Senior Infrastructure Funding, Finance and Regulation Lead

The National Infrastructure Commission is looking for an exceptional infrastructure/capital financing expert and/or regulatory specialist to develop cross-sector advice on infrastructure funding and finance, for (up to) a 12 month secondment. The role will take advantage of renewed interest in policy reform around funding, finance and regulation to ensure strategy and policy drives the investment needed to effectively support economic growth and Net Zero.

This is a new role in the NIC and was created to reflect the unprecedented pressure and pace required to enable delivery of the UK's pressing economic infrastructure needs over the coming decades against headwinds of tight public budgets and volatile investor sentiment. It will build on the Commission's reputation for robust and innovative analysis of strategic infrastructure issues, working closely with policy, analysis and strategy professionals within multidisciplinary project teams. 

The expert secondees likely priorities to start with will be to deliver advise on:

-The potential use cases for existing and new public-private funding and financing models, drawing deeply on evidence and evaluation from previous UK and international experiences, and inform how such models could be delivered effectively in policy, programme and project delivery.

-The potential range of revenue streams (eg. Land value capture) that could play a role in funding transport schemes, at national and local level, focusing on their potential scope and scale and how they could fit effectively into the wider funding picture.