UK CAA – Coverage Specialist (RPAS) – sUAS Information

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

Contract Sort: Everlasting – Full time

Location: Gatwick – Hybrid

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

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

The Function

You can be accountable for main and contributing to a variety of key tasks while managing your day-to-day duties throughout the Future Security and Innovation (FS&I) Coverage workforce. This additionally contains offering recommendation and experience to colleagues within the wider RPAS workforce, different areas of the CAA and externally, each nationally and internationally.

You’ll have to consistently 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 affect they could have.

A key a part of this position is the flexibility to speak, in each written and verbal codecs. Because of the regulatory element of the subject material, and the number of companions each nationwide and worldwide, it is vital that you’re assured in your capability to simply interpret, categorical and clarify complicated ideas and data. Moreover, the capability to have interaction with, and develop, different folks’s understanding of those ideas will serve you and the workforce properly within the improvement of complete coverage.

The FS&I workforce is at all times on the lookout for new methods to enhance and construct worth for the CAA’s companions. You also needs to inhabit this strategy and consistently search new methods and strategies to extend the effectivity of not solely our processes however our coverage and steering supplies as properly. That is by no means extra essential than in a sector the place technological innovation could be speedy.

About You

Minimal important necessities for the position:

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

What Can We Provide You?

The RPAS trade is a wholesome, quick paced and extremely revolutionary phase. In case you are the type of person who enjoys a broad spectrum of novel and thrilling challenges, then it is a phenomenal workforce to hitch. As an SME you’ll be on the coronary heart of coverage determination making and, in the event you really feel you may have the information base to contribute, then this position gives you a incredible 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 data. For these roles the publish holders should endure Nationwide Safety Vetting and obtain the suitable degree of clearance.

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

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

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

The CAA values excessive moral requirements and private integrity amongst staff. If invited for interview you’ll 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 couple of years’ time. Our transfer is pushed by strategic, operational and environmental issues.

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

We are actually working with colleagues and guests to know what we want in our new workplace, earlier than we begin our property search. We’ll 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 task with us will probably be assured an interview.

Our Advantages

We provide a spread of fantastic advantages comparable to:

• Versatile & hybrid working preparations obtainable
• 28 days annual go away + public holidays (further 5 days go away 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 data please Click on Right here

Closing Date: Friday eleventh April 2025

Screening Calls: We’ll 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 appropriate to shut this emptiness early if we obtain enough functions for the position. Subsequently, in case you are , please submit your software as early as doable.

No recruitment businesses please.

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