Ofcom

Attorney

• Provide expert legal advice across the full spectrum of Ofcom’s work
• Work as part of legal teams on major projects or with senior lawyers as a peer reviewer
• Report ultimately to Legal Directors and the General Counsel
• Take ownership of a portfolio of legal work across diverse projects and sectors
• Assess and resolve legal risk in the context of Ofcom’s overall strategy
• Provide risk-based analysis and strategic advice on new and significant points of law and policy work
• Produce clear and well-structured written documents
• Draft regulatory conditions, rules, codes, guidance, and statutory instruments
• Help conduct litigation
• Collaborate with colleagues across Ofcom and with experts from multiple disciplines
• Liaise with central government, other regulators, and regulated industries
• Support more junior lawyers, including through peer review
• Contribute to organisational improvements and implement solutions
• Work on projects across their lifecycle, including policy development, consultations, decision-making, litigation, and enforcement

Senior Associate, Legal

Associate

• Lead complex policy work on scope issues, including geographic scope, marketplaces and gaming
• Act as a subject matter expert on the Online Safety Fees regime for internal and external queries
• Lead fees policy reviews, including evidence review, consultation development and policy recommendations
• Lead or support scope assessment, implementation project management and project governance
• Identify risks, dependencies and delivery issues, and provide updates to governance groups
• Lead engagement with providers and cross-functional teams, including senior-level policy discussions
• Lead communications to providers on fees-related policy and implementation issues
• Supervise, coach and mentor junior colleagues, including supporting Associate-led work
• Contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team culture

Senior Associate, Online Safety Fees

• Lead key areas of online safety policy development as a subject matter expert in child sexual abuse and exploitation
• Support policy development, compliance activity, and effective work with partners and stakeholders
• Develop robust policy using knowledge of the CSEA threat and wider technical landscape
• Support Supervision and Enforcement teams in driving compliance with CSEA measures in Codes of Practice, particularly online grooming
• Identify, research, and analyse trends and developments in online child sexual abuse
• Work across Ofcom on implementation of the government’s under-16s social media ban and its impact on the CSEA threat
• Monitor technological developments affecting the fight against online child sexual abuse material
• Build relationships with Ofcom teams, including supervision, legal, technology, and economics colleagues
• Build relationships with charitable-sector stakeholders and relevant Government Departments
• Prioritise workload against strategic priorities
• Produce clear, concise documents for internal consideration and external publication
• Potentially manage Associates in the CSA team

Senior Associate, Online Safety Policy Development

• Support development of Ofcom’s approach to regulating online safety, including protection from harmful and illegal content
• Resolve complex policy problems by gathering information, conducting analysis, and identifying policy improvement options
• Ensure policy work is based on a comprehensive programme of research
• Draft clear and ambitious guidance chapters and distil technical information into coherent policy narratives
• Oversee and project-manage the workload of junior and cross-functional colleagues
• Identify policy solutions and test them with internal and external stakeholders
• Engage senior colleagues, including Ofcom directors and the CEO, to explain policy work and support external engagement
• Build and maintain effective relationships across Ofcom
• Develop online expertise across Ofcom’s online work programme
• Monitor online trends, technological developments, and the public policy landscape relating to online regulation
• Work across policy development, implementation, compliance initiatives, and other cross-cutting online safety projects as priorities evolve
• Contribute to priority areas including Women and Girls’ Online Safety, age assurance, artificial intelligence, and the proposed social media ban

• Manage, deliver and develop technology policy workstreams day to day
• Work closely with senior overseeing colleagues
• Develop and draft policy products relating to critical technology policy issues, including policy consultation materials
• Support efforts to promote regulatory compliance among regulated services
• Lead drafting of outputs such as code of practice measures and external discussion papers
• Lead cross-functional teams and task manage others as appropriate
• Present arguments for and against policy positions, including recommendations, to internal governance bodies
• Communicate evidence and policy positions to internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders, through presentations, briefings, research reports and other means
• Build productive relationships with experts and thought leaders in academia, industry, civil society, government and regulation
• Contribute to the culture of the Technology Policy team and wider Online Safety Group
• Develop policy products and coherent policy positions that uphold online services’ safety duties while accounting for technical limitations and proportionality
• Build consensus with internal and external stakeholders while refining regulatory outputs

Senior Associate, Technology Policy

• Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant online services
• Develop expertise in supervised services and Ofcom’s online safety programme, including online safety, markets, and technology developments
• Understand, assess, and drive improvements in user protections and obligations under the Online Safety Act
• Drive research, information gathering, and analysis about supervised services
• Produce clear, concise documents such as briefings and research reports for internal use or external publication
• Oversee and manage junior and cross-functional colleagues as needed
• Build and maintain relationships with teams across Ofcom
• Deliver or contribute to Supervision Team initiatives, including international or cross-regulatory engagement and market expertise development
• Communicate and share information across the Online Safety Group
• Provide updates on supervised services
• Drive programme management of compliance delivery for a strategic priority, including developing OKRs, prioritising issues, and supporting supervision teams to meet deadlines

Senior Associate, Online Safety Supervision

• Establish a professional support function for the legal team
• Lead the legal team training programme, including identifying training needs, coordinating delivery, managing the budget and liaising with learning and development and external providers
• Manage the programme for lawyers providing training to the wider organisation
• Establish systems and processes for collecting and sharing legal know-how
• Support colleagues' professional development and awareness of relevant legal developments
• Identify and oversee efficiency and expertise improvements, including templates, checklists, guidance and other resources
• Communicate with counterparts in the legal teams of other UK regulators
• Build on initiatives exploring legal technology and AI for research, training and knowledge management
• Manage relationships with legal research platform providers and raise awareness of platform tools

Senior Associate, Legal

Senior Associate, Online Safety Fees

Senior Associate, Online Safety Policy Development

Senior Associate, Online Safety Policy Development

Senior Associate, Technology Policy

Senior Associate, Online Safety Supervision

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