Consumer Policy Advisers
| Posting date: | 27 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £39,384 to £46,715 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £39,384 - £43,169; London: £43,007 - £46,715 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 358822/2 |
Summary
Your responsibilities will include supporting the implementation of the recently passed Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act. You will have the opportunity to develop secondary legislation and take it through parliament. You will work closely with regulators and law enforcers to ensure that they are ready to use their new powers; and with businesses and consumer groups to ensure that they understand their obligations and rights. You will also have opportunities to contribute to or lead development of new policies e.g. to help empower individual consumers by expanding options for dispute resolution outside the court system, to facilitate sustainable consumption, or to strengthen local enforcement of consumer law.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a policy area that directly impacts everyone and is often in the public eye.
The consumer policy team sits within the Consumer and Competition Policy (CCP) Directorate in DBT. We develop policies that promote competitive, effective markets that lead to positive outcomes for businesses and consumers. We are committed to making CCP a great place to work, where everyone is valued for the skills and experiences they bring and develop, and has the support and opportunity to reach their goals.
Across the two roles, the key accountabilities include:
- Build and maintain constructive relationships with a range of stakeholders, particularly with local authority Trading Standards services, Competition and Markets Authority, senior leaders and other government departments to achieve progress on shared objectives.
- Synthesise and communicate detailed and technical policies clearly and succinctly to senior officials, ministers and/or external parties.
- Identify connections and interdependencies between workstreams, and work across boundaries to align priorities and activities, and to surface and resolve tensions.
- Grasp complex information and issues and use analysis, strategic thinking and creativity to solve problems.
- Develop in-depth knowledge of the consumer enforcement landscape and understand DBT’s role within it.