UK CAA – Coverage Specialist (RPAS) – sUAS Information

Wage: £55,000 to £65,000 – (relying on expertise)

Contract Kind: Everlasting – Full time

Location: Gatwick – Hybrid

Visa Restrictions: This place doesn’t provide visa sponsorship.

We’re the UK’s aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world chief in its area. Our actions are numerous, enabling the aviation trade to satisfy the very best security requirements, and we delight ourselves on our potential to adapt to the continuously evolving aviation setting.

The Function

You’ll be accountable for main and contributing to quite a lot of key initiatives while managing your day-to-day duties throughout the Future Security and Innovation (FS&I) Coverage crew. This additionally consists of offering recommendation and experience to colleagues within the wider RPAS crew, different areas of the CAA and externally, each nationally and internationally.

You’ll have to continuously develop your understanding and interpretation of RPAS regulatory frameworks and sometimes take care of a sure degree of ambiguity. Extra particularly it will contain figuring out and understanding rising points, what they imply in context and what influence they might have.

A key a part of this position is the power to speak, in each written and verbal codecs. As a result of regulatory element of the subject material, and the number of companions each nationwide and worldwide, it is crucial that you’re assured in your potential to simply interpret, specific and clarify advanced ideas and data. Moreover, the capability to interact with, and develop, different individuals’s understanding of those ideas will serve you and the crew effectively within the improvement of complete coverage.

The FS&I crew is all the time searching for new methods to enhance and construct worth for the CAA’s companions. You also needs to inhabit this strategy and continuously search new methods and strategies to extend the effectivity of not solely our processes however our coverage and steering supplies as effectively. That is by no means extra necessary than in a sector the place technological innovation will be fast.

About You

Minimal important necessities for the position:

• Operationally skilled inside both the civil or navy RPAS area
• Information and understanding of any of the next areas: airspace, guidelines of the air, human components in aviation and their utility, the SORA methodology
• Have a confirmed grasp of aviation primarily based regulatory coverage or framework
• Have undertaking administration expertise, demonstrated by working inside, main, or planning undertaking work
• An open, collaborative and steady enchancment targeted mindset
• The power to analyse advanced issues, suggest options and talk them in a transparent and concise technique to quite a lot of stakeholders
• Robust analytical expertise with a capability to attract and develop perception from all kinds of material and data
• Glorious verbal and written communication expertise with expertise within the drafting of technical paperwork or coverage
• In a position to produce correct briefing materials, developed with a deal with brevity and readability, with a eager eye for element
• An appreciation of danger or performance-based analysis frameworks

What Can We Supply You?

The RPAS trade is a wholesome, quick paced and extremely revolutionary phase. If you’re the form of individual that enjoys a broad spectrum of novel and thrilling challenges, then this can be a phenomenal crew to affix. As an SME you can be on the coronary heart of coverage determination making and, if you happen to really feel you’ve the information base to contribute, then this position provides you a unbelievable alternative to be instrumental to this burgeoning trade’s improvement and success.

Extra Info

For a lot of appointments throughout the CAA, these roles require entry to operationally delicate infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected info. For these roles the publish holders should bear Nationwide Safety Vetting and obtain the suitable degree of clearance.

BPSS – To be vetted you could have the proper to work within the UK in order that significant checks will be undertaken.

If you don’t meet these necessities, we could not be capable to settle for your utility.

For extra info on BPSS clearance please go to – BPSS clearance

The CAA values excessive moral requirements and private integrity amongst staff. If invited for interview you can be requested to finish a declaration of curiosity.

Relocation & Property

The CAA will probably be relocating from Aviation Home (Our Gatwick Workplace) to new premises in a number of years’ time. Our transfer is pushed by strategic, operational and environmental issues.

We will probably be shifting to a brand new native house, as much as a 15-mile radius of Aviation Home, to minimise disruption for our valued colleagues and prospects.

We are actually working with colleagues and guests to grasp what we want in our new workplace, earlier than we begin our property search. We are going to promote Aviation Home and land, vacate the location and transfer to new premises, however we don’t count on to maneuver earlier than 2028

Inclusivity

We’re proud to be an equal alternative employer and rejoice our variety guaranteeing all are backgrounds included right here on the CAA. As a member of the Incapacity Assured scheme, candidates who meet the minimal standards for a job with us will probably be assured an interview.

Our Advantages

We provide a spread of fantastic advantages reminiscent of:

• Versatile & hybrid working preparations out there
• 28 days annual depart + public holidays (further 5 days depart buy scheme)
• Beneficiant pension scheme (As much as 12% employer contribution)
• Wellbeing Room at Gatwick
• Psychological Well being and Suicide First Aiders
• Worker Help Programme, speaking therapies and neurodiversity assist through Occupational Well being & entry to Headspace for colleagues and 5 dependents
• Free onsite fitness center at Gatwick or discounted fitness center membership for London
• EV charging factors
• Worker Growth programs internally and through Skillsoft

Our Values

Do The Proper Factor, By no means Cease Studying, Construct Collaborative Relationships, Respect Everybody – For extra info please Click on Right here

Closing Date: Friday eleventh April 2025

Screening Calls: We are going to look invite shortlisted people to preliminary briefing calls to debate the position and their expertise in additional element.

Interview Date: w/c Monday twenty eighth April 2025

We reserve the proper to shut this emptiness early if we obtain adequate functions for the position. Due to this fact, if you’re , please submit your utility as early as potential.

No recruitment companies please.

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