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 supply visa sponsorship.

We’re the UK’s aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world chief in its subject. Our actions are various, enabling the aviation business to satisfy the very best security requirements, and we delight ourselves on our potential to adapt to the continually evolving aviation atmosphere.

The Function

You may be answerable for main and contributing to quite a few key tasks while managing your day-to-day duties inside the Future Security and Innovation (FS&I) Coverage crew. This additionally contains 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 continually develop your understanding and interpretation of RPAS regulatory frameworks and infrequently cope with a sure stage of ambiguity. Extra particularly it will contain figuring out and understanding rising points, what they imply in context and what impression 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’s important 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 nicely within the growth 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 method and continually search new methods and strategies to extend the effectivity of not solely our processes however our coverage and steering supplies as nicely. That is by no means extra necessary than in a sector the place technological innovation might be speedy.

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 elements in aviation and their utility, 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 advanced issues, suggest options and talk them in a transparent and concise option to quite a lot of stakeholders
• Sturdy 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
• Capable of 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 business is a wholesome, quick paced and extremely revolutionary section. If you’re the type of person who enjoys a broad spectrum of novel and thrilling challenges, then this can be a phenomenal crew to affix. As an SME you’ll be on the coronary heart of coverage resolution making and, if you happen to really feel you’ve got the data base to contribute, then this position provides you a implausible alternative to be instrumental to this burgeoning business’s growth and success.

Extra Data

For a lot of appointments inside 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 stage of clearance.

BPSS – To be vetted you should have the precise to work within the UK in order that significant checks might be undertaken.

If you don’t meet these necessities, we might 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 workers. 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 just a few years’ time. Our transfer is pushed by strategic, operational and environmental issues.

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

We at the moment are working with colleagues and guests to know what we’d like in our new workplace, earlier than we begin our property search. We are going to promote Aviation Home and land, vacate the positioning and transfer to new premises, however we don’t anticipate to maneuver earlier than 2028

Inclusivity

We’re proud to be an equal alternative employer and rejoice our variety making certain 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 variety of wonderful advantages corresponding to:

• Versatile & hybrid working preparations obtainable
• 28 days annual depart + public holidays (extra 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 health club at Gatwick or discounted health club membership for London
• EV charging factors
• Worker Improvement 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 precise to shut this emptiness early if we obtain adequate purposes for the position. Due to this fact, if you’re , please submit your utility as early as potential.

No recruitment businesses please.

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