8 Education Policy jobs in the United Kingdom

About the Role:

You will support our compliance with global regulatory frameworks, Ofqual's General Conditions of Recognition. You will be central to preparing for an expansion in the organisation's scope of recognition and ensuring internal policies and governance frameworks reflect current and new regulatory expectations.

You will interpret and communicate regulatory requirements, develop internal policy frameworks, and advise senior leaders on compliance risks, We ask that you are experienced in understanding the regulatory landscape for vocational and professional qualifications.

You will report to the Director Quality Assurance Professional Qualification. This is a 12 month contract role.

You Will:

• Interpret and translate external regulatory frameworks (e.g. Ofqual's General Conditions) into relevant internal processes or business quality standards.
• Provide guidance on how regulatory changes affect the organisation's qualification delivery, assessment, and quality assurance practices.
• Advise Management on risks, possible effects, and strategic responses to regulatory developments.
• Lead the development of regulatory and compliance policies to ensure adhesion to Ofqual requirements and other relevant frameworks.
• Ensure internal governance documentation is clear and updated.
• Monitor and report on changes in the external regulatory and policy landscape relevant to professional qualifications.
• Produce briefings, position papers, and communications to ensure our partners are informed and prepared.
• Support the planning, coordination, and delivery of both internal and external regulatory audits, including Ofqual audits and reviews.
• Work with our teams to ensure audit readiness and maintain documentation to evidence compliance with Ofqual's General Conditions of Recognition.
• Lead or contribute to the collation, analysis, and submission of compliance data and regulatory reports (e.g. Statement of Compliance, annual self-assessment).
• Support the internal audit and QA review processes by providing subject matter expertise on regulatory requirements and assisting with follow-up actions and reporting.
• Help prepare documentation required to expand the organisation's scope of Ofqual recognition.
• Use a hybrid work schedule

You Have:

• In-depth knowledge of Ofqual's General Conditions of Recognition and other UK regulatory frameworks.
• Experience in regulatory or policy roles within a Professional Body or Awarding Organisation.
• Experience interpreting complex regulatory information and communicating it.

How We Support You:

We provide flexibility to help you achieve a good work-life balance. You'll be part of a global, diverse team who foster an environment of inclusion and belonging where you are valued for who you are and where you come from.

We offer benefit options in and out of the workplace, including healthcare, pension plan, annual leave, parental leave, an employee assistance program. We care about our employees' welfare and focus our benefits package on the benefits which support your wellbeing. We also recognise that everyone has different priorities, so in addition to our core benefits to support your health we offer flexible options for you to choose benefits that are right for you, your family and your lifestyle.

We believe in non-stop learning and are committed to investing in learning opportunities that help you reach your full potential and support your continued development

About Us:

At The Association, a Great Place to Work-Certified company, we are transforming the accounting and finance profession. We are future-focused, empowering the world's most accomplished accountants to stay relevant, meet today's demands, and prepare for tomorrow's challenges through quality education, resources, and training.

Learn more about The Association on LinkedIn and our Career Site .

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

This role is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing teamranging from data analysts and software developers through to client facing and contract negotiation roles.

Ecotricity Smart Grid (ESG) provides a route to market for distributed energy resources via our in-house developed asset flexibility platform and optimiser. These will typically be grid scale storage, renewable technologies or aggregated demand side response from domestic and business sites.

At the heart of Ecotricity Smart Grid is our flexibility platform and optimiser, Ecolibrium. This in-house developed software constantly selects between multiple revenue streams, according to their flexibility potential so as to maximise revenue. These revenues arise principally from a variety of grid services and their specific requirements, as well as the trading markets and Balancing Mechanism.

Good policy insight is essential in formulating the strategic direction of travel for Ecotricity Smart Grid, and with the voluminous amount of code changes, modifications, and consultations, this aspect of the role is vital for keeping us apprised of what is ‘coming down the road’.

As a key element of this role you will attend industry working groups and forums, assess policy changes or modifications and crucially, report on the expected impact, where material, to our platform and operations. This will feed into the planning of our technical developments and help to refine our operating strategies to ensure that ESG remains at the forefront of service delivery and deliver the best performance to our customers.

Our industry has frequent consultations on changes to technical and regulatory factors that can strategically affect us, so understanding these consultations, reporting back, and responding where necessary is also a key part of the role.

