Operational Policy Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 06 Ionawr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £41,156 i £48,817 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £41, 156 - £45,112 London: £44,942 - £48,817 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Ionawr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | SW1H 9NA |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 382797/2 |
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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.
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.
We are recruiting for 1 SEO within the Border Delivery team in the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS). This is a new and exciting team which contributes to the UK’s National Quality Infrastructure (NQI). It helps to ensure businesses and consumers can have confidence that products and services they purchase meet regulatory requirements. It will help deliver key work-streams for post EU-Exit UK, against a backdrop of changes and challenges to the GB and NI border. Specifically, it will support the delivery of market surveillance and regulatory operational procedures and guidance that underpins the OPSS policy of the UK border and inland activities (the checking of products for safety and compliance). The successful candidate will provide robust support for two G7’s in the team. They will provide administrative support alongside bespoke operational policy projects as required to utilise their existing skills and to develop themselves further.
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.
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