Job Description

Details

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Reference number

424378

Salary

34,123 - 48,561
National 34,123-45,831, London 36,824-48,561


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A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer
Level 2A

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

OFGEM - Retail - Wholesale Market Conduct

Type of role

Investigation


Operational Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations - Cardiff, Glasgow, or London, especially welcoming applications from people based in Cardiff and Glasgow

About the job

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Job summary

Ofgem is Great Britain's independent energy regulator. Our primary responsibility is to protect energy consumers, especially the most vulnerable, while at the same time working with government, industry and consumer groups to deliver a clean, more affordable and secure net-zero energy system at the lowest cost to consumers and drive economic growth.


We're recruiting a Compliance Investigator - Wholesale Market Conduct to join our Market Oversight and Enforcement directorate. The Wholesale Market Conduct team's functions include monitoring the markets for potential breaches of REMIT (Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency) and monitoring compliance with certain generation licence conditions. This is a unique opportunity to help safeguard the integrity and transparency of Britain's wholesale gas and electricity markets, ensuring that they work effectively for consumers.


In this role, you'll focus on proactive compliance work outside of formal investigations. You'll take creative approaches to complex regulatory challenges, engaging directly with market participants, brokers, and exchanges to promote best practices and secure commitments to improve compliance.


You'll contribute to the development and delivery of compliance strategies, identify non-compliance through structured reviews of trading behaviours and market data, and facilitate regular dialogue with stakeholders to clarify regulatory expectations. Your insights will help shape Ofgem's approach to market oversight and drive improvements in market behaviour.


We're looking for someone with a strong understanding of wholesale energy markets or trading experience in energy, commodities, or equities. You'll have excellent stakeholder engagement skills and be skilled at interpreting complex legislation and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-expert audiences. Initiative, creativity and autonomy are key to success in this role.


Experience in analysing complex data and using tools like Python or SQL is desirable, but not essential. You'll work closely with internal teams across policy, legal, and market insights, as well as external partners including the National Energy System Operator, the Financial Conduct Authority and European regulatory bodies.


Join us at Ofgem, where your skills and passion can make a real impact!

Job description

The Wholesale Market Conduct team promotes and protects the integrity and transparency of wholesale gas and electricity markets so that they work for GB consumers. The team's major functions include:

Monitoring the markets for potential breaches of REMIT (Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency), which includes prohibitions on market manipulation and insider trading, and certain generation licence conditions such as Transmission Constraint Licence Condition (TCLC) and Inflexible Offer Licence Condition (IOLC). Taking action, including enforcement where necessary, to address breaches. This requires understanding market fundamentals and complex trading strategies, and using qualitative and quantitative analysis to support investigations.

This role covers will focus on action we can take to improve compliance with regulation outside of an investigation context and will involve taking creative approaches to solving complex issues. You will work with on a variety of non-compliance issues, engaging with market participants and persons professionally arranging transactions (ie brokers and exchanges) to address concerns and secure commitments to improve compliance practises.


You will work with colleagues in other parts of Ofgem, including policy and legal teams. You will engage with Ofgem's stakeholders such as National Energy System Operator, the Financial Conduct Authority, Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) and other national regulatory agencies (NRAs) in Europe, as well as gas and electricity stakeholders.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

Contribute to the development and delivery of compliance strategies. Identify non-compliance through structured reviews of market monitoring practices and policies, trading behaviours and market data, and communicate findings to the team and senior management. Facilitate regular dialogue with brokers and exchanges to clarify regulatory expectations. Engage with market participants to address concerns and secure commitments to improve compliance practices. Monitor the impact of engagement activities, using qualitative and quantitative metrics to assess improvements in market behaviour.

Key Stakeholder Relationships

Internal

Wholesale Market Oversight and International portfolio, including the team providing insights on wholesale gas and electricity markets developments Policy teams such as Electricity Security and Market Management and ESO Regulation teams Legal teams

External

National Energy System Operator Energy brokers and exchanges Electricity generators, gas shippers and wholesale market traders UK and EU institutional stakeholders such as DESNZ, the FCA, ACER and other National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs).

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

Sector knowledge: An understanding of the operation of wholesale energy markets and/or experience of trading (energy, commodities or equities etc)

(LEAD CRITERIA)

Strong stakeholder engagement skills. Experience in engaging with stakeholders to promote compliance, resolve complex issues, and secure commitments to improve practices. Experience of interpreting and applying complex legislation, regulation, rules and processes to deliver effective compliance action. Excellent written and verbal communication skills that effectively communicate complex issues to non-expert audiences. Demonstrated ability to take initiative, think creatively and work independently.

Desirable Criteria:

Experience in analysing complex quantitative and qualitative data and evidence. Experience using Python or SQL programming languages to manage large datasets and produce compelling analytical outputs.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:


Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions Working Together

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 34,123, OFGEM contributes 9,885 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; Hybrid working, flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
When you press the 'Apply now' button, you will be directed to a Civil Service test -

guidance for this can be found here

Civil Service online tests - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

. Upon passing the test, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.


You will then be asked to

provide a 1250 word 'personal statement' evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable skills and capabilities listed in the role profile

. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable skills and capabilities.


The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application or used during interview, including your CV and any statements or examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Ofgem takes any incidences of cheating very seriously. Please ensure all examples provided are of your own experience. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant applications will be withdrawn from the process. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.


Please refer to Civil Service candidate advice on the acceptable use of artificial intelligence within the recruitment and selection process - Artificial intelligence and recruitment , Civil Service Careers


The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [ https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Lucy Dowding Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

* Email : recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk