Enforcement Specialist

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

- 234404**Salary**:

- £39,390 - £52,289- between £39,390 and £52,289 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package**Grade**:

- Other- R&O 8 - Specialist**Contract type**:

- Permanent
- Fixed Term
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- Permanent & Fixed term contract / Internal secondment for 9 & 12 months**Business area**:

- TPR - Frontline Regulation**Type of role**:

- Investigation**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working**Number of posts**:

- 3Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Brighton, South East England, BN1 4DWAbout the job

**Summary**:
**About us**

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

**Job description**:
**Role**
- This will involve leading a team through issuing summonses and undertaking prosecutions in the Magistrates and/or Crown Court for a broad range of criminal offences, and/or instigating and following our own regulatory enforcement process (potentially taking the case as far as the Upper Tribunal and appeals courts).
- We are looking for an individual that will be willing to support the work we do across the Enforcement Directorate. This includes working in the Investigations Team but also in the Proceedings Team, when necessary.

**Responsibilities**

You will:

- Establish and deliver regulatory strategies for enforcement
- Negotiate required outcomes of cases with the relevant parties, internally and externally
- Make decisions on case strategies and emerging issues on cases
- Support Lead Specialists in their role on individual cases and required areas, both internally and externally
- Manage a portfolio of cases within required KPIs
- Escalate cases as required per the decision-making framework
- Deliver regulatory case work in line with KPIs and the schedule of delegations and in accordance with the decision-making framework
- Develop and implement case strategies
- Work with wider case team to achieve required outcomes
- Carry out prudent financial management of investigation costs.

**Responsibilities**:
**Essential and desirable criteria**

**Essential**
- Experience of leading, decision making and delivering regulatory outcomes on a range of regulatory, civil and/or criminal cases
- Experience of analysing complex financial information and identification of risks
- Experience of communicating at all levels, including drafting enforcement notices, escalations and presenting to senior stakeholders
- Negotiation skills with demonstrable experience of negotiation and influencing at a senior level in a commercial, legal or regulatory environment
- Experience and working knowledge of legal requirements relating to enforcement outcomes

**Desirable**
- Experience of using a broad range of tools to achieve a positive regulatory outcome in regulatory cases, including consideration of and use of settlement and powers
- Experience of using risk mitigation strategies and techniques
- Awareness of relevant aspects of investigation techniques and legal requirements
- Financial and commercial awareness

**Person specification**
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative
- Negotiating skills
- Calm under pressure
- Communication skills at all levels
- Attention to detail and accuracy

**Benefits**:
**Salary and benefits**

As well as a salary between £39,390 and £52,289 we offer:

- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton

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**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel