Dvla Careers – Policy Advisor In London

Overview

Position Title: Policy Advisor

Company: Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

Location: London, UK

Job Description:

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who enjoys a varied workload to join the Driver Licensing Policy team. You will work closely in a small, dynamic team where we will look to you to interpret the legislative requirements for driver licensing and be able to provide policy advice to colleagues and stakeholders.
You will be expected to assist managers in reviewing existing policies and help develop new policies to support change within the Agency and wider Government. The role will include working closely with stakeholders at all levels to help develop evidence-based policies. A key element of the role will be to help ensure that DVLA is compliant with the law.

Responsibilities:

• Providing initial draft responses to correspondence from customers, stakeholders and Ministerial and other official correspondence using agreed standard lines and precedents for task manager’s approval on policy area of responsibility within required deadlines.
• Providing advice, guidance and briefing to operational and project colleagues and to support and assist task manager, providing first drafts of submissions, consultations and impact assessments.
• Supporting pre-consultation data-gathering and research from a range of sources (stakeholders, customers, lawyers and operational colleagues) to help support the development and delivery of new, evidenced based policy initiatives as sanctioned by the Cabinet Office and Agency approvals processes or changes to existing policies.
• Developing and maintaining appropriate knowledge within specialism, reviewing legislations and liaising with lawyers as necessary to help inform changes to existing policies or the introduction of new initiatives that align with Government Departmental or Agency strategy (with the focus on enabling digital services).