D3/G6 Head of Insolvency Practitioner Regulation
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,013 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £70,013 - £79,948 (National) £74,564 - £85,144 (London) Please note that negotiations for the Insolvency Service 2024 Pay Award are still ongoing. We will update this information in future adverts once the pay award is finalised. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 407573/4 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an highly capable individual looking for a key leadership role in an organisation that makes a real difference to the public and wider economy.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!
Insolvency Practitioner Regulation Section (IPRS) sits within Strategy, Policy and Analysis Directorate of the Insolvency Service; and acts on behalf of Ministers as the oversight regulator for the insolvency profession.
This is a time of exciting change for the team and the wider sector, and the successful candidate will bring to bear their excellent leadership and stakeholder skills, alongside exceptional and inclusive management experience in a complex statutory setting.
Insolvency law and its regulatory landscape are complex, and the successful postholder will benefit from strong insolvency knowledge, or comparable company law, regulatory, or relevant sector or policy understanding.
Insolvency Practitioner Regulation Section (IPRS) has overall responsibility for monitoring the activities of the Recognised Professional Bodies (RPBs), and for improving standards within the insolvency profession in our capacity as oversight regulator.
The regulatory framework is governed by statutory objectives and IPRS has powers to issue sanctions against the regulators for poor performance as well as to take action against insolvency practitioners for misconduct.
The work of IPRS includes:
- monitoring the regulatory activities of the RPBs which licence and regulate IPs to ensure that they are undertaken in accordance with common standards and statutory regulatory objectives;
- developing regulatory policy, and leading across the regulatory community collaboratively to address key threats and issues;
- providing guidance to the insolvency profession on law and practice; and
- responding to public and Ministerial correspondence, administering an important complaint 'gateway' for the public.
During 2025, the post holder will also lead the team in commencing new a new high-profile function: setting standards for the profession on behalf of the Secretary of State.
Responsibilities
The jobholder will be required to:
- set the strategic direction for regulating the insolvency profession in line with Government priorities and regulatory best practice, including in repsect of growth, regulatory efficicency, and protection of the public;
- lead and expand the IPRS team in the delivery of its objectives, balancing its reactive, proactive and statutory work, and ensuring the team continues to be highly regarded, motivated and supported;
- take active part in wider leadership and management of the directorate, as well as the wider Agency.
- play a key role in helping to develop and implement policy changes for the regulatory regime, working closely with the Policy team and DBT Legal;
- play a leading role in supporting diversity and inclusion in the wider sector;
- provide advice and support to senior colleagues and Ministers (including dealing with Ministerial correspondence, PQs and providing support in debates) on issues related to IPs and the regulatory regime;
- build highly effective relationships with key stakeholders in the sector including the RPBs, other regulators, charities, creditors and the insolvency trade body; and
- confidently lead representational work, speaking at industry conferences and events on regulatory matters.
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