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Glasgow/ Cardiff / London, United KingdomAt the forefront of shaping consumer behaviour in the energy sector, Ofgem is harnessing behavioural science to combat some of the most pressing challenges of our time. We're looking for a Senior Behavioural Scientist to join us and apply cutting-edge insights to inform policy, optimise market interventions, and drive better outcomes for consumers.Ofgem is Great Britain's independent energy regulator. We're at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers - especially vulnerable people.We're offering a 12-month fixed-term contract with the chance to apply your expertise in behavioural science within a high-profile and fast-moving policy environment. You'll be part of a well-established function known for its leadership in behavioural insights, working on innovative projects that will help shape the future of the energy market. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to translate behavioural research into meaningful regulatory and consumer outcomes.You'll lead high-impact behavioural research projects, bringing your experience in trial design and online experimentation to continue to grow our ability to provide behaviourally informed empirical evidence through in-house online and field experiments. You will design and test interventions that influence real-world energy consumption and consumer engagement, and work alongside policy teams to embed behavioural science into decision-making.We're looking for someone with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, experience in behavioural research, and the ability to communicate complex findings to diverse audiences. You'll need a solid grounding in behavioural science or behavioural economics, as well as experience designing and delivering behavioural experiments and research methodologies.At Ofgem, you'll join a collaborative and inclusive workplace, where behavioural insights play a key role in shaping regulatory policy. This is your chance to work on real-world challenges, develop innovative solutions, and contribute to the transition towards a more flexible and sustainable energy market.We have a critical purpose to embed behavioural science in policy and regulation, ensuring that interventions are evidence-based, consumer-focused, and effective. Your work will help drive innovation in the energy sector, supporting consumers and businesses in making smarter, more sustainable choices. Responsibilities <ul><li>Delivery: Lead the delivery of high-quality behavioural research/projects to provide evidence that helps Ofgem to deliver on its strategic priorities, ensuring effective project management and quality assurance.</li><li>Stakeholder engagement/influencing: Build strong, effective relationships, collaborating with policy teams across Ofgem to use behavioural science and/or economics to answer complex questions. Build relationships with external stakeholders to maximise partnership and collaboration opportunities e.g. ensure Ofgem benefits from behavioural science research conducted by academia.</li><li>Communication/impact: Draft clear and concise documents, including briefings, reports, and presentations and present work at internal forums. Help build capability and raise visibility of Behavioural Science in Ofgem. Increase Ofgem's impact as a regulatory leader in Behavioural Science by representing Ofgem at external events, conferences etc to showcase the work of behavioural science in Ofgem.</li><li>Innovation: Keep abreast of advances in the field of Behavioural Science and how this can be applied in Ofgem.</li></ul> Requirements <ul><li>Hands-on experience of behavioural research and statistical analysis (including designing and programming online experiments, other experimental and quasi-experimental methods and literature reviews) with proven experience of personally delivering online experiments (LEAD)</li><li>Advanced knowledge and understanding of behavioural science and/or behavioural economics with an up to date understanding of the key literature (LEAD)</li><li>Experience of applying behavioural science in a real-world setting (e.g. in a regulatory, government, academia or consultancy role)</li><li>Ability to distil complex subject matter into relevant messages for different audiences - both orally and in writing, combined with excellent drafting skills.</li><li>Experience working collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders</li><li>Applied experience of wider qualitative and quantitative research approaches.</li><li>Understanding of energy policy issues - particularly around retail markets and Net Zero.</li></ul>

