Consultant / Senior Consultant – Energy Policy and Regulation

Consultant / Senior Consultant – Policy and Regulation

About Baringa

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Policy and Regulation practice is looking for an experienced Consultant or Senior Consultant to join the team in Sydney or Melbourne.

Our leading Energy Advisory practice in Australia offers our clients an unparalleled combination of electricity market sector expertise (covering Markets and Networks) and commercial insight. We are proud to advise the organisations at the heart of the energy transition, including governments regulators, developers, financial institutions, networks and retailers. Led by a Senior Management Team respected as Thought Leaders within the industry, we help our clients shape, define, and implement change in electricity markets.

What You Will Be Doing

Examples of the types of projects you can expect to work on:

• Navigating the details and policy challenges of network access reform for clients, including moving to bespoke access regimes to incentivise new renewables to locate in specific geographic areas (‘renewable energy zones’).
• Advising market bodies, governments, and market participants on the different means, and associated costs and benefits, by which to better integrate consumer energy resources into the power system, including the introduction of distribution network-level markets and network tariff reform.
• Managing the challenge of better incorporating the detailed complexities of distribution level system planning into NEM-wide integrated planning.
• Advising unregulated network businesses and their investors on market trends and future growth opportunities.
• Advising clients on potential future options for wholesale market design to facilitate investment, drive the energy transition while maintaining reliability and affordability.
  
  

Your Skills And Experience

• You have 4 years of relevant experience working in the energy sector and/or consulting. Sector experience could include working for generators, networks, retailers, industry bodies, government or regulatory agencies.
• You will likely be familiar with, and have contributed to, electricity sector policy and regulatory development processes, and passionate about addressing the challenges of the rapidly changing electricity sector.
• You have policy experience in the NEM in at least one of the following areas: wholesale markets, retail markets, transmission networks, or distribution networks.
• You have direct experience working or interacting with the NEM’s market bodies (AEMC, AEMO, and/or AER), other regulators (ACCC, IPART, ESCV), and/or government energy agencies (State and/or Commonwealth.
• You have qualitative and quantitative research and analytical skills, including comfortable analysing large amounts of information to solve problems and deliver well informed advice to our clients.
• You are personable and professional, with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• You are a collaborator and an effective team player.
  
  

What a Career At Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First.

Benefits

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further .