Senior Associate, Online Safety Fees

Closing Date: 29/09/2026 Group: Online Safety Group Management Level: Senior Associate Job Type: Fixed Term (Fixed Term) Job Description: Please note that this role will close at 00:01 on Monday 12 October, and therefore we advise getting your application in by no later than midnight on Sunday 11 October. About Ofcom  As the UK’s communications regulator, we’re delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected with each other.    Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices. We’re also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place. And we need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help us achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.  About the team you’ll be part of The Online Safety Group’s purpose is to ensure UK citizens have a safer life online by implementing and overseeing the requirements under the Online Safety Act 2023. The Group is responsible for delivering online safety policy, supervising online services, and building technical expertise to meet the regime's aims. This role sits within the Fees team in OS Supervision. OS Supervision provides close, structured engagement with specific services in scope of the online safety regime, alongside an approach to promoting compliance across many thousands of services. The Fees teams is looking for a Senior Associate to play a central role in delivering and developing the Online Safety Fees regime. This is an opportunity to work on high-profile, novel policy issues at the intersection of online safety, regulatory scope, provider engagement and policy implementation.   The purpose and scope of the role Our Fees Senior Associates lead complex policy work, including scope assessments, policy review, and engagement with internal and external stakeholders. This is a high-impact opportunity to work on one of Ofcom’s newer regulatory regimes. The successful candidate will gain experience of complex policy development, provider engagement, governance, litigation-adjacent policy work, consultation development and cross-functional delivery. The role also offers the opportunity to build leadership experience by supporting and mentoring junior colleagues.  The role is offered as a 12-month fixed-term opportunity to support a period of significant policy development, delivery and review activity as the Fees regime moves through its first full year of implementation.     Your Key Responsibilities Lead complex policy work on scope issues, including geographic scope, marketplaces and gaming.  Act as a subject matter expert on the Fees regime for internal and external queries.  Lead the fees policy reviews, including evidence review, consultation development and policy recommendations.  Lead or support key stages of scope assessment work, project management of implementation and project…