Innovation Engagement and Co-ordination Senior - London, United Kingdom - Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Conduct Authority

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Innovation Engagement and Co-ordination Senior Associate

The team/department

An innovative industry demands an innovative regulator.

The FCA's Innovation department is looking for talented, motivated and outcome focused individuals with varied experience and backgrounds to join our enthusiastic and diverse team.

We sit within the Data, Technology and Innovation Division, which is at the forefront of transforming the FCA as we meet the demands of a digital regulatory future.

We support the FCA to be a progressive and forward-thinking regulator.

We protect consumers, encourage competition and work with innovative financial services firms to deliver the best products and services that they can.

We see our role as enabling the financial services sector to achieve its potential.

In a nutshell, we want to support innovative businesses in the interest of consumers and markets, not just scrutinise them.

We are currently recruiting an Engagement and Co-ordination lead to join our Change and Development team.

Change and Development is a new team within Innovation. Technology is rapidly changing financial services and we must ensure that we evolve alongside the industry we regulate.

Our aim is to be at the forefront of regulatory innovation - over the last few years our Regulatory Sandbox, firm support model, and TechSprint programme have been adopted by other regulators around the world, as well as producing cutting-edge thinking in sectors such as artificial intelligence and emerging technology.

But in the Change team, our role is to ask, "what's next?". And then build it.

We're responsible for the department's transformation agenda, including scoping and developing new service lines and initiatives, optimising existing ones, as well as our external and internal engagement programme.

In this role you will work with a broad array of stakeholders on exciting cross-cutting sectors.

We work closely with technologists, financial institutions, start-ups, academia and peer regulators to ensure that FCA Innovation is a modern and bleeding-edge regulatory function.

For anyone thinking of joining, a strong interest in emerging technology such as AI, CryptoAssets, Machine Learning, DLT and blockchain, cloud and digital transformation would be a plus.

What you will be doing (the role)- Work closely with our Communications division to shape the Innovation Comms strategy.

This will include working across the department to agree priority messages, overarching narrative, success metrics, outcomes, delivery timeline and the creation of brilliant content that gets our stakeholder's attention.- Ownership of the Comms relationship and to act as single point of contact for Innovation and the FCA Comms department.

Ensure consistency and alignment with the broader FCA Comms strategy.

Co-ordinate across our departmental workstreams and feed into central comms team via regular updates and maintain a clear forward agenda.- Express creative freedom to identify and scope new and opportunities to land our strategy, such as podcasts, online media, or even in the metaverse- Oversee the launch of refreshed Innovation brand and style, working with graphic designers and embedding into BAU.- Build-up an active stakeholder network and an engagement programme within the FCA, seeking opportunities to input and amplify our communications and convey the Innovation messages to appropriate stakeholders.- Overall ownership and delivery of internal Innovation pulse content, co-ordinating across teams to ensure we have helpful and up to date content.- Liaise across department to build up and maintain a repository of assets, such as stock briefings, 'lines to take' and slide templates.- Co-ordinate our published material, including speech writing, FCA website updates and other publications, ensuring timely and clear updates into our central Comms division.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum- Evidence of working pro-actively and independently to scope and deliver communications or stakeholder engagement projects.- Experience scoping, developing and managing engagement initiatives within an organisation.- Strong communicator (written and verbal) with the power to engage, motivate and influence a diverse range people at all levels- Understands content strategy and how to identify, create, disseminate and measure content that drives engagement- Ability to co-ordinate projects and collaborate with varied stakeholders.

Essential- Experience of turning complex business goals and information into communication objectives, clear key messages, and engaging content- Experience of working on strategic communications and developing a compelling overarching narrative or story from constituent parts.

- Ability to build strong working relationships both internally and externally, to persuade and influence and gain credibility and respect from all areas of the organisation- Strong planning and organisational skills managing multiple