Deputy Director Hydrogen Strategy & Portfolio

As Deputy Director, Hydrogen Strategy & Portfolio Delivery, you will be expected to:Lead a team of 40-45 FTE and directly line manage 3-4 Grade 6s, building and maintaining strong relationships with other senior leaders and teams across HICC and DESNZ, wider government and with key external stakeholders. You will regularly represent HICC and its work in meetings with Ministers, senior departmental leadership and with senior external stakeholders, including on behalf of the HICC Co-Directors and EIG DG.Oversee and ensure the implementation of the UK Hydrogen Strategy and its UK Hydrogen Economy Roadmap, including through publishing twice-yearly delivery progress updates and regular internal reporting of progress against commitments and deliverables set out in the 2021 Hydrogen Strategy, 2022 British Energy Security Strategy and 2023 Powering Up Britain Plan. Lead work to refine and update the strategy, to keep pace with internal and external developments, and ensure UK retains its place in the leading pack for hydrogen internationally.Oversee the secretariat for the Hydrogen Delivery Council, co-chaired by Departmental ministers and a senior industry representative. Maintain oversight and drive delivery of the Councils two-year work plan across its six working groups.Oversee the hydrogen briefing hub, which manages a significant volume of briefing and correspondence on hydrogen to an exceptionally high standard and to time.Manage strategic communications and engagement for the HICC Directorate, including through supporting major publications and announcements over the course of the year.Oversee governance of the hydrogen sub-portfolio, including through managing delivery of regular high-quality DG and Director level governance boards and supporting documents. You will ensure that governance processes and structures are both proportionate and robust, and evolve as needed over the delivery life cycle of HICCs hydrogen policy and projects.Oversee planning and risk management for the hydrogen sub-portfolio, across a complex and interdependent set of hydrogen programmes and projects ensuring robust yet proportionate processes are in place to support senior decision-making and effective delivery, while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy or process.Oversee all finance and resource management for HICC Directorate, including management of contracts with external advisors, staff resource and budget management, and leading on all spending-related activity including business planning and spending review processes.Oversee the HICC Project Management Office (PMO) which provides high-quality PMO support to policy and project delivery teams across HICC. This includes responsibility for planning, scheduling, risk and issue management, dependency management, resource management, assurance, benefits management, reporting and governance across HICC projects and programmes, in line with HMG project delivery frameworks and standards including the Project Delivery Functional Standard.The exact nature and remit of the role(s) may change slightly to take account of business need.