JOB DESCRIPTION

Digital identities will make it possible for people to prove things about themselves in a secure and trusted way without showing paper documents. Done right, they will be a vital building block for the economy of the future and unlock hundreds of millions of pounds of economic growth in the UK economy.
The Office for Digital Identities and Attributes in DSIT is enabling the widespread use of digital identities across the UK economy.
You will join a friendly, diverse and multi-functional team of over 30 people, working together to create a framework of standards, governance and legislation so that people and businesses know what a good digital identity looks like.
This role will suit a confident and strategic policy professional who thrives on complex and ambiguous policy challenges, is able to build strong relationships, and can be assertive in cross government engagement.

SELECTION PROCESS DETAILS

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please use your personal statement (in no more than 750 words) to evidence your suitability for this role with reference to the essential requirements.
Applications will be sifted on CV and Personal Statement.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour and strength-based questions.
To help you to prepare for your interview, for this campaign behaviour questions will be shared in advance of interview if you are successful at sift stage. These questions should be treated as confidential and should not be shared.
The interview panel may ask you other questions which will not be shared with you in advance, including any follow-up questions, and other elements listed in the job advert, for example, experience, abilities, strengths and technical skills. The panel will be looking for examples of your own work, experience, and ability so do try and avoid using AI written answers without any human oversight.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

ROLE 1 - STRATEGY AND POLICY TEAM

• Develop and deliver external communications to industry stakeholders and the general public on OfDIA’s digital identity programme to build trust and confidence in digital identities.
• Work with cross-department and cross-government colleagues to design communications strategy and alignment.
• Manage OfDIA’s ‘Enabling Digital Identity’ blog and GOV.UK publishing strategy.
• Support on strategic briefings and parliamentary business.
• Work with Grade 7 lead to develop and prepare the OfDIA Annual Report for publication.
• Design and manage various OfDIA research projects such as the digital identity market analysis and inclusion monitoring report for certified digital identity services.
• Lead on policy development in relevant areas as required.

ROLE 2 - STANDARDS AND ADOPTION TEAM

• Support the development of the digital identity sector, both as a high potential technology sector, and a growth enabler across the wider economy.
• Collaborate and influence across government and regulators to help remove barriers to the acceptance of digital identity services while maintaining necessary guardrails. This could involve supporting legislative, regulatory or guidance changes.
• Maintaining the broad expertise and network to support progress across diverse sectors such as age restricted products (e.g. alcohol, gambling and tobacco sales), money laundering, property, travel or voter ID.
• Manage cross-government groups to support consistency and information sharing on similar challenges.
• Lead on devolution issues for the adoption of digital identities, where different parts of the UK have different requirements.
• Supporting industry engagement and relationships with the digital identity sector to understand priorities and challenges.
• Lead on policy development in relevant areas as required.

ROLE 3 - SECURITY AND CHILDREN’S IDENTITY

• Engage across Whitehall to identify relevant data sets that might support a digital identity for children, and examine the viability of digitalisation of these data sets within required timeframes.
• Map and understand relevant use cases for children’s digital identities as children move from 13-18 and as the use cases evolve according to the child’s age.
• Examine the possibility of alternative ways of proving children’s identity through e.g. vouching – including examination of whether such approaches provide the required level of robustness and security against the proposed use cases for the digital ID.
• It is possible that this work will need to be delivered quickly, so you may be required to work in a fast-paced environment with equities spanning a range of requirements across departments, including provisions for child identities online to ensure the effective implementation of age assurance requirements for children under the Online Safety Act.