You will have, or will need to develop, a deep understanding of the energy industry in GB, and potentially further afield. Be comfortable in attending industry workshops, presenting to both internal and external stakeholders and be able to summarise complex industry documentation for a range of audiences.

Core Responsibilities

• Following industry developments that affect flexibility service provision particularly from NESO, Ofgem and DesNez. You should be able to glean strategic insights from your work.
• Respond with General Manager to consultations pertinent to this space.
• Work with the analyst team to develop insights to improve our optimisation models
• Provide ad hoc market analysis pieces as required

Essential Skills

• Strong analytical, theoretical and numeric skills
• Experience with policy and regulatory documents and the ability to draw insights/ conclusions for the broader team from same
• Ability to articulate and present analysis and draw conclusions /insights from analytics.
• Experience in the Energy Industry.
• Degree in a numerate subject, or a proven track record of quantitative and qualitative analytical abilities, ideally in a commercial setting
• MS Office skills
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau or other

What's in it for you.

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

**IT Risk, Policy & Training Analyst - Leatherhead (2-3 days per week) - 35,000 per annum base + benefits**

The IT Risk, Policy & Training Analyst is responsible for managing IT risks, monitoring audit actions, maintaining IT policies and procedures, and supporting GDPR compliance. The role ensures effective governance and compliance across IT processes, providing a framework for the identification, mitigation, and management of risks.

This position bridges technical and governance aspects, ensuring alignment with company standards and regulatory requirements, while fostering collaboration across teams to embed robust IT practices:

• Ensuring that all IT risk and IT audit actions are highlighted, monitored, and escalated where appropriate.
• Maintaining the suite of IT policies and procedures.
• Providing support to the Privacy Team in ensuring GDPR compliance.

Main accountabilities:

• Assisting in managing IT Risk Register inputs and outcomes, liaising with IT SLT & Group Assurance and external auditors as appropriate.
• Liaising with other teams to ensure SLAs in scope are met.
• Identifying policy/procedure gaps and working with SMEs to create the material.
• Managing review process for existing IT policies and procedures, updating, or archiving as required
• Building strong relationships in IT & across the business to facilitate the adoption of agreed IT policies and procedures.
• Assisting with tracking the annual DR testing programme.
• Assisting the Privacy Team in ensuring DPIAs are completed where required.

Required skills and experience:

• Some experience of working in an IT function or in an audit/governance role
• Knowledge of IT risk management and IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) would be an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of cybersecurity risks and controls would be an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of GDPR requirements would be an advantage but not essential.
• Experienced Microsoft Office user (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications

• ITIL trained would be an advantage but not essential.
• IT risk management or cybersecurity certification would be an advantage, otherwise a desire to work towards achieving formal qualification.

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
• Ability to produce high quality, detailed outputs.
• Good analytical skills
• Highly organised and able to implement and manage robust governance processes.
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills across a wide range of stakeholders.

Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept our Data Protection Policy which can be found on our website.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.

**IT Risk, Policy & Training Analyst - Leatherhead (2-3 days per week) - 35,000 per annum base + benefits**

The IT Risk, Policy & Training Analyst is responsible for managing IT risks, monitoring audit actions, maintaining IT policies and procedures, and supporting GDPR compliance. The role ensures effective governance and compliance across IT processes, providing a framework for the identification, mitigation, and management of risks.

This position bridges technical and governance aspects, ensuring alignment with company standards and regulatory requirements, while fostering collaboration across teams to embed robust IT practices:

• Ensuring that all IT risk and IT audit actions are highlighted, monitored, and escalated where appropriate.
• Maintaining the suite of IT policies and procedures.
• Providing support to the Privacy Team in ensuring GDPR compliance.

Main accountabilities:

• Assisting in managing IT Risk Register inputs and outcomes, liaising with IT SLT & Group Assurance and external auditors as appropriate.
• Liaising with other teams to ensure SLAs in scope are met.
• Identifying policy/procedure gaps and working with SMEs to create the material.
• Managing review process for existing IT policies and procedures, updating, or archiving as required
• Building strong relationships in IT & across the business to facilitate the adoption of agreed IT policies and procedures.
• Assisting with tracking the annual DR testing programme.
• Assisting the Privacy Team in ensuring DPIAs are completed where required.

