Ofcom
Senior Associate, Online Safety Fees
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Application Deadline
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 the Team
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 technical expertise to meet the regime's aims.
This role sits within the Fees team in OS Supervision. OS Supervision provides close, structured engagement with specific services in scope of the online safety regime, alongside an approach to promoting compliance across many thousands of services. The Fees team is looking for a Senior Associate to play a central role in delivering and developing the Online Safety Fees regime. This is an opportunity to work on high-profile, novel policy issues at the intersection of online safety, regulatory scope, provider engagement and policy implementation.
Purpose and Scope of the Role
Our Fees Senior Associates lead complex policy work, including scope assessments, policy review, and engagement with internal and external stakeholders. This is a high-impact opportunity to work on one of Ofcom’s newer regulatory regimes. The successful candidate will gain experience of complex policy development, provider engagement, governance, litigation-adjacent policy work, consultation development and cross-functional delivery. The role also offers the opportunity to build leadership experience by supporting and mentoring junior colleagues.
The role is offered as a 12-month fixed-term opportunity to support a period of significant policy development, delivery and review activity as the Fees regime moves through its first full year of implementation.
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Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead complex policy work on scope issues, including geographic scope, marketplaces and gaming.
- Act as a subject matter expert on the Fees regime for internal and external queries.
- Lead the fees policy reviews, including evidence review, consultation development and policy recommendations.
- Lead or support key stages of scope assessment work, project management of implementation and project governance.
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies and delivery issues, and provide clear updates to relevant governance groups.
- Lead engagement with providers and cross-functional teams, and coordinate cross-functional policy discussions, including at a senior level where required.
- Lead communications to providers on Fees-related policy and implementation issues.
- Help supervise, coach and mentor junior colleagues, including supporting Associate-led work.
- Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
The Skills, Knowledge, and Experience You’ll Need for Success
- Brings experience from a regulatory, policy, compliance or similarly evidence-based environment, and can confidently navigate complex issues, balancing policy intent, legal considerations, and operational delivery.
- Written drafting and presentational skills, focusing on producing clear, concise and understandable documents for internal use or external publication.
- Executing Plans: Strong project management skills, with the ability to plan, prioritise and deliver work effectively to agreed deadline.
- Forming Relationships: Build and nurture positive relationships with people inside and outside the organisation.
- Building Solutions: Identify and solve complex issues, using evidence-based methods to gather insights and develop well-founded solutions.
- Articulating Ideas: Express your ideas, thoughts, and information clearly and concisely, ensuring everyone understands messages.
- Empowering Development: Support others in growing their skills and strengths. Empower them with guidance and let their potential shine.
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Inclusive Hiring at Ofcom
At Ofcom, our mission is clear: to make communications work for everyone. To achieve that, our people must reflect the diversity of the UK, in background, identity and experience.
We believe innovation thrives when difference is valued and everyone feels empowered to contribute their ideas and perspectives. That’s why 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 too. Whether you’re a carer, a parent, a veteran, or re-entering work after time away, your voice and perspective matter here.
Flexibility is at the heart of how we work because we want you to thrive in a way that suits you best. Most roles can therefore be adapted for part-time hours, job shares, or other flexible arrangements. Learn more about our Rewards, Benefits and Wellbeing on our careers page.
Our recruitment process is intentionally designed to be open and accessible. If you need adjustments, information in a different format or an alternative way to apply, contact us at resourcing@ofcom.org.uk or 0330 912 1378.
As a proud Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a role. You can read more about this commitment here.
Whoever you are, whatever your story, you belong at Ofcom.
Additional Information
Candidates who wish to receive a copy of the Job Description in Welsh are invited to contact resourcing@ofcom.org.uk.
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