Civil Aviation Authority Senior Policy Advisor
| Posting date: | 11 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,848 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 August 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 420621/1 |
Summary
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, high-profile policy area, collaborating with finance experts and policymakers to shape strategy and influence senior decisions?
Have you proven your ability to deliver results in a high-stakes, public-facing environment?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Aviation Directorate works to maintain the UK’s position as a world leader in aviation. We work hard to support a strong aviation sector that helps the UK exert its influence across the world. We work with the sector to ensure that investment, trade, jobs and social opportunities, which aviation creates, allows our country to thrive – connecting all the regions of the UK with an increasingly globalised society.
The CAA Sponsorship team sits within the Aviation Commercial, Strategy and Sponsorship Division whose work includes monitoring and interventions in commercial aviation, the Aviation Futures Forum, and the rights of consumers including those with disabilities, the overall aviation strategy. The Sponsorship Team will maintain its portfolio of oversight of the CAA/DfT relationship, CAA grants and CAA appointments.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DfT: Department for Transport Central - Department for Transport Careers
The CAA Sponsorship Senior Policy Advisor will also act as one of the main links between the Department and the CAA. The role involves collaborative working with the CAA, and the wider Aviation Directorate to manage the governance, funding, priorities, policy and performance of the CAA. The role requires flexibility to ensure ministerial and Director expectations are met and that the CAA remains reactive to external factors outside of its control.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to
Regular communication with the CAA Strategy team to drive and monitor delivery against the government’s priorities and key policy areas set by the Secretary of State.Working closely with the Aviation and Heathrow Directorate, Finance, Public Bodies Centre of Excellence and the Public Appointments Team to understand key processes and policy and drive forward changes and improvements.Supporting the government grant funding provided to the CAA on an annual basis and the monitoring of those grant payments and any additional audits to ensure the CAA are meeting their planned KPIs and milestones.Managing the ministerial response to the CAA’s annual consultation on changes to regulatory charges to an exacting timetable including commissioning analytical assurance and collaborating with HM Treasury.Hosting the Sponsorship Board; working through the implications of the Spending review; and getting the ball rolling on new internal reporting processes for grant management.Providing briefings for the Director, Director General, Permanent Secretary and ministers for their governance meetings with the CAA’s Chair and CEO.Supporting the implementation of the recommendations from the recent commissions from the Prime Minister’s Office.Lead on regular correspondence regarding the CAA from the public and coordinate briefings with other government departments and the CAA.For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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