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About the Role

This role contributes to strategically significant organisational and policy questions across Ofcom's remit. The successful candidate will coordinate delivery teams and engage with internal and external stakeholders, working across all regulated sectors.

Responsibilities

• Managing strategic projects, including timelines, budget, governance, and stakeholder management.
• Taking an active role in setting project direction in dialogue with senior stakeholders.
• Overseeing or leading the delivery of high-quality reports and presenting results.
• Proactively managing and mitigating risks.
• Occasionally acting as Project Director, with responsibility for output quality and liaising with internal clients.
• Leading policy development in specific areas and providing advice.
• Developing and applying intellectually robust analytical approaches for commercial, public policy, or organisational issues.
• Contributing to debates about strategic, policy, and organisational issues, providing thought leadership.
• Representing Ofcom at external meetings and developing an external network.
• Managing, motivating, and developing junior colleagues.
• Contributing to the ongoing development of the team and Ofcom as an excellent place to work.

Requirements

• Demonstrable skills in executing plans, leading teams across projects, and managing progress against deadlines.
• Ability to shape projects and proactively identify necessary work.
• Experience leading strategic policy development, commercial strategy analysis, or internal corporate strategy and planning.
• Clear communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to produce publication-ready text and tailor arguments.
• Ability to produce effective presentations, including strong PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues from different teams, specialisms, and backgrounds.
• Ability to effectively manage upwards and proactively mitigate risks.
• Understanding of commercial dynamics in Ofcom's sectors.
• Familiarity with quantitative modelling of consumer trends and/or business finances.
• Undergraduate-equivalent knowledge of economics, public policy, or politics.

Skills

• Project management
• Strategic planning
• Policy development
• Analytical skills
• Stakeholder management
• Communication (oral and written)
• Presentation skills
• Collaboration
• Risk management
• Team management
• Thought leadership
• PowerPoint

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Fixed Term
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior Associate

Education Level

• Undergraduate-equivalent knowledge of economics, public policy or politics

Benefits

• Flexibility (part-time hours, job shares, other flexible arrangements)

About the Company

• Ofcom is the UK’s communications regulator, delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected.
• Our work covers phones, broadband, TV, radio, postal service, and wireless devices, and we are working to make the online world a safer place.
• We need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.
• The Strategy and Policy team plays a pivotal role in setting Ofcom’s strategic direction and ensuring a clear pathway to deliver key priorities.
• The team provides strategic insight and analysis to anticipate future challenges and opportunities in a rapidly evolving space.
• Our culture is underpinned by four corporate values: excellence, agility, collaboration, and empowerment.
• Ofcom is committed to promoting diversity and equality within the organisation and the sectors it regulates.
• Diversity and equality are fundamental to achieving our purpose to make communications work for everyone.

Equal Opportunity

• We welcome colleagues of all ethnicities and races, sexes, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, faiths and beliefs, and those with apparent and non‑apparent disabilities.
• We value socio‑economic diversity, life experience and neurodiversity.
• As a proud Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a role.