Job summary
Recognition of professional qualifications is a crucial lever for the DBT to achieve its priorities of removing barriers to business and helping UK businesses to sell their services overseas. 37% of UK services exports in 2022 were from business services sectors in which workers legally need a qualification to practise their profession.
As such, the Regulated Professions Policy (RPP) team in TPIN has a high-profile and indispensable role to play in delivering the Government�s trade in services objectives and labour market outcomes.
The Regulated Professions Advisory Functions Grade 7 team is responsible for ensuring that lack of information on how to work in regulated (and chartered) professions in the UK is not a barrier to professional mobility. The team is responsible for the development and maintenance of the UK�s central database of regulated professions � the, alongside associated legislation to gather data from regulators, ensure regulators share data with domestic and overseas counterparts, and to develop an advisory service to support professionals into UK regulated professions.
Job description
You will play an essential part in managing, maintaining and raising awareness of the UK�s central digital advisory function for regulated professions. The role will involve:
1. Leading on the management and maintenance of the Regulated Professions Register � a world-leading central repository for regulated professions in the UK.
2. Overseeing the team�s contribution to a commercial procurement exercise, managing the team�s relationship with DBT�s digital teams, and ensuring the procurement exercise is delivered on time and to budget.
3. Supporting engagement with regulators, devolved governments and across Whitehall to commission large datasets and changes to legislation, where required.
4. Communicating with, and influencing regulators, to ensure they keep their entries on the Register up to date, understand what is needed from them, and able to persuade them to engage.
5. Supporting the delivery of an enhancement programme for the Register, including managing the team�s relationship with an external commercial supplier.
6. Establishing strong working relationships within the department, including other policy directorates with an interest in the Register, as well as with analysts, lawyers, and ministerial Private Offices.
7. Supporting work on legislation, which may include working with lawyers to draft regulations, and managing the parliamentary process to take legislation through parliament, as required.
8. Preparing written briefing and advice to senior officials and ministers; contributing to briefings as required; ensuring relationships with regulators and chartered bodies are upheld and delivering for the whole team.
9. Contributing to work within the wider team. This will include, but is not limited to, engagement with internal and external stakeholders, project planning and evaluation, providing input into cross-team briefings, research papers and planning, and working across multiple portfolios to develop capabilities and expertise in all areas of the whole team.
Person specification
Essential criteria
10. Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to confidently communicate complex policy concepts to internal and external audiences, as well as the ability to draft complex documents at pace.
11. Ability to work at pace, remaining flexible and adaptable to successfully deliver priorities in a fast-moving environment.
12. Strong interpersonal skills with a proven track record of working with a range of stakeholders, in particular commercial colleagues.
13. Keen eye for detail and the ability to grapple with complex and technical policy issues, including legal advice that may be unfamiliar.
14. Ability to identify the strategic drivers for your work area and the links with other work areas in the directorate and the department.
15. Strong communicating and influencing skills, in particular across domestic policy areas and with internal commercial/finance stakeholders.
16. Ability and confidence to communicate with stakeholders who may be reluctant to engage or where plans and deliverables are uncertain.
17. Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage yours, and the wider team�s workload effectively.
18. Confident self-starter that can work independently, particularly as your manager may be based in a different office location.
Desirable criteria
19. Knowledge or experience of managing websites or databases � or a willingness to quickly undertake training in order to develop necessary capability.
20. Knowledge or experience of undertaking public sector commercial procurement � or a willingness to undertake training in order to develop necessary capability.
21. Knowledge or experience coordinating government policy � or a willingness to quickly undertake policy profession training in order to develop necessary capability.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
22. Communicating and Influencing
23. Delivering at Pace
24. Managing a Quality Service
25. Working Together
26. Changing and Improving
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
27. Delivering at Pace
28. Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
Alongside your salary of �32,858, Department for Business and Trade contributes �9,518 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
29. Learning and development tailored to your role
30. An environment with flexible working options
31. A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
32. A with an employer contribution of
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.