Regulatory Supervisor

Permanent
Full time
35 hours per week
£30,244 - £35,581 per annum
Birmingham
Our Supervision function was created to deliver a new model of regulation of the profession based on developing a constructive relationship with firms and targeted enforcement. The aim of SRA Supervision is to assist firms in tackling their own risks and help them to improve their standards, thus ensuring they provide the right outcomes for clients.

Our Supervision function is, for most firms, their main and continuing point of relationship with the SRA. Supervision, therefore, plays a crucial role in managing our relationship with the regulated community. The team has a pivotal role in not only giving the public confidence in law firms but also in ensuring those firms work to the highest ethical and professional standards. The work of the Supervision team is varied, challenging, interesting and highly rewarding.

The Supervision team are looking to appoint a number of Regulatory Supervisors to join the directorate in this exciting time. The Regulatory Supervisor will manage a portfolio of cases through desk-based engagement and will investigate reports about misconduct and regulatory breaches, or undertake visits where appropriate. You’ll collate and analyse information on reported conduct and regulatory issues in a timely manner to identify risks and decide what action, if any, should be taken. As well as experience in drafting complex documents, you’ll have a good understanding of the legal profession, and a proven ability of handling changing priorities and working well both autonomously, and as part of a team.

Currently we have some permanent and fixed-term contract opportunities in the team.

Please note that candidates interviewed for this role in the past 6 months need not re-apply.

Essential

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

Relevant regulatory experience from a comparable regulator ie professional services regulation or outcome-focussed and risk-based, and/or law practice experience

Experienced in leading complex investigations and critically analysing information to make recommendations demonstrating risk-based judgement

Excellent written skills with experience of drafting complex documents and letters clearly and concisely

Excellent oral communication skills with the ability to explain and discuss complex issues with stakeholders at all levels internally and externally

Highly organised and able to prioritise and progress cases effectively

Experience of influencing and constructively challenging internal and external stakeholders

Experience of working in an environment where priorities may change, and demonstrating resilience in changing circumstances

Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities and adopting a flexible, pragmatic approach to work

Experience of working well under direction and autonomously, and collaborating as part of a functional or cross functional team

Relevant academic qualification(s)

Desirable

Reasonable knowledge of the legal framework and the SRA’s principles / rules against which the key regulatory risks in the regulation of legal will be assessed

Able to demonstrate a reasonable commercial awareness and understanding of the legal profession, its operating models. An understanding of the pressures on firms, eg the economic environment and changing legal landscape

The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Vacancy closing date: 02/08/2015, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.

 We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.