G7 Head of Regulated Professions Advisory Functions

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

- 350358**Salary**:

- £53,560 - £63,481- London Salary: £57,026 - £63,481 National Salary: £53,560 - £60,118- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- TPIN: EU, Services and Trade**Type of role**:

- Commercial
- Finance
- Policy
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Homeworking, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Regulated Professions Policy (RPP) Team is responsible for recognition of professional qualifications (RPQ). RPQ is a crucial lever for DBT to achieve its priorities of removing barriers to business and helping UK businesses to sell their services overseas. 37% of UK services exports in 2022 were from business services sectors in which workers legally need a qualification to practise their profession. As such, the RPP team in the EUST Directorate has a high-profile and indispensable role to play in delivering the Government’s trade in services objectives and labour market outcomes.

The RPP team has responsibility for the legislative framework governing how overseas qualifications are recognised by UK professions and vice versa (from auditors to vets). To facilitate and support access to these professions for UK citizens and overseas professionals, the RPP team has stood up ambitious new support systems. This G7 role is responsible for establishing and managing these digital and support structures, including the Regulated Professions Register, DBT advice on regulated profession and the relevant provisions in the Professional Qualifications Act 2022.

The RPP team has a track record of success in delivering projects for Ministers - including making the Regulated Professions Register the most accessed DBT digital service - and great development opportunities for staff. We work hard to bring a range of different perspectives, evidence and analysis into our work. We are a friendly, welcoming group, based in six locations across the UK. We are an inclusive team and believe that having people from different backgrounds (gender, race, sexuality, socio-economic, educational, geographical, family circumstances) makes it a better team in every way.

**Job description**:
This is a high profile and stretching G7 role within the RPP team, which provides a unique and exciting opportunity to balance policy and legislative objectives with responsibility for sizeable digital and finance workstreams.

The role holder’s key objectives are:

- Line manage 3 team members across various UK locations;
- Responsibility for RPP’s digital and advisory functions and services for regulated professions, principally the Regulated Professions Register;
- Responsibility for contract and budget management connected to the RPP digital and advisory functions. Establish effective relationships with the digital supplier and DBT’s digital/commercial/financial teams to ensure VFM for DBT and effective service delivery;
- Deliver effective risk monitoring and management connected to the RPP’s digital and advisory functions and services;
- Maximise use and impact of RPP’s digital and advisory functions and services with domestic and international users, to open up new markets for UK professionals and support UK labour market outcomes;
- Identify, develop and implement options for enhancing RPP’s digital and advisory functions - including service developments and add-ons;
- Develop options for future policy interventions and options connected to RPP’s digital and advisory functions and services - including projecting UK influence overseas using these services;
- Monitor the relevant provisions of the Professional Qualifications Act 2022 (those concerning advisory functions) and, if necessary, scope and deliver legislative reform;
- Perform a corporate leadership role within the RPP team and make an active contribution to the culture and corporate life of the EUST Directorate.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Experience leading digital services and projects within government
- Experience leading commercial and financial workstreams within government - including contract management, budget management and risk management
- Experience of strong and effective team leadership and line management
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (within DBT, with OGDs, with external stakeholders and with international partners)
- Excellent briefing and communication skills, both written and oral
- Strong policy development skills, including evidence collection and analysis, assessment of policy intervention options and development of proposals for funding, legislation, strategies etc

**Desirable Criteria**
- Secondary legislative