About the job

Job summary

You will lead a growing team and be part of the wider SRD leadership team. The post requires senior engagement within DBT, across government and with a range of external stakeholders including business groups and regulators. You will lead on the third ‘pillar’ of regulation – the landscape of independent regulators (the other two pillars being the Stock of regulation on the statute book, and the flow of new regulations via the Better Regulation Framework). In particular, this role leads cross-government work on economic regulation.

Job description

You will be responsible for the following; ​

• Advising Ministers on appropriate reforms to economic regulation and responding to a public consultation on next steps​
• Engaging with sponsoring departments of economic regulators to ensure that cross-cutting reforms are dovetailed with individual departments’ work  ​
• Engaging with HMT and Cabinet Office and the Office for Investment to ensure that reforms improve the UK investment climate​
• Leading market analysis to ensure that reforms are fully evidence-based​
• Leading the directorate’s corporate support team 

Person specification

Essential Criteria​

• Exceptional leadership skills, with an ability to build, motivate and inspire teams through periods of ambiguity, comfortable working in a complex environment and across organisation boundaries to deliver outcomes. Proactive in contributing to leadership of broader Directorate and Group ​
• Strategic thinker, able to spot interdependencies and opportunities in the bigger picture and distil complex ideas into straight-forward outcome-focussed approaches ​
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships with a broad range of senior stakeholders and the ability to communicate clearly and succinctly to a variety of audiences, including Ministers and international stakeholders ​
• Strong policy delivery and use of evidence skills, comfortable with drawing on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative sources to inform consideration and lead by example in a better regulation approach to policy making and delivery ​
• Track record of delivering at pace, leading teams to overcome obstacles and achieve timely outcome-focussed delivery ​

Desirable Criteria​

• Experience and understanding of regulatory issues 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply​

Please follow the online instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply for this role.  Applications must be submitted no later than 23:55 on 28/01/2024.  You will be asked to upload the two documents outlined below. It is essential you add your full name to both documents:​

1. A CV setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role.  Please provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years.​
2. A Supporting Statement of around two pages of A4, providing examples of how your experience meets the essential criteria.​

Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. ​

If you encounter any issues or are unable to apply online please contact SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk  in the first instance​.

For further information please see the candidate pack attached​.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.