About This Role
This Policy Manager role is a senior position within the Consumer Policy Unit, supporting policy development in evolving and high-profile areas. The role involves running the development, delivery, and implementation of key policies to improve the legal services market in England and Wales, ensuring they balance regulatory burdens with consumer protection.
Responsibilities
- Run the development, delivery, and implementation of key policies likely to improve the legal services market in England and Wales
- Consider how regulation can promote access to justice for different people and businesses
- Help to develop and implement policy positions, ensuring requirements strike the right balance between minimising regulatory burdens and protecting consumers from harm
- Use policy techniques, engagement, and proficient project management skills to manage policy development on complex and potentially unfamiliar issues
- Engage with stakeholders both internally and externally, including at executive level
- Ensure policy work is evidence-based and embeds consideration of equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Manage major policy projects from design to implementation
- Produce and present well-written reports, consultation papers, policy documents, and board papers
- Provide specialist advice, support, and briefings on complex policy issues within the SRA and externally
Requirements
- Good understanding of consumer policy issues
- Experience of managing high-profile policy projects, using robust project management techniques to develop and implement a range of approaches to policy problems
- Understanding of the regulatory context and how this shapes approaches to regulation in the legal sector
- Ability to build and manage influential relationships with senior-level internal and external stakeholders
- Proficient decision-maker, with ability to produce practical and clear conclusions to complex issues
- Ability to produce a range of documents to an exceptional standard, including board papers and consultations documents
- Ability to work at pace to stretching deadlines, juggling a number of demanding priorities
- Experience of policy development in a similar or related environment
- Clear understanding of the SRA's regulatory purpose and approach and of the range of available regulatory tools
Benefits
- Additional 3% of annual basic salary for you to choose the benefits that best suit your lifestyle and personal situation
- Pension: The company will contribute 1½ - 2 times your contribution, up to 12.25% (maximum combined contribution of 19.25% if you contribute 7%)
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
