Would you relish an opportunity to work in an area of high interest with Ministers, the media, and stakeholders?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity at the cutting edge of policy that has a real impact on the general public, and we would love to hear from you.

You will be joining a friendly Division and will collaborate with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) on policy initiatives as well as monitoring their performance. DVLA carry out a huge range of fascinating and high-profile work, much of which is operational, covering road safety, driving licenses, vehicle registration, and much more.

This role has two main purposes, to head driver licensing and lead on the Departments sponsorship of the DVLA.

On driver licensing, the Government is working at pace to tackle the perception and approaches to road safety, ensuring that all road users are safe and that drivers are qualified to operate various categories of vehicles. You will lead on ensuring that driving licensing legislation and vehicle entitlement categories are fit for purpose, and explore opportunities for driving licensing reform, whilst ensuring the continued safe use of our roads.

On DVLA sponsorship, the purpose is to support, challenge and champion the work of the Agency across the Department for Transport (DfT) and wider government. Sponsorship involves monitoring and challenging the agencies' performance on delivery of their business plans, working with policy colleagues to understand requirements of the agencies and facilitating good working relationships.

In this role, you will collaborate with and develop strong working relationships with Government Agencies, other government departments and key road safety partners. You will proactively drive forward options for delivery by building robust analytical evidence base and providing clear options to ministers.

Your key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Leading with DVLA on the forward policy for the development of digital driving licences.
• Leading on testing ministerial appetite and developing options under the EU 4th Driving Licensing Directive.
• Leading on the process of European Licence Exchange and advise DVLA on International Licence Exchange.
• Setting the strategic focus on driving licence policy for internal and external stakeholders.
• Playing an essential role in agency governance, establishing and maintaining framework documents, coordinating agency business planning, and involvement in the wider sponsor network across DfT.
• Team leadership for a team of two.

About you

You will be an engaging and experienced leader with recent experience of team leadership/people management.

You will be an excellent communicator, with the ability to simplify and articulate technical language to influence and communicate across organisational boundaries at all grades. You will have experience of providing written and verbal briefings to senior leaders.

You will have excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills to develop and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and the capability to influence, change and impact decisions through those relationships.

You will display confidence and knowledge of legislative processes and understand complex policy design and delivery.

You will be resilient in the face of uncertainty or unforeseen events.