Senior Policy Advisor – Low Carbon Fuels 17 views

📍 Location: Birmingham, Leeds (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: £44,241 – A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Join the Department for Transport’s Low Carbon Fuels Directorate, where you’ll help accelerate the shift to greener transport and play a vital role in tackling climate change. Working in a high-performing, supportive team, you’ll build expertise in green transport policy, low carbon fuels and emerging energy systems. This is a fast-paced, priority policy area at the forefront of government ambition—perfect for motivated professionals passionate about sustainability and driving real-world decarbonisation.

The vacancies will be spread across two divisions:

• LCF Strategy
• Sustainable Aviation Fuel Revenue Certainty Mechanism

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Developing the UK’s strategic approach to Low Carbon Fuels in transport by assessing policy options, drafting key documents, compiling evidence, scoping research projects, and planning stakeholder engagement and workshops.
• Monitoring and developing policy and contributions relating to low carbon policy across Government, supporting the team’s wider work.
• Leveraging technical expertise to inform the design of Revenue Certainty Mechanism policy.
• Managing own workstreams with autonomy, identifying issues and proposing innovative solutions. Taking a key role in project management across all workstreams in the team.

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About you

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

1. Transport decarbonisation, STEM, climate change policy or sustainability. This could be from work, study, or taking a personal interest in these topics.
2. Engaging and managing stakeholders, including communicating complex information to different audiences.
3. Making decisions or recommendations based on the best available evidence, even when the evidence is complex, incomplete or contradictory.

📅 Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 19th April 2026