Regulatory Policy Manager, LEGAL SERVICES BOARD

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Overview

It is an exciting time to join the Legal Services Board as we work in collaboration with the legal services sector to deliver our ambitious 10-year strategy. The strategy’s golden thread is the need to reshape legal services to better meet society’s needs. We have identified some big challenges facing the sector that we are working to tackle to ensure fairer outcomes, stronger confidence and better services for the public.

Regulatory Policy Manager

Closing date: 25 July 2025.

Interview date: 12 August 2025.

Overview

It is an exciting time to join the Legal Services Board as we work in collaboration with the legal services sector to deliver our ambitious 10-year strategy. The strategy’s golden thread is the need to reshape legal services to better meet society’s needs. We have identified some big challenges facing the sector that we are working to tackle to ensure fairer outcomes, stronger confidence and better services for the public.

We are recruiting a Regulatory Policy Manager for a fixed term period of 8 months to cover maternity leave to lead policy and strategy projects within our portfolio. Our portfolio of regulatory policy work focuses on themes including professional ethics, access to justice, equalities and diversity, consumer protection, technology and innovation and disciplinary and enforcement.

The LSB prides itself on its flexible working policies and we welcome applicants who would like to work full-time or part-time or as part of a job share.

Why does our work matter?

Legal services are of central importance for consumers, our economy and wider society:

• Between 2019 and 2023 66% of adults based in England and Wales had at least one legal issue
• Those experiencing a contentious legal issue experienced stress (53%), lost money (29%) or suffered ill health or injury (16%)
• 3 out of 10 small businesses face a legal problem every year and 16% rate the seriousness of their problem at least 8 out of 10
• The sector contributed £34.2bn to the economy and employed 311k people in 2022
  
  
  

• Leading our long-term policy and strategy projects on issues like ensuring the legal sector complies with their ethical obligations, encouraging access to justice for those who need it, ensuring consumers can make informed risk based choices and responding to the opportunities technology and innovation present for both consumers and regulatory approaches.
• Acting as relationship managers for the regulators, including assessing their performance against our regulatory performance framework.
  
  
  

• Work closely and collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders
• Develop robust and well-evidenced policy options
• Manage projects effectively
• Have excellent drafting skills and produce high quality reports and documents
• Influence others through written and oral communications
• Provide support, specialist knowledge and constructive challenge as part of a team
• Lead teams – as a line manager and/or a project leader
  
  
  

• The ability to create and deliver robust and evidenced policy proposals
• The ability to think critically and strategically with an eye on the wider context that shapes our work
• The ability to work confidently with ambiguity and complexity and make finely balanced decisions, driving intellectually complex issues to a firm practical conclusion
• Highly developed interpersonal skills to build and maintain complex, sensitive and influential relationships across a wide group of regulators and stakeholders
• A strong and demonstrable commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion as a colleague and a regulator
• Excellent collaboration skills both within the organisation and across organisational boundaries
• Strong organisational, delivery and project management skills
  
  
  

Seniority level

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  Mid-Senior level

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  Part-time

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  Legal

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