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This role will close at 00:01 on Monday 9th September and therefore we advise getting your application by no later than midnight on Sunday 8th September.
About Ofcom
Ofcom is the regulator for the communications services that we use and rely on each day. We make sure people get the best from their broadband, home phone and mobile services, as well as keeping an eye on TV and radio.
Our culture is clear – we live by our values: Empowerment; Excellence; Collaboration; Agility and Respect. These define how we work to deliver our purpose, now and in the future. The behaviours which support these values set the path for a fully inclusive and innovative culture at Ofcom.
We focus not only on what we do, but how we do it. We pride ourselves on being an organisation of people who genuinely care about helping others.
About the team you’ll be part of
The Online Safety Group’s purpose is to ensure UK citizens have a safer life online, by implementing and overseeing the requirements under the Online Safety Act 2023. The Group is responsible for delivering online safety policy, supervising online services, and building the technical expertise to ensure the aims of the regime are met.
The Strategy Delivery Team lies at the heart of the Online Safety Group. The team supports and enables the rest of the Group to deliver successfully. We do this by setting our Online Safety strategy and setting clear goals and timelines for the Online Safety regime. We help teams stay on track – including by managing timelines, budget, resources, corporate reporting and governance for the Online Safety Programme.
The Strategy Delivery Team is also responsible for other cross-cutting operational activities, such as leading a triage function, managing stakeholder engagement, and ensuring operational readiness.
We are recruiting several Strategy Managers and Strategy Advisors to join our Strategy Delivery team.
The purpose and scope of the role
The Strategy Advisor will support and contribute to projects across the Strategy Delivery team. They will use project management, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills to help ensure all our strategy and delivery work stays on track. Working with colleagues across the Online Safety Group and wider Ofcom, you’ll help ensure our ambitions for the Online Safety regime are focused in the right areas and stay on track. Our roles are diverse and appropriate for problem solvers, innovative thinkers, skilled project managers and/or people with a regulatory background. But we welcome applicants from a variety of backgrounds.
Your Key Responsibilities
This role is varied and will evolve over time in line with team priorities, allowing you to gain a broad range of opportunities and expertise to further your career at Ofcom. This could include: working across teams to refresh our priorities for the regime; contributing to operational projects for the successful implementation of the new regime (such as ICT and/or process mapping); working in our triage function; helping with our stakeholder engagement approach; supporting our risk and governance processes; and more.
Key responsibilities may include:
• Helping to develop cross-team workplans for projects across the programme, in collaboration with teams across Ofcom - to ensure we deliver our big goals.
• Supporting aspects of project management across the Online Safety programme, including supporting our Video-Sharing Platforms’ work programme.
• Supporting engagement with external stakeholders and developing stakeholder engagement strategies and materials.
• Contributing to the delivery of external publications, to ensure a consistency narrative across all of Ofcom’s OS documents.
• Working with Ofcom’s teams to bring together budget proposals for running the OS regime, alongside helping to keep in-year spending on track (working closely with Finance).
• Analysing new and emerging harms as part of the OS triage function and developing recommendations on what we do next – communicating to colleagues at all levels.
• Supporting development of core operational processes to ensure the effective and efficient running of our OS operations.
We will allocate work based on business need, skillset, and interest.
The skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need for success
We welcome people with a keen interest or practical knowledge of Online Safety regulation and our mission to create a safer life online for people in the UK. We are specifically looking for people with the ability to:
• Evaluating Problems: Identify and solve issues by using well-thought-out strategies. Consider different angles and potential solutions to resolve concerns.
• Generating Insights: Use evidence-driven methods to gather insights, and make well-founded decisions based on thorough analysis.
• Trailblazing Ideas: Bring fresh perspectives through creative and orig
Location: Edinburgh
Posted: Aug. 22, 2024, 12:25 p.m.
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