Ofcom
Making communications work for everyone, https://careers.ofcom.org.uk/
Requirements of the role
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, and wireless devices. We’re also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place. 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
The Strategy & Policy team is responsible for setting Ofcom’s overarching strategy and driving the direction of Ofcom’s work across all the sectors it regulates. We undertake horizon-scanning, from thinking about what the development of the next-generation of wireless technologies and generative AI means for the communications sector, to assessing the future of TV distribution. We anticipate the future for the online world and the communications sectors, so that Ofcom can rise to the challenge that the digital transformation poses to making communications work for everyone. We draw insights from research and analysis of the sectors we regulate to ensure that Ofcom has the right evidence to prioritise work and make decisions. We work collaboratively across Ofcom, helping teams to think strategically about policy outcomes, making the most of Ofcom’s research and insights.
We do this by:
- Providing market and policy insight – we work to understand what the telecoms, media and technology sectors will look like in the future to inform Ofcom’s policy work and strategic direction;
- Defining Ofcom’s corporate strategy – we work with senior management and the Board to define Ofcom’s future direction;
- Providing thought leadership on emerging policy issues – we work with other teams to establish Ofcom’s position on new or cross-cutting policy issues; and
- Driving Ofcom’s priority policy projects – we develop and steer major projects that set the future direction of regulation in our sectors.
The purpose and scope of the role
As an Associate in the team, you will help to steer the development of policy across Ofcom’s work, including in online safety, broadcasting, telecoms, spectrum and post. In doing so, you will conduct research and analysis to improve Ofcom’s understanding of emerging policy issues. You will lead the drafting of relevant documents for internal and external audiences to outline policy issues and implications (e.g. presentations to senior management, consultation documents for external audiences). You will project manage the delivery of some of the teams’ priority projects, and work with colleagues from across the organisation to develop consensus on Ofcom’s strategy, policy and future direction.
You will gain a breadth of experiences working across the teams’ functions on an exciting range of emerging policy issues in the telecoms, media and technology sectors. The work you do will have a real, long term impact in sectors that affect all of us.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Policy development: You will conduct research and apply evidence to develop policy on a wide range of issues, from online safety to telecoms. You will think creatively about policy problems and develop effective and evidence-based solutions to them.
- Project management: You will plan effectively and manage project work to ensure the timely delivery of key outputs, with the ability to remain flexible in the face of change, and adjust to shifts.
- Scanning horizons: You will have an eagerness to learn about potential future developments in the telecoms, media and technology sectors. You will grasp the bigger picture and implications for Ofcom and share these insights with colleagues and potentially externally.
- Promotion of Ofcom’s values: You will promote the Ofcom’s values of excellence, agility, empowerment, collaboration and respect in how you work.
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ViewLocation
Manchester, EdinburghContract type
Full time, Permanent
Profession
Associate, Strategy
Working pattern
Flexible working, Hybrid
Closing Date
16/12/2024