Associate, Online Safety Strategy

Please note that this role will close at 00:01 on Monday 19 October, and therefore we advise getting your application in by no later than midnight on Sunday 18 October.

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.

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.

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.

OSG operates a flexible resourcing model and colleagues may work across a range of projects as organisational priorities evolve.

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 s 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.
• Supporting engagement with external stakeholders and developing stakeholder engagement strategies and materials.
• Contributing to the delivery of external publications, to ensure a consistent 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…