Delivery Lead
| Posting date: | 13 January 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,156 to £48,817 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £41,156 - £45,112 London: £44,942 - £48, 817 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 January 2025 |
| Location: | B4 6BS |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 385461/1 |
Summary
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.
The Role and Our Team:
The Local Authority Unit is the key point of contact between OPSS as National Regulator, and local authorities (local regulators), responsible for overseeing and coordinating OPSS’s operational relationship with local authorities to enable them to deliver across our core focus regulatory areas.
We deliver a range of activities and products aimed at supporting Local Authorities to deliver their statutory functions including communication and training. We also help OPSS colleagues to engage more effectively with Local Authorities, whether it is seeking views and input into policy development or OPSS service delivery; or ensuring relevant authorities are kept informed of OPSS regulatory activity.
The work of the team is interesting and varied, and we are involved in almost every aspect of the work of OPSS as national regulator. Given this, we play a pivotal role in identifying synergies and areas of joined up working across OPSS.
We have a strong reputation within the organisation as being a supportive and inclusive team to work in and with. We work across all 3 OPSS sites and meet as a team once a month, visiting locations in rotation, therefore occasional overnight stays might be required
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