Operational Policy Officer

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

- 382797

**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 - Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform Strategy

**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
Policy

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- London, Birmingham, Teddington

About the job

**Job summary**:
About OPSS

Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you

We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.

Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.

Further information can be found on our website here

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

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**Job description**:
Are you ready to step into the world of Operational Policy which helps protect people and places from product-related harm? If so, then this could be the role for you.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Tasks which will be undertaken in this role will include:

- Supporting with the renewal of several Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) documents inclusive of a UK wide Market Surveillance MOU.
- Liaison across government to ensure MOUs are fit for purpose, improve understanding and deliver essential regulatory outcomes.
- The delivery of specific NI Border Reporting which is submitted to the EU on an annual basis. Work with Legal and Delivery colleagues to analyse EU requirements and to produce options to embed a more streamlined delivery process.
- The creation of Operational Policy procedures and the associated guidance to support regulatory delivery functions at the border.
- Supporting, and in some areas leading, on the creation of an operational guidance document which supports Local Authorities in exercising their market surveillance functions at the UK border. Working across teams such as Policy and Delivery to allow current and new policy to be implemented.
- Review and analysis of Operational Proposals to confirm that they are fit for purpose or identify the need to change and build evidence to support this, working with the G7’s to proactively consider enhancing UK-wide join up between key stakeholders with the aim of improving market surveillance activity at the border.
- Administrative functions to support 2 G7’s and to allow liaison with internal and external stakeholders ensuring minutes are taken and actions followed up. Ensuring that an audit trail is kept for the decision-making processes in our work.

**Person specification**:
**Skills & Experience**:
We would love to hear from you if you have:

- Operational or Policy skills (or both) to analyse policy steers and work up processes to embed them into OPSS BAU operations as well as undertaking bespoke operational projects.
- The ability to grasp complex issues and use initiative to influence and present ideas/options in a clear, structured way to seniors.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to upward manage and be able to undertake administration tasks with high attention to detail.
- Experience of building and supporting positive working relationships at all levels being confident in managing relationships with a range of individuals from both internal and external organisations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage and influence a range of partners.

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