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Gambling Levy Strategy Lead, Gambling and Lotteries

Job details
Posting date: 25 March 2025
Salary: £39,365 to £53,289 per year
Additional salary information: London £42,902 - £53,289, National £39,365 - £48,608 + benefits.
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 07 April 2025
Location: SW1A 2BQ
Company: Government Recruitment Service
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: 397632/2

Summary

This role sits within the Gambling and Lotteries team, which is responsible for gambling and lotteries policy across Great Britain. Our team of ~25 people work on some of the most challenging policy and delivery priorities in the department, balancing consumer choice with protection from harm.

Across the team our work includes:

  • Working on a range of gambling reforms, including reducing gambling harm for vulnerable people and protecting children and young people. This includes the introduction of a statutory levy on gambling profits and online slots stake limits announced towards the end of 2024.
  • Ensuring the National Lottery continues to thrive and transform our communities, having raised over £50bn for the sports, arts, heritage and community sectors in the UK.
  • Leading on horse and greyhound racing policy, charity lotteries and free prize draws - traditional policy making to monitoring innovative new markets
  • Ensuring our regulatory frameworks are fit for purpose by considering how changes in markets, technology and customer behaviour have created new opportunities and new risks
  • Working closely with a wide range of stakeholders, including the Minister for Gambling, the Gambling Commission, lived experience groups, industry and trade bodies.

The Gambling and Lotteries team sits within the Sport and Gambling Directorate, which is responsible for all aspects of Government sport and gambling policy.

The Government has made a landmark commitment to tackling the harm caused by gambling. As part of this work, DCMS is establishing a Statutory Gambling Levy charged to gambling operators, which will raise around £100m per year. The Levy will fund crucial research, prevention and treatment of gambling-related harms.

We are looking for an organised self-starter able to take ownership of the management of the new levy system. This is a high-profile role overseeing a major programme of work with parliamentary, media and stakeholder interest. The successful candidate will need to think strategically, work constructively across Whitehall and with a range of senior stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Overseeing delivery of the Levy in line with Ministerial and departmental vision
  • Developing long term strategy for levy policy, including designing five year review, assessing effectiveness of governance structures, evaluation
  • Providing secretariat function for a Levy Programme Board (LPB) and a Levy Advisory Group (LAG)
  • Advising Ministers on arising issues relating to direction and impact of the levy
  • Engaging with the Gambling Commission and other key stakeholders, including HM Treasury, Department of Health, and NHS England, and others.
  • Lead on projects and issues as they arise within the wider Gambling & Lotteries team

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