Manager – Environmental Markets – Clean Energy Regulator
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0769796
- Agency: Clean Energy Regulator
- Job Title: Manager – Environmental Markets
- Position Number: CER 047/26
- Classification: Executive Level 2
- Closing Date: Sunday 14 June 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Canberra ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Canberra
- Salary: $150,252 – $176,995
- Office Arrangement: Flexible (The agency supports and promotes flexible working,)
About Clean Energy Regulator
Facilitating vibrant carbon markets is a key plank in Australia achieving net zero emissions by
2050.
The CER administers Australia’s world-leading, government-backed carbon, renewable energy
and environmental markets. The CER values and is a steward of these government-created
environmental markets and the ecosystem around them, to promote and support well-functioning
markets that are deep, liquid, transparent and accessible. The agency delivers a range of
important policy initiatives to grow Australia’s regulated carbon markets and certify the integrity of
low emissions production for international and domestic markets.
The role of the Carbon Markets Branch is to provide authoritative, evidence-based insights on
economic carbon markets to support effective outcomes for the schemes the CER administers,
and provide strategic policy analysis and support for the agency.
The branch objectives are to:
Provide economic, market and policy advice, support, or action on complex scheme
implementation.
Influence the design of potential new schemes or policies to ensure they are market friendly
as well as workable and enforceable.
Increase confidence in the carbon and renewable energy markets by highlighting the market
opportunity of our schemes including understanding the international context.
Duties
- We are looking for an experienced leader of analytical staff to lead a section delivering high
- quality, policy-relevant quantitative analysis. This is a unique opportunity to shape the agency’s
- economic analysis capability, working with sophisticated tools and technology in a data-rich
- environment to deliver insights within the agency and externally.
- The duties of the position are to:
- Lead a team of economic, market and carbon emissions professionals responsible for
- developing and delivering authoritative, robust analysis and guidance on Australian
- environmental markets, in particular the Safeguard Mechanism and Australian Carbon Credit
- Unit Scheme. This analysis includes insights from in-house models and is delivered in a
- variety of formats including readable reports that deliver analysis and insights for
- non-technical audiences.
- Oversee delivery of the agency’s Quarterly Carbon Markets Report a timely manner
- following the end of each quarter while effectively prioritising and managing a range of other
- section and cross-agency projects including bespoke analytical work for every Regulator
- Board meeting.
- Set strategic direction and long-term planning in relation to carbon markets analysis and
- advice, including developing and prioritising policy-relevant questions, exploring and
- developing sources of data and intelligence, maintaining and enhancing existing in-house
- models, and providing strategic and technical guidance to staff to support their analysis.
- Work in a highly collaborative way with branches across the CER to identify trends, market
- intelligence and report on the performance of the Clean Energy Regulator’s Schemes, and
- enhance the agency’s ability to use scheme and other data to inform the agency and market
- participants.
- Develop and manage key internal and external networks to scan for market trends and
- developments in emissions reductions, and work in a highly collaborative fashion with staff
- from other APS agencies doing related work to improve the analysis and advice provided to
- executives, Ministers and market participants.
- Initiating activities and strategies to build and lead a high performing team, including
- successful coaching and development of staff, and mobilising the capability, strength and
- leadership of others.
- Work with a level of independence, under broad direction, with a concurrent need to resolve
- issues and deliver quality outcomes.
- Performing effective and accountable financial management and budgeting activities.
- Knowledge, Skills and Attributes
- Experience and/or qualifications in economics, finance or quantitative analysis are highly
- desirable.
- Experience in climate or energy policy is welcomed.
Eligibility / Notes
- The requires all people joining the Australian Public Service to be Public Service Act 1999
- Australian citizens. You will be asked to declare your citizenship status as part of the application
- process.
- We will conduct pre-employment checks before we offer you employment. For us to do this, you
- will be required to supply certified copies of identity documents.
- It is a condition of employment with the Clean Energy Regulator that you can obtain and maintain
- a security clearance at a baseline level. If you are offered a role and do not already hold a security
- clearance at or above this level, you will need to undertake the security clearance process before
- you can commence employment. Any employment offer will be contingent upon obtaining this
- clearance.
How to Apply
Position Contact Kathryn Smith, 02 6159 3410
Agency Recruitment Site https://cleanenergyregulatorcareers.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm
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