Required skills and experience:

• Some experience of working in an IT function or in an audit/governance role
• Knowledge of IT risk management and IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) would be an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of cybersecurity risks and controls would be an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of GDPR requirements would be an advantage but not essential.
• Experienced Microsoft Office user (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications

• ITIL trained would be an advantage but not essential.
• IT risk management or cybersecurity certification would be an advantage, otherwise a desire to work towards achieving formal qualification.

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
• Ability to produce high quality, detailed outputs.
• Good analytical skills
• Highly organised and able to implement and manage robust governance processes.
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills across a wide range of stakeholders.

Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept our Data Protection Policy which can be found on our website.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.

**IT Risk & Policy Analyst – Leatherhead (2-3 days per week) - £35,000 per annum base + benefits**

The IT Risk, Policy & Training Analyst is responsible for managing IT risks, monitoring audit actions, maintaining IT policies and procedures, and supporting GDPR compliance. The role ensures effective governance and compliance across IT processes, providing a framework for the identification, mitigation, and management of risks.

This position bridges technical and governance aspects, ensuring alignment with company standards and regulatory requirements, while fostering collaboration across teams to embed robust IT practices:

• Ensuring that all IT risk and IT audit actions are highlighted, monitored, and escalated where appropriate.
• Maintaining the suite of IT policies and procedures.
• Providing support to the Privacy Team in ensuring GDPR compliance.

Main accountabilities:

• Assisting in managing IT Risk Register inputs and outcomes, liaising with IT SLT & Group Assurance and external auditors as appropriate.
• Liaising with other teams to ensure SLAs in scope are met.
• Identifying policy/procedure gaps and working with SMEs to create the material.
• Managing review process for existing IT policies and procedures, updating, or archiving as required
• Building strong relationships in IT & across the business to facilitate the adoption of agreed IT policies and procedures.
• Assisting with tracking the annual DR testing programme.
• Assisting the Privacy Team in ensuring DPIAs are completed where required.

Required skills and experience:

• Some experience of working in an IT function or in an audit/governance role
• Knowledge of IT risk management and IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) would be an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of cybersecurity risks and controls would be an advantage but not essential.
• Understanding of GDPR requirements would be an advantage but not essential.
• Experienced Microsoft Office user (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Qualifications

• ITIL trained would be an advantage but not essential.
• IT risk management or cybersecurity certification would be an advantage, otherwise a desire to work towards achieving formal qualification.

Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with high attention to detail
• Ability to produce high quality, detailed outputs.
• Good analytical skills
• Highly organised and able to implement and manage robust governance processes.
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills across a wide range of stakeholders.

Join a leading global investment manager and play a key role in ensuring portfolios are run in line with regulatory, client, and internal standards. You’ll collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, and risk teams, combining analytical skills with market knowledge to monitor investment guidelines, support best execution, and drive process improvements.

What you’ll do:

• Monitor investment guidelines and ESG requirements
• Analyse and enhance best execution reporting
• Advise on fund onboarding and compliance controls
• Prepare management reports and risk indicators
• Work with trading and investment teams to ensure adherence to standards

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in investment management or a related field
• Strong understanding of markets, regulations, and investment products
• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills
• Proficiency with Excel and other analytical tools
• Knowledge of portfolio theory and/or compliance systems is a plus

Why apply?

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of the investment process, gain exposure to multiple asset classes, and contribute to decision-making at a senior level in a collaborative, high-performing team.

Join a leading global investment manager and play a key role in ensuring portfolios are run in line with regulatory, client, and internal standards. You’ll collaborate with portfolio managers, traders, and risk teams, combining analytical skills with market knowledge to monitor investment guidelines, support best execution, and drive process improvements.

What you’ll do:

• Monitor investment guidelines and ESG requirements
• Analyse and enhance best execution reporting
• Advise on fund onboarding and compliance controls
• Prepare management reports and risk indicators
• Work with trading and investment teams to ensure adherence to standards

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in investment management or a related field
• Strong understanding of markets, regulations, and investment products
• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills
• Proficiency with Excel and other analytical tools
• Knowledge of portfolio theory and/or compliance systems is a plus

Why apply?

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of the investment process, gain exposure to multiple asset classes, and contribute to decision-making at a senior level in a collaborative, high-performing team.