Portfolio Governance Officer

About the role

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing and improving. 

Join Our Team as a Portfolio Governance Officer!

Are you ready to make a significant impact in the Network Operations and Intelligence department? We are seeking 2 Portfolio Governance Officers to support our growing Portfolio Deliverability team at NGET.

As part of our mission to provide insights and facilitate effective collaboration across departments, you will help embed integrated and robust processes that strengthen oversight of outage planning portfolio delivery. This includes change management, planning control, and risk escalation.

What You'll Do:

• Drive Compliance: Monitor key metrics in the annual planning process and escalate deviations to ensure accountability.
• Own Processes: Audit either the change control or outage planning process, ensuring high-impact requests are thoroughly reviewed and justified.
• Documentation Mastery: Maintain sole authorship of change documentation, accurately recording significant deviations from commitments.
• Enforce Accountability: Hold our departments to account for under performance or lack of process adherence, making the impacts clear. 
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance governance processes and contribute to the development of best practices.

This role is based in our offices in Warwick for one day per week, and this can be combined with hybrid working from home.

What you'll need

• A problem-solving mindset to tackle challenges effectively.
• Comfortable operating within structured governance environments and facilitating decision-making forums.
• Proven ability to produce high-quality documentation and report key insights to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI.
• Experience in utilities, infrastructure, or regulated industries is desirable.
• An understanding of how the NGET business operates, and its associated challenges is also desirable.

What's in it for you?

A competitive salary of £48,300 – £60,000 per annum

• Annual Performance Based Bonus
• 26 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days 
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days 
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it is relevant to your role
• Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
• Access to a numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

More Information

This role closes at midnight on 21st January 2026, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. 

In most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system. However, in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and demonstrable need for specialist skills that cannot be sourced from the local labour market, National Grid may consider offering sponsorship. All applications are welcome from candidates who meet these requirements, regardless of race, nationality, or ethnic origin.

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