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Rail Reform Policy Lead

Job details
Posting date: 11 December 2024
Salary: £54,857 per year
Additional salary information: £54,857 (National Minimum) £59,686 (London Minimum)
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 18 December 2024
Location: London
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 382250/3

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. 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 we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Do you have effective communication skills with experience of delivering policy from consultation through to legislation?

Are you a strong leader with excellent experience of or the potential to motivate and empower a team to overcome complex policy challenges?

Would you relish the chance to be involved with our high-profile Rail Reform Programme, helping make a difference to millions of rail passengers every single day?

If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Policy professional to join our Financial, Commercial and Access Reform Division, and we would love to hear from you!

The Government has committed to overhauling the railways in Great Britain, putting passengers at the heart of the service. It has already delivered legislation to bring passenger services into public ownership as existing contracts expire. In the next stage of reform it will establish Great British Railways (GBR) as a new public body to deliver a unified system that focuses on reliable, affordable, high-quality, and efficient services; along with ensuring safety and accessibility.

This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of one of the largest change programme in Government to develop and deliver new policy that will have a big impact. A vital part of rail reform will be reform of the existing rules, regulations and processes for how operators such as freight and open access get onto the GBR managed infrastructure and how much they pay to access it.

The post sits within the access, funding and future passenger services policy division within the rail reform directorate. We lead on core policies, working with Ministers to shape the future rail model including how GBR will work effectively with the private sector and deliver benefits for passengers, taxpayers and freight users. We are an open and supportive team and work flexibly together to deliver in a changing environment.

In this role you will lead on reform of the Office for Rail and Road (ORR) in access and charging. This is a complex and controversial policy area and you will be working at pace to develop policy for inclusion in the proposed Rail Reform Bill. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across the Directorate, Great British Railways, the Rail Regulator and can expect to engage and present, what will potentially be seen as controversial policy proposals and ideas, to senior industry stakeholders.

This is a fantastic challenging and rewarding opportunity to influence policy, and to shape a key part of a major Government programme.

Responsibilities

Will include but not be limited to:

  • Leading and delivering reforms to the role of the regulator within the access and charging framework, that meet Ministers ambitions for a simpler, more efficient and integrated publicly owned railway under the new Great British Railways, that maximises value for both its customers and taxpayers’.
  • Lead, manage and develop your team, setting a clear direction and empowering and supporting them to identify and deliver the most appropriate options and outcomes for those reform workstreams your team is responsible for.
  • Lead the development of policy from initial development through to preparation of your teams section of the public consultation on reforms, ensuring cross-Government agreement and the subsequent Government response.
  • Lead on their own parts of the primary legislation to deliver reforms, ensuing they have anticipated the likely controversial parts of the legislation and prepared appropriate responses, so Ministers are well prepared for Parliamentary debates.
  • Manage stakeholder relationships and maintain these throughout the policy development process, communicating our position with confidence, impact and influence; and creating an open, honest environment for industry to engage with government.

For full details see role profile.

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Further information on policy roles in the Department can be found here https://careers.dft.gov.uk/policy/

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