Policy Advisor

Please note that the advert will close at 00:01 on Sunday 8 June and therefore we advise getting your application in no later than midnight on Saturday 7 June.


About the team youll be part of

The broadcasting sector is changing rapidly. Technological advances and new services have led to a greater range of choice for audiences. They can now decide what to watch read listen to or interact with in more ways than ever before.

The role of Ofcoms Content Policy team is to ensure that the UKs broadcast and media industries continue to serve the interests of everyone in the UK. This includes assessing whether the UKs public service broadcasters (the BBC ITV STV Channel 4 Channel 5 and S4C) provide a wide range of programmes and that the programmes they provide are of a high quality; ensuring viewers benefit from competitive and creative services; and supporting the UKs creative industries.

In the last year we reviewed the UKs local media sector which is essential to social cohesion and local democracy we have refreshed the requirements for what the BBC must do for audiences and we have started to implement the Media Act which is the first fundamental update to the UKs legal framework for the media sector in over 20 years.

The purpose and scope of the role

Associates in our team contribute to a wide range of content policy projects; from reports on the performance of public service media through influencing improvements in the diversity of the broadcasting industry to one off projects looking at the impact on competition of a new BBC service.

Your Key Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities include working with Senior Associates to deliver our work through effective project management conducting analysis and problem solving with Senior Associates and Principals to develop our policies and supporting the teams engagement with industry stakeholders.

Associates typically work across two to three policy projects at any one time working flexibly across projects and contributing to corporate activities such as colleague networks.

• Policy development: Helping to identify policy questions contributing to scoping the analysis needed to answer them and working with colleagues to develop solutions.

• Project management: Supporting colleagues with drawing up project plans organising meetings liaising with different teams in Ofcom.

• Drafting: Contributing to the production of written documents and materials for both internal and external audiences.

• Stakeholder management: Supporting the management of relationships with businesses public bodies and other stakeholders.

The skills knowledge and experience youll need for success

Our colleagues come from a variety of different academic and career backgrounds and have developed their skills in many different roles and sectors. The core skills for the role are:

Essential

• Evaluating Problems: an ability to think innovatively about problems and to contribute to a structured approach of developing effective solutions

• Generating Insights: able to collate information and support the analysis of it to draw evidence based conclusions

• Articulating Ideas: an ability to communicate with people internally and externally both verbally and in writing

• Forming Relationships: building and maintaining working relationships with a broad range of people across the organisation

• Executing Plans: some experience of supporting planning and delivery of projects to time budget and with effective/impactful results demonstrating ability to prioritise competing demands on their time effectively

Desirable

• Sector knowledge: a broad understanding of Ofcoms role and of the broadcasting and media sector

• Data analysis skills: some experience of undertaking data analysis

• Economic knowledge: an understanding of economic concepts and analysis

Qualifications

You do not require any specific academic qualifications for this role but we will be looking for evidence of the skills and knowledge outlined above.


How to apply:

Please send us your CV and a covering letter. The covering letter should be no more than two pages and should explain what has motivated you to apply for this role and what you think you would bring to it.