About the job

Job summary

Team information

The Regulatory Policy team develop and deliver a range of policy projects across the rail industry. This includes leading ORR’s internal policy profession, working with colleagues across ORR on sustainable development and environment policy and assessing the effectiveness of Network Rail’s stakeholder engagement.

Job description

Job Purpose

The Regulatory Policy Manager will both lead on and support a variety of policy projects, which help to deliver ORR’s wider organisational objectives.

You will be a self-starter who can use initiative to solve problems which contributes to the successful delivery of projects you are working on.

You will have previous experience and understanding of public policy and/or regulation, and of managing projects. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across ORR and the rail industry.

This role requires taking a flexible approach to help ORR deliver obligations on a range of rail policy projects and you may be required to work wider across the organisation with colleagues across different functional teams as projects develop.

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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Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.