Senior Behavioural Scientist

Glasgow/ Cardiff / London, United KingdomAt Ofgem, we stand at the forefront of tackling some of the most pressing challenges of our time: combating the global energy crisis, accelerating the transition to Net Zero, and safeguarding energy consumers. We're looking for a Lead Behavioural Scientist to lead transformative behavioural science initiatives that will shape the energy landscape for generations to come.Ofgem is Great Britain's independent energy regulator. We're at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers - especially vulnerable people.We're offering a permanent role where you can make a direct impact on critical issues such as reducing carbon emissions, encouraging sustainable energy use, and protecting vulnerable consumers. This is a high-profile role where you will oversee complex behavioural research, collaborate with leading academics, and influence policymaking at the highest levels. You'll drive our behavioural science strategy, ensuring it underpins key decisions and fosters innovative solutions across our organisation.We're looking for a collaborative, strategic thinker with extensive experience in behavioural science, behavioural economics, or a related field. You'll be an experienced leader with the ability to inspire and guide multidisciplinary teams. Your expertise will be instrumental in developing cutting-edge interventions, influencing policy, and driving impactful research that addresses consumer challenges while advancing our Net Zero goals.This role offers the opportunity to work on multiple impactful projects, delivering high-quality research with the potential to influence industry and government practices. As the behavioural science lead, you'll engage with senior internal and external stakeholders, providing strategic oversight and technical expertise to enhance our evidence-based decision-making.At Ofgem, we pride ourselves on fostering a supportive, inclusive, and flexible working environment. You'll take the lead in a team that values innovation, diversity, and professional development, with opportunities to collaborate with top-tier academics and industry experts.We have a critical purpose to advance the understanding of human behaviour to deliver innovative energy solutions and empower consumers on the journey to Net Zero. This is your opportunity to lead research that will shape the future of the energy sector and improve the lives of millions across Great Britain. Responsibilities <ul><li>Strategy: Set Ofgem's behavioural science strategy as our internal Behavioural Science expert, providing technical oversight and advanced analysis on behavioural science related matters including experimental/evaluation methods, behavioural economics and behaviour change to teams across Ofgem, Ofgem Boards, and other key stakeholders.</li><li>Delivery: Lead and oversee delivery of complex high-quality behavioural research/projects to provide evidence that helps Ofgem to deliver on its strategic priorities, ensuring effective project management and quality assurance.</li><li>Leadership: Support the development of a high-performing team based on effective resource management, ongoing support and professional development. Manage a small team of multidisciplinary experts, providing inclusive leadership, using your expertise to provide comprehensive knowledge sharing, support and development that demonstrate commitment to Ofgem values and promote diversity and inclusion.</li><li>Innovation: Be the focal point for technical advice relating to behavioural science. Keep abreast of advances in the field, provide guidance on methodological challenges and encourage and support staff to consider new and innovative methods.</li><li>Stakeholder engagement/influencing: Build strong, effective relationships, collaborating with senior leaders across Ofgem to use behavioural science and/or economics to answer complex questions. Build Behavioural Science capability in Ofgem, driving awareness, fostering buy-in at all levels and equipping teams with the necessary tools to integrate and embed behavioural approaches in their work. Build relationships with external stakeholders to maximise partnership and collaboration opportunities e.g. ensure Ofgem benefits from behavioural science research conducted by academia.</li><li>Communication/impact: Increase Ofgem's impact as a regulatory leader in Behavioural Science by representing Ofgem at external events, conferences etc to showcase the work of behavioural science and wider analytical work in Ofgem. Draft clear and concise documents, including briefing, reports, and management papers.</li></ul> Requirements <ul><li>Breadth and depth of relevant applied experience in behavioural analysis, behavioural economics and research methods (e.g. experimental, quasi-experimental, user experience, design, quant, qual, data science) within a complex organisation, with proven experience of personally delivering online experiments (Lead criteria)</li><li>Significant experience of leading behavioural science/economics teams, including effective team and people leadership and setting and delivering a vision and strategy to achieve organisational objectives. (Lead criteria)</li><li>Ability to distil complex subject matter into relevant messages for different audiences - both orally and in writing, combined with excellent drafting skills.</li><li>Advanced knowledge and understanding of the key issues, trends, frameworks, approaches and latest techniques in behavioural science and ability to apply a behavioural science lens to help solve complex policy problems and communicate the value of a behavioural approach effectively to senior stakeholders.</li><li>Experience working collaboratively with diverse colleagues, planning, overseeing and supporting teams to deliver high quality analytical work.</li><li>Advanced statistical analysis skills (e.g. using Python, R, Stata etc), proficiency in programming experiments and an ability to develop/coach others to develop skills.</li></ul>

