Smart Data Policy Lead

at  Department for Business and Trade

JOB SUMMARY

This is a brilliant opportunity to contribute to the development and implementation of Smart Data, an innovative cross-government policy with wide reaching opportunities for businesses and consumers.
Smart Data is the secure sharing of consumer data, with their consent, to third parties to provide innovative services. Open Banking is currently considered the only live example of an arrangement comparable to a Smart Data; it enables consumers to use third party services to securely move and manage their money. Open Banking services are used by 9.7 million people in the UK and the ecosystem is worth more than £4 billion.
The Government has committed to enabling Smart Data schemes so that customers can ask for help from authorised third parties to better use the data about them. The aim is to drive innovative new money management and other services.

Beyond the possibilities enabled by Smart Data in Open Banking, other potential initiatives include, amongst many others:

• Supporting grid-level energy demands, and saving consumers money, by using energy data to recommend the most cost or energy efficient times and locations to charge their electric vehicles.
• Health benefits and cost and time savings for consumers by providing data-driven insights to help them plan more affordable and more nutritious grocery shopping.
• Wage increases for gig workers, by providing data to help workers choose the best platform and to improve gig workers’ access to finance.

The team works to coordinate activities across Whitehall and public and private sector organisations to further Smart Data in a number of priority sectors, including banking, financial services, and telecoms. This includes progressing Smart Data legislation and brokering agreement across government on the institutional arrangements to support the policy in the long term.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The team is hiring for three roles, each with a specific Smart Data focus area and a wider stakeholder engagement and influencing responsibility. We are looking for:

• Smart Data Policy Lead – Legislation
• Smart Data Policy Lead – Stakeholders
• Smart Data Policy Lead – Innovation and Evidence

All successful candidates will also be expected to be a contribute to wider directorate and team work.

Responsibilities across the three roles include:

• Line management of up to two SEOs
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders, building and maintaining the community of industry and Whitehall stakeholders that are needed to drive forward Smart Data.
• Supporting Ministers in Parliamentary engagement, including providing last-minute oral briefings, and promptly responding to queries.
• Leading on commissions to further the policy area, including submissions and briefings.
• Continuous monitoring and regular reporting of deadlines, milestones, and risks of complex work streams.

Responsibilities specific to each of the three roles:

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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 (opens in a new window)

The team is hiring for three roles, each with a specific Smart Data focus area and a wider stakeholder engagement and influencing responsibility. We are looking for:

• Smart Data Policy Lead – Legislation
• Smart Data Policy Lead – Stakeholders
• Smart Data Policy Lead – Innovation and Evidenc

Responsibilities across the three roles include:

• Line management of up to two SEOs
• Engaging and influencing stakeholders, building and maintaining the community of industry and Whitehall stakeholders that are needed to drive forward Smart Data.
• Supporting Ministers in Parliamentary engagement, including providing last-minute oral briefings, and promptly responding to queries.
• Leading on commissions to further the policy area, including submissions and briefings.
• Continuous monitoring and regular reporting of deadlines, milestones, and risks of complex work streams