Head of Regulation Reform Policy
| Posting date: | 26 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | £67,170 to £78,192 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £67,170-£76,117 London: £70,845-£78,192 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 379172/6 |
Summary
- 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. As set out by the Prime Minister at the International Investment Summit, regulation is one of this Government’s four priorities for driving economic growth.
This is a critical role in an responsible for delivering the first part of RD’s mission, to reform the existing stock of regulations to minimise bureaucracy and modernise regulations, and to develop new regulatory frameworks in innovative sectors to encourage economic growth. The role’s key responsibilities are:
- Delivering a programme of high profile deep-dives into priority Industrial Strategy sectors to identify regulatory reform opportunities and work collaboratively with departments to deliver these;
- Develop a long term programme of reform beyond the initial deep dives to identify how regulatory reform can support the long term goals of the Industrial Strategy;
- Engage confidently with a range of stakeholders to generate reform ideas, including businesses, think tanks and academia;
- Challenge departments on emerging regulatory proposals to ensure that they are pro-growth and do not introduce new burdens;
- Advise Ministers and work closely with special advisers to ensure reform proposals have political support and are aligned with wider priorities;
- Provide excellent leadership to a team of six, setting direction and helping the team to develop;
- Playing an important wider corporate leadership role in RD.
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