Legal Advisor – Electricity Charging
- Employer
- Ofgem
- Location
- Canary Wharf, London (Greater)
- Salary
- £46,250 - £57,975
- Closing date
- 20 Feb 2019
Job Details
Legal Advisor – Electricity Charging
London, Canary Wharf: £46,250 - £57,975
Ofgem is committed to making a positive difference for energy consumers through effective regulation of the market and close working with suppliers to ensure sustainable energy for consumers and businesses in the UK.
We are looking for a UK-qualified solicitor, barrister or advocate (or an overseas professionally qualified lawyer prepared to attain QLTA) with experience of electricity charging models and a desire to build their subject matter expertise in a technical marketplace. Providing advice to our Networks and System Division, you will be involved in high profile policy developments and code reviews at the cutting-edge of energy regulation. Engaging with both contentious and non-contentious workstreams, the projects you are involved in will be varied but your focus will be singular: to deliver expert legal advice that enables Ofgem to ensure fairness in charging arrangements, to minimise risk and to plan ahead for changes in the energy landscape.
Specific skills and capabilities:
Essential:
- Strong understanding of how the GB electricity system currently works (at both transmission network level and distribution network level) and the current/future challenges facing the GB electricity system, including network-charging arrangements.
- Significant experience in advising on GB energy code modification.
- Significant experience in advising on regulatory public law issues.
- Significant experience in public law litigation proceedings, to include either judicial review proceedings or Competition and Markets Authority appeals.
- The ability to give timely, risk-based, expert legal advice that facilitates practical solutions.
- Strong team player, capable of working collaboratively and confidently with others, but who is also comfortable working independently
- 2-3 years PQE, which includes experience in an in-house legal team
- Qualified to practice as a solicitor, barrister or advocate in the UK or an overseas professionally qualified lawyer-demonstrating evidence of preparedness to sit the QLTA on appointment if required.
Desirable:
- Good understanding of the challenges of working in the public service and the role of the regulator
- Demonstrates the ability to manage projects
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which includes:
- Up to 30 days’ annual leave
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements, which include a valuable range of benefits
- Flexible working hours and family friendly policies
- Restaurant and subsidised gym
- Interest free season ticket loan.
To apply, please go to: https://ofgem.oftjobs.co.uk
Closing date: 20th February 2019
Ofgem is an equal opportunities employer. Protecting consumers and powering the future of the energy debate.
Company
Ofgem
Ofgem is the Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets. Protecting consumers is our first priority. We do this by promoting competition, wherever appropriate, and regulating the monopoly companies which run the gas and electricity networks. The interests of gas an electricity consumers are their interests taken as a whole, including their interests in the reduction of greenhouse gases and in the security of the supply of gas and electricity to them.
Other priorities and influences include:
- helping to secure Britain's energy supplies by promoting competitive gas and electricity markets - and regulating them so that there is adequate investment in the networks, and
- contributing to the drive to curb climate change and other work aimed at sustainable development by, for example:
- helping the gas and electricity industries to achieve environmental improvements as efficiently as possible; and
- taking account of the needs of vulnerable customers, particularly older people, those with disabilities and those on low incomes.
Ofgem is an equal opportunities employer.
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