Policy and Legislation Advisor
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £57,026 to £63,481 per year |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 July 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | TW11 0JZ |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 358905/2 |
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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.
We are Inclusive
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible and recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We are recruiting for a stretching and rewarding Grade 7 role working in our Product Safety Policy Impact area. We are seeking candidates with the passion and ability to make a real difference to our work and team culture.
The role sits in the Legislation, Powers and Reform team which works to ensure we have the right legislation in place to implement the UK’s product safety framework, from marking to conformity assessment processes, to assessing that the framework remains fit for the modern and digital age. This includes an extensive programme of communications, engagement, and policy development internally, externally and across a range of other Government Departments.
The role will report to the Grade 6 Head of Team, working closely with the wider Grade 7 cohort across product safety policy and other OPSS teams. You will also have line management responsibility.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and resilient candidate to lead delivery of all OPSS’s legislation activity, working closely with the Policy Impact Area and central DBT legislation colleagues to manage and deliver OPSS’s programme of (largely) secondary legislation proactively identifying changes needed and supporting OPSS teams on delivery of Statutory Instruments (SIs), from training on process and procedures to supporting on documentation and debates, coordinating engagement with the Devolved Administrations and having oversight of our assimilated law interests. You will work closely with a range of teams across OPSS, cross-Whitehall Departments, DBT colleagues and Legal. There will be a need to understand their policy deliverables and the potential to develop policy of a cross-cutting nature and where a consistent legislative approach is needed. In addition, the Team has responsibility for ensuring we have the right primary powers in place and will be undertaking a bill bid as soon as possible, which could result in being part of a wider team delivering a Bill in the future. However, the role will initially be involved in supporting the primary legislation bidding process and considering how policy proposals can be implemented legislatively. As such, experience of primary legislation processes would be useful.
Specifically in the role you will lead on:
- Proactive engagement with policy officials across OPSS to coordinate OPSS policy requirements into the OPSS legislative programme and in particular with the policy teams developing proposals for a new regulatory framework;
- Support in our bid for primary legislation and potentially becoming part of a Bill Delivery Team, and considering mitigating options if there is no immediate opportunity for primary legislation
- Lead on delivery of all OPSS SIs;
- Manage OPSS’s assimilated law programme with the DBT Smarter Regulation Team;
- Working with other Government departments to ensure legislative planning and delivery aligns;
- Developing policy on cross-cutting areas and where a consistent approach to legislating is required;
- Line management of an HEO
Please note that this role is open to candidates working in either our London or Teddington office. When you are required to give a preference, Twickenham will appear rather than Teddington, so please be aware that you should choose this option if you wish to be based in Teddington.