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Reference number

323181

Salary

£39,819 – £47,392

London: £43,956 – £47,392 or Regional: £39,819 – £43,321

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Grade D

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

ORR – Railway Safety

Type of role

Policy

Working pattern

Full-time

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Location

Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London, Manchester, York

About the job

Job summary

Team information

Rail safety, strategy & policy team delivers a range of policy, regulatory and corporate functions as well as providing strategic direction to RSDs work through risk ranking and prioritisation, data analysis and business planning.

Job description

Job Purpose

Within the Safety Policy and Corporate Support Team, will apply your policy skills to a range of railway health and safety topics. You will develop policies and promote understanding of them within, and beyond ORR, producing high-quality written material and clearly communicating this information. You will support ORR colleagues (including Railway Inspectors in the Railway Safety Directorate) so that they are able to understand and apply your outputs in their work.

You will work with other safety regulators (including the Health and Safety Executive, HSE), government and railway industry organisations. You will develop your own network of policy connections. This job contributes to achieving excellence in safety culture and management across the industry by developing railway health and safety policy.

Person specification

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description.

Behaviours

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

Benefits

Details of our employee benefits can be found in the attached Candidate Information Pack.

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people , Office of Rail and Road (orr.gov.uk).

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

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.

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) (opens in a new window)
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

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window).

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.