Proactive Investigation Officer

Contract Type
- Permanent
Working Pattern
- Full time - flexible working may be considered
Working Hours
- 35 hours per week
Salary
- £49,941 for Birmingham and Cardiff, £54,935 for London,
Location Options
- Birmingham with part of the week working from home, Cardiff with part of the week working from home, London with part of the week working from home
Function Type
- Investigations

**Are you a seasoned investigator with experience in making risk-based recommendations? Do you have a proven track record in investigation, intelligence, audit, or professional regulation?**

We are seeking dedicated Proactive Investigation Officers to join our newly established team. This hybrid role involves extensive travel for onsite investigations.

**The role**

In this role, you will identify, investigate, and secure evidence of regulatory breaches and other applicable legislation. You will also develop and implement plans for proactive investigation, considering risk indicators to develop proposals for targeted proactive reviews.

As a Proactive Investigation Officer, you will conduct both desk-based and onsite investigations to protect the public interest and mitigate regulatory risks. You will lead site visits independently, gathering and analysing information and intelligence from multiple sources to identify potential misconduct, emerging themes, and regulatory risks, using sound judgment based on the SRA’s Enforcement Strategy. Your responsibilities will include producing fair, accurate, and evidence-based reports to the highest standards of quality, making and articulating investigative decisions succinctly and clearly, and obtaining evidence from various sources during site visits.

Additionally, you will conduct interviews and obtain witness statements with solicitors, employees, and third parties in an authoritative and competent manner. You will manage and report on progress and key outcomes, represent the SRA at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and/or Courts, and explain changes within the regulated legal sector to solicitors and employees. You will also collaborate across functions, compile and cross-reference complex investigation files, and liaise with other regulators, law enforcement, and external agencies.

Please see the Role Profile on our jobs page for the full job specification.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Lead investigations and play a crucial role in safeguarding the public
- Join a newly established team dedicated to proactive investigations and drive positive change
- Work collaboratively internally, and externally with different stakeholders

**What’re we looking for**
- Experienced in leading complex investigations and critically analysing information to make recommendations demonstrating risk-based judgment.
- Proven experience in one or more of the following areas - Investigation, Intelligence, audit or professional regulation.
- Ability to analyse, assimilate and evaluate large volumes of information in an efficient and effective way.
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing, inclusive of drafting complex documents to a high standard.
- Effective communication skills at all levels and in particular the ability to make complex matters easily understood by lay people.

**Useful and additional information**

There is a Role Profile attached at the bottom of the advert on our website.

This hybrid role can be based in our Birmingham, Cardiff or London office. This role will require extensive travel throughout England and Wales as necessary. Typically, you will be attending on-site inspections, working from the office one or two days a week and working from home rest of the week.

The starting salary for this role is £49,941 for Birmingham and Cardiff based and £54,935 for London.

**To apply**
- The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.

**Vacancy closing date: 02/06/2025, 23:55**

**The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.**

**Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit a