Director of Supervision

Permanent
Full time - flexible working may be considered
35 hours per week
Competitive with excellent benefits
Birmingham
The SRA's role is to protect the public by ensuring that the highest standards of professional conduct are maintained. The SRA is now seeking to appoint an exceptional individual, to play a critical role.

The Director of Supervision will lead and manage the SRA's supervision of regulated organisations and individuals, maintaining the effectiveness and quality of supervision's engagement and assessment of regulated organisations. Working within a high volume casework-based environment, you will ensure that concerns relating to regulated organisations / individuals are appropriately risk assessed and progressed in a timely and effective manner.

We are seeking an individual with outstanding leadership capability, a track record of motivating high performing teams and delivering strong performance management in a complex, high volume casework and operational processing environment. You will have led and embedded significant process and cultural change within an operation of some scale and complexity. With a background in driving continuous improvement and customer service excellence, you will be an outstanding communicator and politically astute, with the proven ability to build and maintain complex stakeholder relationships.

This is an outstanding opportunity to join SRA at an exciting time. You will have the autonomy and influence to shape this position, bring your personal vision and lead and embed far reaching change in the way we work. We offer a highly competitive package, together with the opportunity to work with a dynamic leadership team in a high quality office environment.

For further details and to apply, please visit www.gatenbysanderson.com. For a confidential discussion, please contact our advising consultants Katrina Paget or Carolyn Coates on 0207 426 3994.
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.
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Vacancy closing date: 20/05/2015, 17:00

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.