This programme has been designed to support people who have had a career break or are trying to transfer their skills in to a new sector or one they used to work in. We know that any gap in work experience or a move away from a sector or skill set makes it very hard to return or join through standard recruitment channels.

The roles in this programme tend to run on a 12 week placement with a view to securing a permanent role at the end of that period. Although it’s not guaranteed, 96% of our candidates who join the programme go on to secure permanent roles with their host organisation.

As a candidate working with STEM Returners you have access to free CV writing and Interview coaching and if you are successful in securing the role you’ll get access to coaching and mentoring programme to help you thrive in the role.

If you meet the criteria for this role but are unsure if you are eligible for the programme, we encourage you to make an application.

Job Purpose

NGET is at the heart of the UK energy system, supporting the delivery of the Government’s net zero ambitions while maintaining the highest standards of energy security and reliability. This requires the coordinated, efficient, and timely upgrade and expansion of the transmission network to connect new renewable generation and meet future demand growth.

The Regional Strategy & Stakeholder Lead is a multi focused role providing leadership across regional network strategy and stakeholder engagement. The role ensures long term investment and development decisions are aligned and coordinated through a strong understanding of regional needs, external perspectives, and wider system context.
Working closely with Corporate & External Affairs and the Customer Relationship team, the role leads targeted regional engagement, gathering strategic insight while clearly communicating the future network narrative. Stakeholder perspectives are systematically captured, synthesised, and fed back into strategy and development activities, strengthening the alignment between regional plans, customer needs, and wider system outcomes.
Through effective stakeholder leadership, the role ensures regional strategies are robust, credible, and socially and economically informed, supporting NGET’s long term outcomes and evidencing effective whole system

Key Accountabilities

• Act as a primary point of contact for complex or sensitive stakeholder issues relating to the regions you cover
• Lead the development and operation of regional stakeholder engagement approaches, ensuring feedback, insight, and evidence are systematically captured, analysed, and used to inform regional strategy and network development decisions.
• Coordinate and chair internal and external regional workshops to align stakeholders around long term network needs, investment priorities, and strategic options.
• Represent NGET at senior external forums and bilateral engagements, including RESP (NESO), Ofgem, Combined Authorities, DNOs, customers, and wider industry bodies.
• Maintain strong awareness of whole system developments, policy change, and industry thinking, using research and insight to inform and shape regional strategies.
• Lead coordination activities associated with the Regional Partners transformation, acting as the link between regional planning, external engagement, and internal delivery teams.
• Support the development and ongoing refinement of regional strategies by ensuring stakeholder perspectives, assumptions, and external constraints are visible and reflected.
• Work collaboratively across Electricity Transmission, Customer Network Development, Regulation, and Corporate Affairs to ensure consistent messaging and joined up regional outcomes.
• Ownership of an external facing platform (Future Network Blueprints) that explain future network needs, trade offs, and implications to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Highlight emerging regional issues, sensitivities, or uncertainties arising from stakeholder engagement, enabling timely consideration within strategy and development activities.

Knowledge, Experience and Technical Know How

Interpersonal, Supervisory or Management

• Proven ability to lead and influence senior stakeholders, internally and externally, across complex and sometimes competing interests.
• Strong customer, commercial, and system awareness, with the ability to translate stakeholder feedback into clear strategic and risk based decisions.
• Advanced stakeholder management capability, building effective relationships across Electricity Transmission and with external bodies to shape outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior escalation point for complex, sensitive, or high impact regional issues.
• Experience leading cross functional collaboration, enabling alignment across business units on regional priorities, strategic choices, and delivery implications.
• Change and improvement leadership experience, embedding new processes, ways of working to strengthen regional engagement, coordination, and strategic alignment.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, supporting consistency in messaging for Senior Management level discussions.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple interfaces, track actions, and drive activities to closure.
• Good understanding of the Electricity Transmission organisation, including how different business units contribute to regional strategy, development, and delivery.
• Comfortable working with data, digital tools, and insight, using evidence to inform regional strategy and stakeholder engagement.

Technical

• Good understanding of HV transmission assets, network design, and development processes across the project lifecycle.
• Understanding of customer connection processes and their influence on regional network strategy, investment timing, and risk.
• In depth knowledge of the UK electricity sector, including transmission planning, system operation, and the regulatory framework (Ofgem, RIIO).
• Experience working with or alongside regulatory and system bodies, such as Ofgem, NESO, DNOs, or equivalent industry organisations.
• Understanding of how strategic assumptions, external drivers and stakeholder positions influence regional planning decisions and long term viability.
• Ability to interpret and communicate whole system impacts, uncertainty, and strategic trade offs to technical and non technical audiences.
• Use of stakeholder management and data analysis tools to support engagement strategies, evidence based decision making, and assurance.

Qualifications

• STEM Degree (or equivalent) or relevant experience
• Full UK driving license

Location:

• This role is remote mainly with travel once a week to clients within the region they reside.