Building Safety Regulator - Director, Strategy, Risk, Regulatory Policy and Change

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Hybrid

Expires: Expiring in less than 3 weeks

Building Control

Full time

£100,000 per year

Job summary

This post will be in the Building Safety Regulator, not MHCLG. BSR is a non-executive departmental body of MHCLG, BSR staff are not civil servants, but retain access to civil service pensions and civil service jobs. It is equivalent in pay scale to a civil service Pay band 2 post, as indicated on this advert.

This Director role provides senior strategic leadership for the organisation’s corporate strategy, transformation, regulatory policy, risk, governance, and assurance functions. As a member of the
senior leadership team, you will play a central role in shaping the direction, capability, and resilience of the organisation during a period of significant development and external scrutiny.

You will lead the design, development, and delivery of the corporate strategy and Target Operating Model, ensuring alignment with statutory responsibilities and long-term organisational sustainability. This includes overseeing a coherent transformation portfolio that strengthens governance, builds core corporate functions, and embeds the systems, processes, and culture required for effective regulation.

A key aspect of the role is leadership of regulatory policy. You will ensure the organisation’s regulatory framework is evidence-based, proportionate, risk-informed, and aligned to public interest objectives. You will promote a culture of intelligent, outcomes-focused regulation, ensuring that policy decisions are grounded in robust analysis and contribute to public confidence and regulatory integrity.

You will provide strategic oversight of organisational risk, ensuring effective identification, assessment, and management of strategic, operational, and delivery risks. You will lead the development and maintenance of a clear risk appetite framework and ensure risk management is embedded within governance structures, performance management, and decision-making processes.

The role also carries responsibility for governance, internal controls, and assurance arrangements. You will ensure compliance with relevant public sector standards, including Managing Public Money
principles, and provide leadership in strengthening audit engagement, transparency, and organisational performance.

You will manage delegated budgets with accountability and integrity, ensuring sound financial stewardship, value for money, and robust internal control systems.

Working closely with senior stakeholders across government and the wider regulatory environment, you will build trusted relationships, influence strategic decisions, and ensure effective collaboration during complex and high-profile change. Your leadership will be critical in enabling innovation, maintaining public safety standards, and ensuring organisational resilience.

Job description

You will:

Lead corporate strategy development and oversee delivery of the Target Operating Model and transformation portfolio.
Shape and direct regulatory policy to ensure proportionate, evidence-based, and risk-informed regulation.
Provide senior oversight of organisational risk, including maintenance of a clear risk appetite framework.
Ensure effective governance, assurance, and internal control arrangements in line with public sector standards.
Exercise delegated financial authority with strong stewardship, transparency, and value-for-money principles.
Build and maintain influential relationships with key government and external stakeholders.
Lead, develop, and empower a high-performing and inclusive directorate.

Person specification

Strategic System Leadership - Able to operate at organisational and system level, connecting strategy, regulatory direction, risk oversight, governance, and delivery into a coherent long-term vision.
Transformation and Organisational Design Expertise - Proven ability to lead complex, enterprise-wide change, including operating model design, governance reform, capability building, and sustained implementation in large organisations.
Regulatory and Risk Judgement - Demonstrates strong understanding of risk-based regulation, risk appetite frameworks, assurance mechanisms, and accountability within a high-scrutiny public sector context.
Executive Influence and Partnership Working - Credible and confident operating with senior stakeholders across government and external partners, able to build trust, manage challenge, and influence strategic decisions.
Inclusive and High-Performance Leadership - Creates a culture of accountability, collaboration, and psychological safety; builds and develops diverse, high-performing teams capable of delivering through change.

Essential Criteria

Extensive experience operating at senior level within a complex public sector, regulatory, or similarly high-accountability environment, with responsibility for organisational or system-level outcomes.
Proven track record of leading large-scale organisational change or transformation programmes, including operating model development, governance reform, or enterprise-wide implementation.
Demonstrable experience developing and delivering long-term organisational strategy, translating vision into measurable priorities, performance frameworks, and delivery plans.
Strong understanding and practical experience of strategic and operational risk management, risk appetite frameworks, and governance/assurance systems within a regulated or public accountability environment.
Evidence of successfully influencing and collaborating with senior internal and external stakeholders, including cross-government partners, in complex, high-profile, or politically sensitive contexts.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £100,000, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government contributes £28,970 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

How to apply - To apply you will need to submit a CV and Statement of Suitability via the Be Applied link. Your CV (up to two pages) should set out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years. Your Statement of Suitability (up to two pages) should explain how your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential and desirable criteria for the role.

Equal Opportunities - We encourage candidates to complete the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Data via Be Applied. The data will be treated in the strictest confidence and used for monitoring and statistical purposes only.

Guaranteed Interview Schemes - We are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health of all colleagues and applicants. We also operate the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Redeployment schemes. Applicants applying under these schemes who meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

The panel – Ben Rimmington – MHCLG Director General, Charlie Pugsley, Acting Chief Executive Officer of BSR, Catherine Adams – MHCLG Director. Additionally, the panel may be joined by one of our staff representatives from a pool of volunteers as part of our commitments to diversity and inclusion.

Shortlist - Applications will be sifted after the closing date and shortlisted candidates will be invited to the next phase of assessment and interview. Your CV and Statement of Suitability will be assessed against the essential criteria, these will also be used to form the basis of the panel’s final interview questions. Desirable criteria will only be used to determine the merit order of candidates who rank evenly against the essential criteria.

Assessment - Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a Staff Engagement Panel – designed to provide insight into how you engage and interact with your team. Feedback from the
session is passed to the panel for consideration alongside your final interview.

Candidates may also be invited to meet with a Senior Stakeholder. This is not a formal part of selection, but an informal chance to find out more about the role and organisation.

Shortlisted candidates may also be invited to give a short presentation, or complete an exercise at interviews - further details will be provided when invited to interview.

Expected Timeline*

Advert closes: 29th March 2026
Shortlisting: W/C 30th March 2026
Assessments: W/C 13th April 2026
Interviews: W/C 20th April 2026

* Please note that we try and offer flexibility where possible, but it may not always be
possible to offer alternative interview dates

Feedback -This will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

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Salary range

£100,000 per year