporting local growth, entrepreneurs, and making it easier for businesses to resolve disputes quickly and easily.
- Competitiveness: developing a long-term industrial strategy, supporting competitive markets, cutting red tape and protecting intellectual property.
- Science and innovation: ensuring that the UK is the best place in Europe to innovate, maintaining our world-leading research and science base to drive growth and productivity while reforming the system to maximise value from our investments.
- Labour markets: helping Britain move to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society, tackling illegal practices in the workplace, implementing reform of trade union law, and dealing with abuse of the minimum wage.
- A reliable and resilient energy system: ensuring security of energy supply that families and businesses can rely on, now and in the future. This includes working across the oil, gas and electricity sectors to make sure the UK has a well-functioning, competitive and resilient energy system, and sufficient capacity to meet the needs of energy users in the years ahead.
- Energy bills: keeping bills as low as possible for hard-working families and businesses.
- International climate change and cost-effective carbon reduction at home: taking action on climate change alongside international partners to safeguard our long-term economic and national security. And meeting our national carbon target of at least an 80% emissions reduction by 2050 through efficient procurement of low carbon generation and otherwise in ways that keeps the cost of action as low as possible, to ensure value for money for our families and businesses.
- UK energy legacy: managing the legacy of our energy industries sustainably and responsibly. This means discharging legal liabilities effectively and managing the security risks from the legacies of our nuclear and coal industries, and other energy liabilities.
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Heat is a fundamental part of our energy system. Around a third of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions result from heating and cooling buildings and using heat for industrial processes. The transition to a low carbon heating future will be complex and challenging and affect energy consumers and stakeholders across the UK. We will need to consider the potential for decarbonising the gas grid, against other strategic options for heat. The gas grid is a major piece of national infrastructure, and its future is one of the most important legacy decisions for this parliament.
The Heat Strategic Options Project (HSOP) aims to develop the policies that will be needed to put the UK on the lowest cost path to heat decarbonisation. Following completion of scoping and planning the project first phase is initiating now and is expected to complete in Summer 2018.
We are seeking to recruit an SEO with programme and project management skills to lead the project management function. The postholder will work at the project level with G6 Team Leaders and the Project Director to:
• Implement and improve project products and processes in line with the BEIS Project Delivery framework including Project Initiation Document, Business Cases, Benefits Profile, Project Plan, Highlight Report, Risk Register, Issues Register, Change Control Log, Lessons Learned Log, Dependency Log, Quality Assurance plan.
• Promote and embed BEIS Project Delivery best practice in the team's ways of working.
• Lead production of project progress and highlight reports, departmental progress reports, assurance reports, gateway reviews and any other approvals or governance requirements.
At Workstream level, the postholder will work with Workstream Leads to ensure:
• Workstreams maintain and implement credible plans and thereafter deliver to agreed time, cost and quality, with early warning of slippage.
• Appropriate governance and management products are created and maintained for each
Workstream (e.g. Work Package Plans)
• Risks and Issues are promptly identified, allocated and are actively being managed and escalated as necessary to Project Board or Programme Board.
• timely reporting of progress, risks and issues in accordance with agreed practices.
The role will also supporting and potentially leading work on internal stakeholder engagement
Andy Davey (0300 068 6605) or Richard Leyland (0300 068 5132)
Closing date - 9 January 2017 at 23:55pm
09/01/2017, 23:55 hours
This Vacancy is closed to applications.