Job Description
Regulatory Manager
Contract Type
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full time - flexible working may be considered
Working Hours
35 hours
Salary
£44,933 per annum
Location Options
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Function Type
Regulation
The role
The Thematic Risk Team at the SRA is responsible for undertaking a wide range of thematic projects to consider and address key risks within the legal sector. The aim of the projects is to allow the SRA to better understand those risks and to establish a set of recommendations to address them. This normally results in the production of external reports with the purpose of demonstrating the projects' findings and to minimise poor behaviours and sector risks. Some of these projects can be high profile and impactful in nature. The Team is also expected to engage with its regulated population constructively and proactively.
The team is now expanding, and we are looking for two new Regulatory Managers.
As a Regulatory Manager, you will work as part of a small but dynamic team proactively identifying sector risks suitable for thematic review. Once a review/project is established you will have proactive engagement with law firms, including partners and senior leaders in those firms. You will carry out visits to firms to understand their approach to the identified risk, collate and analyse information to produce your findings which is shared with the public, the profession and internally within the SRA. Typically, you will be managing 2 projects at a time and each project takes around 6 months.
You will bring to the role both an ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member working with like-minded colleagues to share ideas, reviewing thematic risks and plan review projects. This is a senior role at the SRA without line management responsibility. You will have the credibility to represent the SRA and engage with senior stakeholders internally and externally.
We welcome applicants from various backgrounds including law, regulation and consultancy. A legal background would be useful but not necessary.
This role requires travel across England and Wales to carry out on-site occasionally.
What's in it for you?
What we are looking for
Useful and additional information
There is a Role Profile attached at the bottom of the advert on our website.
This role will be based in our Birmingham office 1-2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week.
If you have any questions that are not answered in the advert, additional documents or our website, you can contact us via: .
To apply
Please click 'apply' to complete the online application form and upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and the attached role profile.
To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages .
Closing date for applications is 26 September at 09:00.
The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.
Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Attached Role Profile
Thematic Risk Regulatory Manager Role Profile (September 2022).docx - 533KB
Converted File Thematic Risk Regulatory Manager Role Profile (September 2022).docx.pdf - 67KB
Vacancy closing date: 26/09/2022, 13:00
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.
We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
Contract Type
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full time - flexible working may be considered
Working Hours
35 hours
Salary
£44,933 per annum
Location Options
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Function Type
Regulation
The role
The Thematic Risk Team at the SRA is responsible for undertaking a wide range of thematic projects to consider and address key risks within the legal sector. The aim of the projects is to allow the SRA to better understand those risks and to establish a set of recommendations to address them. This normally results in the production of external reports with the purpose of demonstrating the projects' findings and to minimise poor behaviours and sector risks. Some of these projects can be high profile and impactful in nature. The Team is also expected to engage with its regulated population constructively and proactively.
The team is now expanding, and we are looking for two new Regulatory Managers.
As a Regulatory Manager, you will work as part of a small but dynamic team proactively identifying sector risks suitable for thematic review. Once a review/project is established you will have proactive engagement with law firms, including partners and senior leaders in those firms. You will carry out visits to firms to understand their approach to the identified risk, collate and analyse information to produce your findings which is shared with the public, the profession and internally within the SRA. Typically, you will be managing 2 projects at a time and each project takes around 6 months.
You will bring to the role both an ability to work independently and as a collaborative team member working with like-minded colleagues to share ideas, reviewing thematic risks and plan review projects. This is a senior role at the SRA without line management responsibility. You will have the credibility to represent the SRA and engage with senior stakeholders internally and externally.
We welcome applicants from various backgrounds including law, regulation and consultancy. A legal background would be useful but not necessary.
This role requires travel across England and Wales to carry out on-site occasionally.
What's in it for you?
- A role where you will drive change within the legal services sector
- Develop wide reaching relationships at a senior level both internally and externally
- Be responsible for demonstrating a proactive approach to regulation and engagement within the legal sector
- Showcase your ability to manage a range of projects from concept to completion
What we are looking for
- Relevant regulatory/legal or professional experience
- Experience of effectively project managing a project with different demands and stakeholders.
- Significant experience of influencing and constructively challenging internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
- Able to demonstrate personal accountability by taking responsibility and being results-driven.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain complex issues succinctly and with and to write and draft reports
- Proven experience of operating both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a functional or cross functional team.
Useful and additional information
There is a Role Profile attached at the bottom of the advert on our website.
This role will be based in our Birmingham office 1-2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week.
If you have any questions that are not answered in the advert, additional documents or our website, you can contact us via: .
To apply
Please click 'apply' to complete the online application form and upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and the attached role profile.
To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages .
Closing date for applications is 26 September at 09:00.
The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.
Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Attached Role Profile
Thematic Risk Regulatory Manager Role Profile (September 2022).docx - 533KB
Converted File Thematic Risk Regulatory Manager Role Profile (September 2022).docx.pdf - 67KB
Vacancy closing date: 26/09/2022, 13:00
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.
We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
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