Regulation Directorate - Data Policy Advisor
| Posting date: | 16 May 2025 |
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| 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: | 04 June 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405690/6 |
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.
The Regulation Directorate’s Digital team sits within the Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform Group in the Department for Business and Trade.
The team is undertaking exciting work to transform regulatory content across GOV.UK and to provide innovative digital solutions to support access to and analysis of regulatory data. Our Data Squad creates and analyses legislation and regulation data to improve business experiences of GOV.UK and regulatory reform.
This role will help us scale our work to support business access to regulatory information and introduce technological innovation to the way that we access data.
The work is varied, fast-paced and innovative.
The Directorate is inclusive, friendly, collaborative, supportive and embraces genuinely flexible working.
- You will be working across various data projects focused on making regulatory data (legislation, guidance and standards) more accessible.
- You will confidently manage relationships with stakeholders across various departments and public bodies.
- You will support the development and delivery of several data projects involving the tagging of legislative data, the training of Large Language Models (LLM) and the implementation of new data standards amongst other duties.
- You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on project delivery.
- Develop subject matter expertise in data analysis, Large Language Models and the regulatory landscape.
- Lead the delivery of the projects and workstreams you are responsible for to agreed objectives and timescales.
- Conduct data analysis using traditional data science methods as well as machine learning and LLM methods and Data creation.
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