About the job

Job summary

Summer intern programme – Starting 1st July

You will undertake a single placement in the Strategy, Policy and Reform Directorate working specifically in the Access, Licensing and International Team.

Commencing 1 July 2024, this development programme runs for 8 weeks until 23 August, and is packed with a variety of opportunities, designed to provide you with first-hand experience of our sector. Your programme will offer you hands-on experience with the Access, Licensing and International Team. By working on live projects and activities, you will gain a broad grounding of what drives our organisation and what we deliver. 

During this summer placement, you will gain meaningful and valuable work experience which will support you in your ongoing career journey.

You’ll be set clear objectives at the start of your placement and will complete mid placement and end of placement reviews with your placement manager.

Job description

Access & Licensing Executive

 

Working across our Access, Licensing and International Team and primarily with Passenger Track Access and Freight Track Access, you will join us at an exciting time as we increase the transparency of industry processes and showcase the value we add to industry and the taxpayer.

 

You will be playing a key role in enabling operators to deliver services across the UK rail network. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to become involved and support us in policy and operational delivery workstreams and for you to develop key stakeholder relationship experience from a regulatory perspective.

 

You will gain experience in holding to account through monitoring performance, producing reports and driving improvements through policy implementation which supports ORR in the delivery of our statutory duties.

You will own and lead a project strand within our continuous improvement project. You will create an internal process for the monitoring of access rights reviews for either freight or passenger track access as well as the guidance and desk instructions which underpin the governance of this. You will support our external communication project, considering how we communicate with stakeholders about our work and support industry expertise through the improvement of our external knowledgebase.

 

You will get the chance to experience being a key member of a high performing team and gaining experiences that can support your career development.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Benefits

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.