Futures Lead

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

- 428360

**Salary**:

- £74,745
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Other
- Grade 5 & Digital

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Type of role**:

- Architecture and Data

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Brighton, South East England, BN1 6AF

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
As Futures Lead, you will play a critical role in shaping the long-term strategic direction of TPR by embedding futures thinking and insight-led innovation into policy development. Drawing on trend forecasting methodologies, you will lead the creation of a continuous discovery framework for innovation that enables regulatory and policy teams to anticipate change, surface emerging signals, and translate user insight into proactive strategic action.

You will guide cross-functional teams through horizon scanning, scenario development, and speculative design to explore complex policy challenges providing expert input helping teams to identify behavioural risk in the context of innovation evaluation, and the evolving pensions landscape towards ensuring TPR remains adaptive and future-fit.

To build institutional foresight, you will develop and curate the Future Pensions Archive a live repository of trends, insights, and provocations that inform thought leadership, strategic conversations and professional development across the organisation and with external stakeholders.

You will also cultivate strategic partnerships and foster collaboration across the pensions ecosystem, ensuring TPR’s regulatory approaches are aligned with the changing needs of savers and the industry. Through storytelling, synthesis, and systems thinking, you will help embed a futures mindset across TPR, enabling teams to move from reactive to anticipatory policy design.

**About The Pensions Regulator**

With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.

Find out more about us.

**Job description**:
As Futures Lead, you will play a critical role in shaping the long-term strategic direction of TPR by embedding futures thinking and insight-led innovation into policy development. Drawing on trend forecasting methodologies, you will lead the creation of a continuous discovery framework for innovation that enables regulatory and policy teams to anticipate change, surface emerging signals, and translate user insight into proactive strategic action.

You will guide cross-functional teams through horizon scanning, scenario development, and speculative design to explore complex policy challenges providing expert input helping teams to identify behavioural risk in the context of innovation evaluation, and the evolving pensions landscape towards ensuring TPR remains adaptive and future-fit.

To build institutional foresight, you will develop and curate the Future Pensions Archive a live repository of trends, insights, and provocations that inform thought leadership, strategic conversations and professional development across the organisation and with external stakeholders.

You will also cultivate strategic partnerships and foster collaboration across the pensions ecosystem, ensuring TPR’s regulatory approaches are aligned with the changing needs of savers and the industry. Through storytelling, synthesis, and systems thinking, you will help embed a futures mindset across TPR, enabling teams to move from reactive to anticipatory policy design.

**The team**

Our Digital, Data and Technology department is driving transformation at TPR to deliver positive outcome for savers across the UK. We’re building a series of value stream-aligned Service Teams and supporting Platform Teams to deliver external and internal services. These Teams will work in a User Centred, Agile way to deliver better services, that are put into the hands of our users as soon as possible, while securing the sensitive data and maintaining stable services; this will be done by long-lived, happy teams.

**Person specification**:

- Proven ability to translate emerging cultural and technological shifts into tangible, storytelling and research outputs.
- Strong background in futures methods, u