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Salary

£52,867 – £65,490
London £57,114 – £65,490 or Regional £52,867 – £61,296
GBP

Job grade

Grade 7
Grade C

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Planning and Performance

Type of role

Other

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

  • Location
  • About the job
  • Benefits
  • Things you need to know
  • Apply and further information

Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, York

About the job

Job summary

The Network Regulation team (NR) leads on Our role in holding Network Rail to account, comprising of individuals responsible for regulating Network Rail’s geographical business units and System Operator and co-ordinating and implementing day to day governance arrangements and enforcement activities as required. You will need to build strong professional relationships with a range of internal colleagues, across a range of specialisms, and also external colleagues, including senior leaders in Network Rail. You will also have line management responsibility for two members of the Network Regulation team.

Job description

You will be responsible for leading and managing a suite of meetings and evidence feeding into and flowing from internal periodic Regulatory Compliance Group (RCG) meetings, ensuring robust evidence is put forward to allow ORR to understand and anticipate Network Rail’s performance and delivery during Control Period 7 (CP7) and its compliance against its Network Licence.

As part of your role, you will need to build strong professional relationships with a range of internal colleagues, across a range of specialisms, and also external colleagues, including senior leaders in Network Rail. You will also have line management responsibility for two members of the Network Regulation team.

This is an exciting time to join Us. You will support the Head of Network Regulation and Deputy Director, Planning and Performance, in developing and adapting our ways of working as we respond to the Government’s programme, including major changes arising from rail reform.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Our hybrid working means that we currently work from our workplace location a minimum of 40% of our working week, although requirements to attend other offsite locations for official business, also count towards this level of attendance. Working arrangements are subject to continuous review.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Leadership
  • Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Strong oral communications skills to establish credibility and influence with senior colleagues and external stakeholders.
  • Strong drafting and written communication skills to contribute to high-quality written outputs.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships both internally and externally with colleagues across a range of specialisms and levels.

Benefits

A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
For information on the selection process, please see the attached Candidate Information Pack and Job Description.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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