Regulator Performance and Capability Senior Policy Advisor

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

- 384087

**Salary**:

- £41,156 - £48,817
- National: £41,156 - £45,112 London: £44,942 - £48,817
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DBT - CMRR - Regulation Directorate

**Type of role**:

- Policy

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

About the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Business and Trade’s Regulation Directorate (RD) is at the heart of the work in supporting the government’s growth mission. It aims to:

- Reform the stock of existing regulations to minimise bureaucracy and modernise regulation on the statute book
- Ensure the pipeline of regulation is necessary and proportionate, enabling analysis and scrutiny of new regulatory proposals from government departments, via the Better Regulation Framework.
- Ensure independent regulators deliver the right outcomes, with DBT driving a coordinated approach across government.
- Improve economic regulation by ensuring it supports growth and investment, promotes competition, works for consumers, and enables innovation.

When delivered effectively, regulation and the work of regulators plays a vital role in protecting consumers, the environment and setting the right frameworks for businesses to thrive. By enabling better regulation, we will ensure we maintain our high standards but can flex and adapt to the new technologies and challenges that the next few decades will inevitably bring.

The Regulator Performance and Capability Team plays a vital role within the directorate, working across government to develop a shared approach to the evaluation of regulators, with the aim of identifying potential capability and delivery challenges within the regulator landscape, as well as best practice. This advert is for an SEO Senior Policy Advisor to join the team, leading on elements of this essential work.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly formed team working on a novel programme of reviews of key regulators. We are a friendly and inclusive team with a range of exciting work. This programme is ambitious, high-profile and of significant interest to the Secretary of State, ministers and senior officials across government. It also provides the opportunity to work closely with external expert stakeholders.

The team covers a range of policy issues including:

- The development of a consistent methodology, for the evaluation of regulators capability and performance, that is able recognise and accommodate the various types of regulators.
- Identify and promote best practice for regulators across government and ensure that sufficient channels are in place for regulators to share key learnings and solutions for common challenges.
- Conducting in-depth research and analysis of regulation to understand specific challenges faced by regulators and develop practical recommendations for change helping to support UK regulators to continue to be world leading.

**Job description**:
We are seeking an enthusiastic and proactive individual to join the team and lead on elements of the review programme. This role offers significant opportunity to develop policy, strategy and planning skills. The successful applicant will also gain exposure to leading experts and opportunities to work with a wide range of stakeholders, including at very senior levels, across government, regulators and externally. This role’s responsibilities will include:

- Contributing to the development of the overarching programme strategy for the review pilots, with the aim of establishing a multi-year review programme.
- Providing briefing for ministers and senior officials on the progress and development of the review programme.
- Supporting experts to undertake in-depth research and analysis of specific regulators.
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with a range of external stakeholders to promote the review programme and gather views and insights.
- Supporting ministerial and senior official engagement and key moments.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Excellent policy skills, with the ability to effectively compile, understand, analyse and present evidence, to arrive at options identifying clear pros, cons and recommendations.
- Ability to quickly get to grips with a situation and problem-solve at pace.
- Experience working collaboratively within and across relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience and understanding of UK regulators and how regulation works in practice.
- Experience supporting senior internal or external figures to deliver a project.
- Experience working on re