Regulatory Delivery Officer
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,254 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £34,254 - £36,142 London: £38,138 - £39, 994 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 July 2025 |
| Location: | SW1H 9NA |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405957/2 |
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. 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.
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
We are looking to recruit a HEO Regulatory Delivery Officer into the Regulation Impact Area at OPSS. The Regulation Impact Area’s work has real world impact, protecting people and places from product related harm.
We regulate products across a broad range of sectors across the UK economy. As the national product regulator, we enforce a range of product-related regulations, deliver evidence-based solutions, and support business to meet their legal obligations. We enforce and deliver regulation with proportionality, through enforcement, engagement, and collaboration across-Government, and with local, national, and international regulators. We are a risk-based regulator, sharing our expertise and knowledge to lead and influence on both the domestic and global stage.
This vacancy sits within the Products and Sectors Regulation business area - this team is responsible for regulating sectors that have obligations relating to products safety, security, environmental, accuracy and energy efficiency. Our work spans most industry sectors, supporting Government priorities, by working closely with and on behalf of other Departments to deliver shared outcomes. This includes supporting growth, through providing a robust and fair regulatory environment in which businesses have confidence to invest and grow, whilst continually ensuring that consumers, places, and the environment are protected from product related harm. Our work also includes regulating products in new and emerging sectors, supporting business growth through innovation.
You will be joining a newly formed team with varying responsibilities, including developing the organisational approach to regulating new and emerging sectors and working across government and industry to address product safety risks relating to e-bike, e-scooters and their associated components.
This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic and motivated individuals to make positive change happen within and beyond OPSS, and who are keen to build a stimulating career as a regulatory professional. We offer a wide-ranging development package, which includes both internal and external learning and development opportunities. Our Regulation Impact Area is growing to meet the challenges of the future, and there are plenty of opportunities for people committed to their professional development, who are adaptable and flexible in their outlook, and can embrace the opportunities presented by an evolving team.
This campaign will seek to establish a reserve list of candidates from which other HEO vacancies across the Regulation Impact Area may be filled in the future.
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