Policy Manager

Policy Manager Edinburgh or London £Competitive Team Overview The role of Ofcom’s Competition Group is to help businesses compete fairly in the telecommunications, postal and broadcasting sectors. We intervene with regulation where we think this can make a significant difference to how communications services work for consumers. Policy-making is a vital part of what we do at Ofcom. It involves understanding a problem that people are experiencing and designing options and solutions to solve it. Great policy-making involves working together to pool expertise and ideas to get the best results. We work with teams and groups across Ofcom to improve outcomes for consumers by helping businesses compete to provide a range of high-quality services. Purpose of the Role We are looking for two people to join our Competition Policy team based in either Edinburgh or London. You will work to develop UK-wide competition policies in the industries we regulate and make competition work for UK consumers and businesses. As a Policy Manager, you will solve complex problems, working with specialists including economists and lawyers, in cross-site teams. Ofcom’s corporate values are excellence, collaboration, agility and empowerment. These are reflected in everything we do. We welcome applications from people who are keen to contribute to these values and have the necessary skills for the role. Requirements of the Role You will support your project managers in delivering one or more projects or workstreams, taking ownership of the delivery of a workstream or an aspect of the project and managing your own workload. You will produce workplans, identify deliverables and agree timescales. You will work with colleagues from different specialisms to ensure milestones are met. You will contribute to policy development by actively participating in group discussions, presenting policy options and working with specialist colleagues to analyse and develop the policy options available. You will produce internal documents that support our policy making and support the publication of our proposals and decisions. This will include collating information from a range of different sources and communicating legal, economic and technical information clearly to a range of audiences. You will also contribute to other work supporting Ofcom’s corporate values, for example contributing to training and development and diversity and inclusion. Ofcom is an agile organisation and project teams often include colleagues based in different places. We use technology such as video calling to work together effectively. In line with government guidance on slowing the spread of coronavirus, Ofcom are moving to a digital approach for all recruitment. With immediate effect, all Ofcom interviews and assessment centres will be conducted digitally via Microsoft Teams (video meeting platform). If you are invited for an interview, we will provide you with more details on how we will run the digital interview process. Skills, knowledge and experience Our Competition Policy Associates come from a variety of different academic and career backgrounds and have developed their skills in many different roles and sectors. The core skills for the role are: Policy development: you will have experience or understanding of policy development in a regulated industry or government, or problem solving within a commercial organisation. Written communication: you will be able to write and edit professional documents, producing succinct and logical drafts. Face to face communication: we develop our policies through group discussion, so you need to be able to communicate arguments in person and be prepared to listen and contribute to debate. Project management: you will have experience of taking ownership of your own work, workstreams or small projects. You will be able to produce workplans, identifying deliverables and timescales, assist with the management of internal governance processes and manage input from other colleagues to ensure quality and timely delivery. Problem solving and analysis: you will be able to develop logical approaches to your research and analysis to understand key issues, respond to new information or evidence and generate credible options for action. Qualifications We will be looking for evidence of your ability to solve problems that have legal, economic and technology dimensions, to explain your thinking effectively to different audiences and to deliver projects. You do not require any specific academic qualifications for this role, but an undergraduate degree could be a relevant indicator, as could relevant professional experience. If you are interested in the role, we invite you to submit a covering letter (up to 500 words) explaining your relevant skills, knowledge and experience and why you want to join the Competition Policy team at Ofcom as a Policy Manager. Instead of a covering letter, you can send us a short video (up to two minutes). Please also ensure you have submitted your CV. We welcome applications from candidates who would like to work flexibly or part time, so please tell us what your preferred working arrangements are. Ofcom is an equal opportunities employer. It wishes to reflect the diversity of contemporary UK society and is therefore actively seeking to recruit colleagues from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as those who have a disability. Competences - Planning, project and programme management - Relationship management (internal and external) - Communication (written and oral) - Problem solving and analysis This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. Other organisations may call this role Policy Project Manager, Policy Programme Associate, Regulated Policy Manager, Policy & Compliance Manager, or Senior Policy Associate.