Resourcing & Planning Associate, Online Safety Strategy

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Online Safety Group Management Level:Associate Job Type:Permanent

Job Description:

Please note that this role will close at 00:01 on Monday 12 October, and therefore we advise getting your application in by no later than midnight on Sunday 11 October.

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 ofThe 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 technical expertise to meet the regime’s aims.

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.

The purpose and scope of the role

The Resourcing & Planning Associate will support the Resourcing, Workforce Planning and Capability team (sitting within Strategy Delivery), helping the Online Safety Group understand the people, skills and capacity it needs to deliver effectively. This role will contribute to workforce planning, recruitment activity, capability building and operational improvement across one of Ofcom’s most high-profile areas of work.

Working closely with colleagues across Online Safety, People, Finance and Business Management, the postholder will help turn workforce information into insight, support better planning decisions and help build the capability needed for the future. This is a varied role suited to someone highly organised, collaborative and confident working with data, people and processes to help teams deliver well.

Your

Key Responsibilities Support workforce planning and resourcing activity across the Online Safety Group, helping teams understand current and future people, skills and capacity needs.

Contribute to capability-building activity, supporting initiatives that help colleagues develop the skills, knowledge and confidence needed to deliver the Online Safety regime.undefined

Maintain and interpret workforce planning, recruitment and capability information, ensuring leaders have clear, reliable insight to support decisions on capacity, priorities and delivery.

Support annual and quarterly workforce forecasting, working closely with Budget, Finance and Business Management colleagues to inform planning choices and manage delivery risks.

Build effective working relationships across the Online Safety Group, wider Ofcom and corporate teams to support joined-up planning, recruitment and delivery.

Identify opportunities to improve processes, tools and ways of working across the Strategy and Delivery team, helping to make planning and operational activity simpler, clearer and more effective.

Prepare clear briefings, presentations and updates that…