Senior Policy Advisor - Low Carbon Fuels

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 – these roles will focus on developing the UK’s strategic approach to low carbon fuels. This includes work on areas such as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production, hydrogen strategy, and applying systems thinking to complex, cross‑cutting challenges. The team works closely with colleagues across government on infrastructure transition, resilience and longer‑term strategic planning.
• Sustainable Aviation Fuel Revenue Certainty Mechanism – these roles will support the development of the policy design and implementation of the Revenue Certainty Mechanism’s funding mechanism and DfT’s approach to allocating Revenue Certainty Mechanism contracts.

Top Responsibilities

• 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.
• Working closely with modal transport teams on any potential fuel regulations in their area and ensuring alignment with existing regulations such as the RTFO and SAF Mandate.
• Commissioning and overseeing expert internal and external advice, including legal and analytical as necessary. Using sound judgement and influencing and persuasion skills to resolve problems and reach solutions.
• Building strong relationships with a range of stakeholders across DfT, Government and externally, including with the DfT’s legal advisors, the Science Office, Defra and DESNZ, and with academia and industry to develop, test and promote low carbon fuels policy.
• Providing advice and briefing to ministers, drafting responses to correspondence and FOI/EIRs as required.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 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:

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

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Sunday 19th April 2026.