Salary
Period of appointment
Job description
Protecting Northern Ireland’s energy and water consumers today and tomorrow is what we do.
This is an exciting time to join us. We are expanding as an organisation to fully support Northern Ireland in meeting the challenges of climate change, the continued cost-of-living crisis and ensuring the continuity of energy and water supplies.
Electricity, gas and water are essential services that support all homes and businesses in Northern Ireland. As an economic regulator, it is our role to enable, incentivise and hold energy and water companies to account for providing the very best levels of service and price for consumers both now and in the future.
Head of Electricity Price Controls
Working within the Price Controls Directorate, the Head of Electricity Price Controls will be a part of the organisation’s Senior Management Team, contributing to the development of the wider organisation. The scope and volume of the Utility Regulator’s work continues to expand significantly as it supports the targets and aims within the Climate Change (Northern Ireland) Act 2022, and the Department for Economy’s Energy Strategy. The successful candidate will lead the delivery of our electricity price controls through the management, planning and delivery of these price controls, alongside responsibility for relevant core business functions, such as budget and people management.
General information
Northern Ireland continues to have an under-representation of women across STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) industries. We are proud to support women in STEM. We are an equal opportunity and ‘Disability Confident’ employer. As people with a disability and people from ethnic minority communities are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would welcome applications from these groups
We offer an attractive package including a competitive starting salary with stepped increases per annum, alongside a range of other benefits including hybrid working, NI Civil Service pension arrangements and 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after two years) and an additional 12 public and privilege days.
Contact us at recruitment@uregni.gov.uk if you would like to talk to someone about the work we do and what it's like working here.