Senior Policy Advisor

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 343403**Salary**:

- £39,384 - £46,715- National: £39,384 - £43,169 London: £43,007 - £46,715- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DBT - DG CMRR - Office for Product Safety & Standards**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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- Birmingham, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About OPSS**

Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge, and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you

We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy).

We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.

Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, recently with the addition of construction products regulation.

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.

Further information can be found on our website here

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity.

We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

**We are Inclusive**

**Job description**:
**The Team**

The Metrology Policy team within OPSS leads on the of policy of legal metrology legislation to ensure that goods are sold by accurate weights and measures and deliver consumer confidence in our daily purchases of products such as food, drink and fuel. It is a wide, high impact area with UK consumers spending around £300 billion each year on goods sold by weight or measure.

The team develops and formulate policy, delivering evidence-based solutions and robust advice for Ministers, whilst supporting business to meet their obligations and ultimately protecting consumers and ensuring they have confidence in the products they buy.

We deliver our policy through legislative and non-legislative means, and through engagement and collaboration across Whitehall and wider to make sure we are joined up and working in line with Government’s overarching aims. We are outward

facing, seeking to use our expertise and knowledge to lead and influence on both the domestic and global stage.

We are looking at re-shaping the metrology framework now we have left the EU to develop a regime that is agile and responsive. This will enable us to meet challenges arising from advances in technology and novel products so that our metrology regulation is fit for the future and embraces the opportunities of innovation, new technologies and new trading partners.

SEO Metrology Policy - Retained EU Law Legislation

This post will support the Metrology policy team’s work on Retained EU Law (REUL) and also on the development of a new metrology strategy. OPSS has one of the largest suites of REUL and the first step in this REUL reform programme forms a significant part of this role.

You will take forward the laying of a piece of legislation (a statutory instrument). The legislation will amend some of the quantities in which alcohol (specifically prepacked wine) can be sold.

The proposal has been announced publicly and has received significant media coverage.

This work will include:

- Preparing to lay the legislation in parliament - producing key documents and liaising closely with analysts, lawyers and parliamentary teams during this process.
- Managing queries about the proposed changes from a wide range of stakeholders from UK trade bodies to the world trade organisation.
- Informally consulting with key members of the wine sector, Devolved Administrations and Trading Standards.
- Contributing to the wider Metrology Retained EU Law review
- Monitoring wider government programmes around Retained EU Law, Windsor Framework, and Smarter Regulation.
- Collaborating with Devolved Administrations (DAs) and other Government departments (OGDs), about developments in metrology policy, and exploring intersections with oth

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