Strategic Research Lead - Sustainable Maritime Fuels

Strategic Research Lead – Sustainable Maritime Fuels Lloyd’s Register

(1-year contract, with potential for extension)

Lloyd’s Register

Location: London / Flexible, with occasional travel as required

Who we are looking for

We are seeking a passionate and driven Research and Analytical Lead to join our team for an initial one-year contract (with the possibility of extension). This mid-senior role will be critical to supporting the delivery of our Fuel Adoption Programme, focused on accelerating the scalable uptake of sustainable maritime fuels. Working across three strategic pillars — Evidence and Insights for Action, Investment Models for Market Creation and Scaling Up, and System Alignment and National/Regional Policy Leverage — this role offers the opportunity to shape solutions to systemic market failures and support a just and effective maritime energy transition.

What we offer you

The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose with a mission to engineer a safer and sustainable world.

You will be part of a mission-driven team working at the forefront of maritime decarbonisation. Your work will directly contribute to addressing some of the most critical market failures blocking the adoption of sustainable fuels, helping catalyse a safer, cleaner, and more inclusive global energy transition.

The role 

Key responsibilities:

• Develop decision-support tools and frameworks to support evidence-based interventions and policy alignment
• Conduct technical research to engage with strategic partners
• Support strategic convenings, workshops, and working groups to accelerate multi-fuel adoption pathways and facilitate cross-sector collaborations between maritime, energy, finance, and government stakeholders.

Investment Models

• Support the development and promotion of innovative financing models to unlock private and public capital.
• Contribute to the design and testing of innovative financing models and PPPs that address early-stage project risks.

System Alignment

• Support modelling and analysis of fuel adoption pathways and infrastructure needs at port, including land-based co-benefits
• Contribute to the development of regional transition roadmaps and energy hub concepts.

You are someone who has:

• 4–8 years of experience in programme management, strategy consulting, energy transition, sustainable finance, maritime, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of the maritime sector, energy systems, sustainable fuels, or climate finance.
• Track record of delivering complex projects with multiple stakeholders across public and private sectors.
• Technical literacy in maritime decarbonisation (e.g. alternative fuels, port infrastructure, energy systems)
• Experience working with data and models (especially around fuel pathways, cost structures, or emissions modelling)
• Excellent research, analysis, and communication skills — the ability to turn complex information into actionable outputs for a diverse group of stakeholders including policymakers, maritime, energy, finance actors
• Strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial, proactive, and collaborative mindset.
• Experience working in an international and cross-cultural context.
• Passion for sustainability, innovation, and systems change and Just and Equitable Transition
• Experience in action-orientated non-profit, NGO or charities preferred but not required

Terms:

• Contract: Full-time, 1-year contract (with possibility of extension based on performance and funding).
• Reporting to: Director of Fuel Adoption Programme.
• Start Date: As soon as possible.
• Compensation: Competitive, based on experience and location.

About us 

We are a leading international technical professional service provider and a leader in classification, compliance, and consultancy services to the marine and offshore industry, a trusted advisor to our customers helping to design, construct and operate their assets to the highest levels of safety and performance. We are shaping the industry’s future through the development of novel and innovative technology for the next generation of assets, while continuing to deliver solutions for our customers every day.

Be a part of 

Lloyd’s Register is wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a politically and financially independent global charity that aims to engineer a safer world through promoting safety and education. For a thriving ocean economy, Lloyd’s Register colleagues and Lloyd’s Register Foundation work together to fund research, foster industry collaboration and develop action-oriented solutions to make the world a safer place. 

Want to apply. 

Here at Lloyd’s Register, we care, we share and we do the right thing in every situation. It’s ingrained in our culture and everything we do. We are committed, and continually strive, to lead with our values that empower and enable an inclusive environment conducive to your growth, development and engagement. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you have experienced, how you identify, how old you are, where you are from, what your beliefs are or how your brain or body works – the diversity of our colleagues is fundamental to our futures and the changes we can make together. Our inclusive culture allows us to connect together authentically and to be courageous and bold. We don’t just talk about our differences, we celebrate them! 

We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you. 

 If you don't tick every box in these ads, please don't rule yourself out. We focus on hiring people who share our goal of working together for a safer, sustainable, thriving ocean economy. 

We care, we share, we do the right thing.

If you have further questions about this role, please contact us at careers@lr.org and we will respond to you as soon as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion at Lloyd's Register:

Together we are one Lloyd’s Register, committed to developing an inclusive and safe workplace that embraces and celebrates diversity. We strive to ensure that all applicants to LR experience equality of opportunity and fair treatment, because we believe it is the right thing to do. We hope you do too.

   As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we have committed to:

• ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.
• communicating and promoting vacancies offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job.
• anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
• at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people.

Find out more about Disability Confident at: www.gov.uk/disability-confident

   Copyright © Lloyd's Register 2024. All rights reserved. Terms of use. Privacy policy.

The Lloyd's Register Group comprises charities and non-charitable companies, with the latter supporting the charities in their main goal of enhancing the safety of life and property, at sea, on land and in the air - for the benefit of the public and the environment. (Group entities).