Senior Associate, Strategy

Closing Date:
04/08/2025

Group:
Strategy and Research Group

Management Level:
Senior Associate

Job Type:
Permanent

Job Description:
About Ofcom

As the UK’s communications regulator, we’re delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected with each other.

Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices. We’re also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place. And we need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help us achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.

About the team you’ll be part of

The Strategy and Policy team plays a pivotal role in setting the Ofcom’s strategic direction and ensuring it has a clear pathway to deliver against its key priorities. We are also at the forefront of providing the organisation with the strategic insight and analysis needed to anticipate future challenges and opportunities that exist within this rapidly evolving space. Our work takes a broad range of forms, but key responsibilities include:

- Thought leadership on emerging policy issues - working collaboratively with other teams to decide Ofcom’s position on new or cross-cutting consumer, public policy and competition issues
- Horizon scanning and market/strategic insight - understanding how the communications sector may develop in future to inform our wider policy programme
- Delivering Ofcom’s strategic priorities - leading major projects that set the future direction of regulation in the sector
- Ofcom’s corporate strategy - working with senior management and the Board to set Ofcom’s strategy, define its priorities and assess their delivery

We have a clear focus upon supporting the development and wellbeing of all our colleagues. Our culture is underpinned by four important corporate values: excellence, agility, collaboration and empowerment.

The purpose and scope of the role

Your key responsibilities
- Project management and delivery_
- Managing strategic projects, under the guidance of more senior colleagues, including taking ownership of key day to day responsibilities (e.g. timelines, budget, governance, internal and external stakeholders)
- Taking an active role in setting direction for projects, in dialogue with senior stakeholders
- Depending on the circumstances, either overseeing or leading the delivery of high-quality reports for publication and presenting the results to internal and external stakeholders
- Manage upwards, exercise good judgement in proactively managing and mitigating risks
- Occasionally acting as Project Director, with ultimate responsibility for the quality of output and for liaising with internal clients at Director level
- Analytical work and thought leadership_
- Leading policy development in specific areas and providing advice and guidance to others across a range of policy areas
- Contributing proactively to debates about strategic, policy and organisational issues, providing thought leadership within the Strategy & Policy team and across the wider organisation.
- Representing Ofcom at external meetings and developing an external network to improve Ofcom’s understanding of stakeholder positions
- Team management_
- Taking responsibility for managing, motivating and developing junior colleagues in your capacity as Project Manager or Director
- Contributing to the ongoing development of the team and Ofcom as an excellent place to work

The skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need for success
- Essential_

You should have a demonstrable ability to
- Executing plans: lead teams across a portfolio of projects, taking ownership of progress against deadlines and production of deliverables, shaping projects and identifying necessary work proactively
- Lead, with the support of a Principal or similar, at least one of
- strategic policy development - including establishing or using analytical frameworks for thinking about regulatory policy
- commercial strategy analysis - including an understanding of key drivers of profitability in different industries
- internal corporate strategy and planning - whether in a commercial or public-sector context
- Articulating ideas: communicate clearly both orally and in writing, and producing text suitable for publication in a policy/regulatory context.
- Effective presentations: you should have a demonstrable ability to produce effective presentations, including strong PowerPoiont skills.
- Harmonising work collaborate effectively with colleagues from different teams, specialisms and backgrounds
- Desirable_
- Scanning horizons: effectively manage upwards and proactively manage risks and mitigate before they occur, exercising good judgement
- Channelling influence: tailor arguments to different audiences
- Understanding of commercial dynamics in our sectors

Inclusivity Statement

Inclusivity is at the heart of what we do.

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