Closing Date: 10/02/2025
Group: Strategy and Research Group
Management Level: Senior Associate
Job Type: Permanent
Job Description:
Please note that this role will close at 00:01 on Monday 10 February, and therefore we advise getting your application in no later than midnight on Sunday 9 February.
How to Apply:
Please submit your CV, along with a covering letter of no more than 400 words outlining your suitability and experience for the role based on the essential criteria below. Please also outline if you have a preference for one of the specialisms listed below. Please upload your CV and covering letter as one document.
About Ofcom:
As the UK’s communications regulator, we’re delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected with each other. Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, wireless devices and online services. And we need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help us achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.
About the team you’ll be part of:
We are looking for curious, analytical candidates who enjoy getting stuck into new challenges. Your background might be in industry, consulting or the public sector, but you should have experience working in or around at least one of the industries that Ofcom regulates: broadcasting (including on-demand), online services and social media, telecoms and digital infrastructure, or postal services. We expect you to have a passion for delivering good outcomes for citizens and consumers across our remit.
The Strategy and Policy team:
The Strategy and Policy team plays a pivotal role in setting Ofcom’s strategic direction and ensuring that the organisation has a clear pathway to deliver against its key priorities. Key responsibilities include:
* Thought leadership on emerging policy issues: working collaboratively with other teams to decide Ofcom’s position on new or cross-cutting consumer, public policy and competition issues.
* Horizon scanning and market/strategic insight: understanding how the communications sector may develop in future to inform our wider policy programme.
* Delivering Ofcom’s strategic priorities: leading major projects that set the future direction of regulation in the sector.
* Ofcom’s corporate strategy: working with senior management and the Board to set Ofcom’s strategy, define its priorities and assess their delivery.
The purpose and scope of the role:
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the most strategically significant organisational and policy questions that Ofcom faces across the breadth of its remit. You will ensure that our projects run on schedule and produce high-quality outputs, while producing high-quality strategy analysis. You will coordinate delivery teams and work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Your key responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will consist of a combination of the areas below, with the relative weight of each to be agreed between you and your line manager from time to time in view of business needs.
* Horizon scanning: Programme management of products in the wider Strategy & Policy Horizon Scanning portfolio including insights briefings.
* Project management and delivery: Managing strategic projects, under the guidance of more senior colleagues, including taking ownership of key day-to-day responsibilities.
* Analytical work and thought leadership: Applying robust analytical approaches, including identifying the key questions to answer and developing hypotheses.
* Team management: Taking responsibility for managing, motivating and developing junior colleagues in your capacity as Project Manager or Director.
The skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need for success:
Essential:
* You must have a proven track-record in at least one of the following areas:
o Strategy development: experience of leading and undertaking strategic analysis.
o Policy development: establishing frameworks for thinking about regulatory issues.
o Horizon scanning: proven ability to monitor emerging industry developments.
* Sector understanding: solid understanding of the structure and trends within at least one of the following industries: broadcasting, online services, telecoms or postal services.
* Executing plans: managing complex projects and teams.
* Articulating ideas: clear communication both orally and in writing.
* Channelling influence: successful relationship building with senior stakeholders.
* Harmonising work: collaborating effectively with colleagues from different specialisms.
* Autonomy: working autonomously and effectively with guidance from project sponsors.
Desirable:
* Empowering development: managing and motivating others.
* Stakeholder engagement: building relationships with senior stakeholders.
* Agility: ability to work at pace in changing environments.
Ofcom has a clear mission: to make communications work for everyone. We aim to recruit from the widest pool of candidates possible – no matter your social background, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender or disability.
Where positions are listed as full-time, we remain open to flexible working options. We also warmly welcome applicants who are returning to the workforce after a break. Our recruitment processes prioritise accessibility and inclusivity.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer interviews to disabled applicants who meet essential criteria for advertised roles.
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