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 fulfill the best security requirements, and we satisfaction ourselves on our means to adapt to the continuously evolving aviation surroundings.

The Position

You can be liable for main and contributing to quite a lot of key initiatives while managing your day-to-day duties inside the Future Security and Innovation (FS&I) Coverage group. This additionally consists of offering recommendation and experience to colleagues within the wider RPAS group, 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 cope with a sure degree of ambiguity. Extra particularly this may 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. As a result of regulatory element of the subject material, and the number of companions each nationwide and worldwide, it’s important that you’re assured in your means to simply interpret, categorical and clarify complicated ideas and knowledge. Moreover, the capability to have interaction with, and develop, different individuals’s understanding of those ideas will serve you and the group nicely within the growth of complete coverage.

The FS&I group is all the time in search of new methods to enhance and construct worth for the CAA’s companions. You must also inhabit this method and continuously search new methods and strategies to extend the effectivity of not solely our processes however our coverage and steerage supplies as nicely. That is by no means extra necessary than in a sector the place technological innovation may 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 components 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 complicated issues, suggest options and talk them in a transparent and concise option to quite a lot of stakeholders
• Sturdy analytical expertise with a capability to attract and develop perception from all kinds of material and knowledge
• Wonderful 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 concentrate on 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 progressive section. In case you are the form of individual that enjoys a broad spectrum of novel and thrilling challenges, then it is a phenomenal group to hitch. As an SME you’ll be on the coronary heart of coverage resolution making and, for those who really feel you’ve got the data base to contribute, then this position affords you a implausible alternative to be instrumental to this burgeoning trade’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 put up holders should endure Nationwide Safety Vetting and obtain the suitable degree of clearance.

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

If you don’t meet these necessities, we might not be capable of 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’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 number of years’ time. Our transfer is pushed by strategic, operational and environmental concerns.

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 clients.

We are actually 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 have a good time our range 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 akin to:

• Versatile & hybrid working preparations accessible
• 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 help through Occupational Well being & entry to Headspace for colleagues and 5 dependents
• Free onsite gymnasium at Gatwick or discounted gymnasium 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 proper to shut this emptiness early if we obtain adequate functions for the position. Due to this fact, in case you are , please submit your utility as early as doable.

No recruitment businesses please.

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