Lead Behavioural Scientist

At Just we encourage a flexible and agile working environment for the majority of our opportunities. Get in touch with us to discuss in more detail. Who are Just?We're a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.That's who we are. We're a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.Purpose:As a Behavioural Scientist in the Demographic Risk group at Just, you will play a crucial role in analysing behaviour and health-related data to derive actionable insights that inform decision-making processes and drive improvements in pension provision.You will work closely with key business stakeholders to identify opportunities to drive value from data and lead the development of advanced analytics &amp; modelling algorithms. You will be comfortable working independently and as part of small teams in dynamic projects across Just to develop predictive models, identify behaviour and health trends and implement data-driven solutions.You will be responsible for identifying opportunities for improvements across systems and processes. You will ensure that our analytics and activities comply with data protection law and that we are upholding our values and ethics in how we use data. Responsibilities <ul><li>Clean, preprocess, and validate behaviour and health data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analyses.</li><li>Produce and present insightful analysis from multiple large data sources to help drive business performance.</li><li>Develop high-quality analytics using appropriate, industry-standard tools, technologies and languages.</li><li>Collaborate with actuaries, underwriters, biostatisticians and other data users to understand the impact of behaviours on health and retirement planning and tailor analytical solutions accordingly.</li><li>Communicate complex behavioural findings and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.</li><li>Work with colleagues to agree, document, implement and monitor actions for improving the quality of data.</li><li>Support the implementation of the data governance framework at Just.</li><li>Stay current with advancements in behavioural and data science to propose and implement innovative solutions.</li><li>Ensure that high-quality documentation is developed, maintained, regularly reviewed, and stored for all solutions developed and all operational processes.</li></ul> Examples of Key Activities: <ul><li>Setting behavioural science priorities in consultation with business owners.</li><li>Estimating and tracking the benefits of data science projects.</li><li>Sourcing and analysing data.</li><li>Spotting trends, patterns, and relationships within data.</li><li>Using data-driven techniques for solving business problems.</li><li>Communicating the results of your analysis to business owners.</li><li>Documenting your programs and quality assurance process.</li><li>Deploying and reviewing quality assured models.</li></ul> Requirements Essential for the roleMaster's in a quantitative field such as Behavioural Science.Skills and Knowledge<ul><li>Analysis of structure, semi-structured and unstructured data.</li><li>Programming - SQL, Python, R.</li><li>AI/ML ethics.</li><li>Understanding of Data Governance concepts and best practices.</li><li>Quick understanding of business problems and requirements.</li><li>A willingness to learn new skills and adapt to new technologies.</li><li>Good understanding of Microsoft Server technologies (Azure, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI).</li></ul>Experience<ul><li>At least five years' experience of working as a Behavioural Scientist or equivalent role, in applying statistical models and machine learning algorithms to behaviour and health-related data sets.</li><li>Experience and ability to respond to business needs by identifying appropriate statistical methodologies and presenting insights for decision making.</li><li>Attention to detail &amp; problem-solving skills.</li><li>Relationship building skills and collaborative working style.</li><li>Experience with IT development processes and delivery lifecycles; development methodology; release strategy and configuration management; development tools, and applications across full project lifecycles.</li><li>Experience with Power BI or a similar data visualisation tool is desirable.</li></ul> Additional Information Why Just?We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We've made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&amp;I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.What's clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.

Behavioural Scientist

We're a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.That's who we are. We're a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.Purpose:As a Behavioural Scientist in the Demographic Risk group at Just, you will play a crucial role in analysing behaviour and health-related data to derive actionable insights that inform decision-making processes and drive improvements in pension provision.You will work closely with key business stakeholders to identify opportunities to drive value from data and lead the development of advanced analytics &amp; modelling algorithms. You will be comfortable working independently and as part of small teams in dynamic projects across Just to develop predictive models, identify behaviour and health trends, and implement data-driven solutions.You will be responsible for identifying opportunities for improvements across systems and processes. You will ensure that our analytics and activities comply with data protection law and that we are upholding our values and ethics in how we use data.Nature of the Role: Data Analysis &amp; modelling<ol><li>Clean, preprocess, and validate behaviour and health data to ensure accuracy and reliability of analyses.</li><li>Produce and present insightful analysis from multiple large data sources to help drive business performance.</li></ol>Data Insights<ol><li>Collaborate with actuaries, underwriters, biostatisticians and other data users to understand the impact of behaviours on health and retirement planning and tailor analytical solutions accordingly.</li><li>Communicate complex behavioural findings and insights to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner.</li><li>Work with colleagues to agree, document, implement and monitor actions for improving the quality of data.</li><li>Support the implementation of the data governance framework at Just.</li></ol>Stay current with advancements in behavioural and data science to propose and implement innovative solutions. Ensure that high-quality documentation is developed, maintained, regularly reviewed and stored for all solutions developed and all operational processes.Examples of Key Activities:<ol><li>Setting behavioural science priorities in consultation with business owners.</li><li>Estimating and tracking the benefits of data science projects.</li><li>Sourcing and analysing data.</li><li>Spotting trends, patterns, and relationships within data.</li><li>Using data-driven techniques for solving business problems.</li><li>Communicating the results of your analysis to business owners.</li><li>Documenting your programs and quality assurance process.</li><li>Deploying and reviewing quality assured models.</li></ol>QualificationsEssential for the role:Master's in a quantitative field such as Behavioural Science.Skills and Knowledge<ol><li>Analysis of structure, semi-structured and unstructured data.</li><li>Programming - SQL, Python, R.</li><li>AI/ML ethics.</li><li>Understanding of Data Governance concepts and best practice.</li><li>Quick understanding of business problems and requirements.</li><li>A willingness to learn new skills and adapt to new technologies.</li><li>Good understanding of Microsoft Server technologies (Azure, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Power BI).</li></ol>Experience<ol><li>At least five years' experience of working as a Behavioural Scientist or equivalent role, in applying statistical models and machine learning algorithms to behaviour and health-related data sets.</li><li>Experience and ability to respond to business needs by identifying appropriate statistical methodologies and presenting insights for decision making.</li><li>Attention to detail &amp; problem-solving skills.</li><li>Relationship building skills and collaborative working style.</li><li>Experience with IT development processes and delivery lifecycles; development methodology; release strategy and configuration management; development tools, and applications across full project lifecycles.</li><li>Experience with Power BI or a similar data visualisation tool is desirable.</li></ol>Why Just?We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We've made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&amp;I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.What's clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.

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