Job Description

Company Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world\'s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.

UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow\'s power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative."

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family friendly policies.
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders,
• Emergency paid leave, Generous annual leave allowance (30.5 days) increased with length of service,
• Wide range of career development opportunities
• A vibrant culture committed to being fully inclusive

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.



Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Executive Officer, you will play a pivotal role in policy development and sponsorship of major programmes reporting into senior levels in government.

What will you be responsible for

• Developing cross-company initiatives and special projects that are critical to the business on behalf of the Executive team.
• Briefing the Executive Directors on key issues and emerging problems, anticipating areas of scrutiny, highlighting issues and potential solutions to enable effective outcomes.
• Acting as secretariat for an Executive or Board level sub-committee to help enable effective decisions and provide assurance that governance activities are executed at the executive level.
• Ensuring the delivery of equality, diversity and inclusion commitments
• Assisting the Directors in guiding major planning exercises, such as crisis management planning and incidents, resource planning, and business planning.
• Establishing and developing a wide-ranging network within the organisation to ensure an effective information flow to and from the Directorate.
• Establishing and developing a strategic network outside the Authority linking to relevant stakeholders (eg. government, research councils, other PSRE\'s and ALB\'s)
• Guiding on sponsorship of programmes within UKAEA or its subsidiaries. Developing governance arrangements to assure the CEO of the probity of the programme/subsidiary.

You should be able to deal with rapidly changing priorities.

Qualifications

Essential skills, experience and competence required

• Proficient in writing strategy, policy, management, and business documents
• Effective communication in diverse, multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural environments; adept at constructive challenges
• Strong networking abilities, skilled at nurturing stakeholder relationships for organizational gains
• Outstanding communication skills encompassing writing, speech, and social media, capable of engaging with senior personnel and negotiation
• Solid numeracy, scientific proficiency; skilled at researching and discerning crucial information for prompt decision-making; meticulous attention to detail
• Sound grasp of organizational mission, goals, and delivery aspects

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our \'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion\' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.

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