Consultant - Senior Consultant – Energy Policy and Regulation (Sydney or Melbourne)

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

Our Energy Policy and Regulation team in Australia works with organisations at the centre of the energy transition, including governments, regulators, market bodies, investors, developers, networks and retailers. We combine deep knowledge of electricity markets and networks with practical policy, regulatory and commercial insight, helping clients understand complex market changes and make confident decisions. Our work spans market reform, network regulation, consumer energy resources, wholesale market design, renewable energy zones, transmission planning and the role of policy in enabling a reliable, affordable and lower-carbon energy system. We mostly support clients in Australia’s east-coast National Electricity Market (NEM), along with some support to clients in Western Australia’s and New Zealand’s energy markets.

What you will be doing

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

• Advising policymakers on policy design for complex energy transition topics such as the integration of large-scale renewables and storage into market, the future role of networks, or the integration of data centres into the grid
• Working alongside the team of a government transmission planning body on the development and implementation of policy and regulations for renewable energy zones, access rights and transmission planning
• Supporting an energy network to develop their regulatory proposal to the Australian Energy Regulator (AER), including leading work on regulatory strategy, business case development, demand forecasting, cost-benefit analysis and stakeholder engagement
• Advising on the integration of consumer energy resources (CER) into the grid such as developing a distribution system operator (DSO) strategy for a distribution network, network tariff design, non-network solutions, or the role of the wholesale market, networks, retailers and aggregators to effectively optimise CER
• Advising clients on potential future options for wholesale market design to facilitate investment, drive the energy transition while maintaining reliability and affordability.
• Providing policy and regulatory insights into commercial advisory work across a range of project types such as market entry strategy for a new storage developer, due diligence on the sale of a transmission network, or commercial growth strategy for the unregulated arm of a distribution network

Your skills and experience

• You have 2+ years (Consultant) or 4+ years (Senior Consultant) of relevant experience working in the energy sector and/or consulting. Sector experience could include working for networks, generators, 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 or regulatory experience in the National Electricity Market (NEM) in at least one of the following areas: transmission networks, distribution networks, wholesale markets, retail markets
• 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.

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.

• 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.