AI Transformation Lead (FTC)
Cardiff
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£52,397 - £62,699 a year
- Lead initiatives to harness AI and data across government, aiming to optimise digital transformation and innovation.
- Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical and leadership skills, with proven experience in data management and technology integration.
- Position offers flexible full-time working in Cardiff, Glasgow or London, with comprehensive employee benefits including a civil service pension.
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Job summary
Across government, the use of data and artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation into mainstream delivery. AI is no longer a future ambition; it is a critical capability that enables organisations to make better decisions, improve services and respond more effectively to complex regulatory and operational challenges. At Ofgem, this shift presents a significant opportunity to enhance how we deliver for consumers, strengthen decision-making and support the transition to a more secure, fair and sustainable energy system.
Ofgem plays a vital role in protecting energy consumers and enabling the UK?s journey to Net Zero. As expectations on the organisation continue to grow, so too does the need to harness data and AI in a more coordinated, strategic and impactful way. Within the Digital, Data and Security Services (DDSS) directorate, we are building the foundations to embed data-driven decision making and scale the use of AI across the organisation, ensuring that innovation translates into real, measurable outcomes.
About the role
As AI Transformation Lead, you will play a central role in shaping and delivering Ofgem?s AI transformation agenda. You will oversee a complex portfolio of products, services and initiatives, coordinating multiple delivery teams to ensure that the organisation can effectively leverage data and AI tools. This is a high-impact role that combines programme leadership, stakeholder influence and delivery oversight, with responsibility for driving progress, managing risk and ensuring that transformation activity delivers tangible value.
This is a role with real breadth and visibility. You will lead a multidisciplinary team, including specialists in benefits realisation, change and engagement, and will work across organisational boundaries to align priorities, manage dependencies and maintain delivery momentum. Operating in a fast-evolving space, you will need to balance ambition with practicality, ensuring effective governance, strong delivery practices and clear communication across both technical and non-technical audiences.
Job description
You will be responsible for:
- Leading and coordinating a complex programme of AI transformation activity, ensuring alignment across multiple teams, managing dependencies and unblocking issues to maintain delivery momentum
- Managing programme budgets, commercial arrangements and risks, while coaching and supporting delivery and workstream leads in these areas
- Developing and implementing effective stakeholder management approaches, building strong relationships and influencing across senior audiences
- Balancing competing priorities and redeploying resources as needed to respond to changing organisational needs
- Establishing and embedding appropriate governance, delivery frameworks and agile practices, working closely with the Digital Programme Office and Head of Digital Delivery
- Acting as the central escalation point for programme-level challenges, ensuring risks and issues are addressed proactively
- Driving clear, consistent communication across the AI transformation portfolio, translating complex technical concepts for a wide range of audiences
- Working with suppliers, partners and wider government data and AI communities to ensure alignment with best practice and emerging capability
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience of delivering complex data or AI programmes, including managing resources (Lead Criteria)
- Extensive experience in managing commercial agreements for specialist data & AI skills and data technologies (Lead Criteria)
- Proven knowledge and experience of coaching, leading and supporting delivery in an agile, iterative manner that manages risks effectively and delivers value early.
- Knowledge and experience of stakeholder management, particularly building key relationships and managing expectations.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with varied audiences, translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences.
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge of energy sector data and AI challenges, the transition to net-zero, including regulatory and affordability implications.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping how Ofgem uses AI to transform its services and operations, at a time when the organisation?s work has never been more important.
If you are interested in applying for this vacancy, please reach out to Lawrence Harris on 020 8253 1806, or via email at Ofegm-AITL@global-resourcing.com.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- You will also be asked to complete a technical test. Details will be included in the invitation to interview.
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Selection process details
As part of your application, you will be asked to upload a 2-page copy of your CV and 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 criteria listed in the role profile. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on just the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.
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].
At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator. Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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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
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Lawrence Harris
- Email : Ofegm-AITL@global-resourcing.com
Recruitment team
- Email : Ofegm-AITL@global-resourcing.com
Further information
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via recruitment@ofgem.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website.