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486366 Policy Team Manager

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency

Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 9th November 2026

📍 Location: Swansea (This role is suitable for hybrid working)

💷 Salary: £37,090 – A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕘️ Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

🏆️ Available Positions: 2

This is an opportunity to play a key role in developing and delivering evidence-based policy that supports DVLA, DfT and the wider motoring landscape.

You will lead a team providing strategic policy advice to colleagues, senior officials, ministers and stakeholders, ensuring policies remain robust, legally compliant and aligned with organisational priorities. You will use research, data and stakeholder insight to review existing policies, shape new approaches and identify risks and opportunities.

Alongside your policy responsibilities, you will provide effective leadership to your team, champion continuous improvement and help deliver efficient, customer-focused services, with a particular emphasis on enabling digital solutions across the organisation.

Top Responsibilities

• Manage a team providing strategic policy advice to DVLA, DfT, ministers and stakeholders, ensuring compliance with legal frameworks, policy requirements and corporate objectives, while robustly defending DVLA’s position where appropriate.
• Draft and oversee the delivery of high-quality ministerial submissions, briefings, PQ responses and policy correspondence, ensuring timely, politically aware advice for ministers, senior officials and government stakeholders.
• Develop and influence evidence based policy through: –
  •    Reviewing of existing policies and legislation.
  •    Researching and reviewing of data/information from available sources (stakeholders, customers, agency business areas, ministers, MP’s, etc.)
  •    Analysing and interpreting trend data, undertaking stakeholder engagement and consultation.
  •    Clarifying policy positions and challenging precedents.
  •    Adherence to appropriate Agency or governmental policies and practices for legislative change and spend approval.
  •    Effective influence of implementation considering deregulatory measures to minimise the burden of change on customers, stakeholders and the industry.

For more information on the role and responsibilities please see the full job advert on CS Jobs using the link provided.

Benefits

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here

• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).

• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.

• Access to the staff discount portal.

• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.

• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.

• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.

• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About You

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Strong stakeholder management skills including how you build and sustain relationships, successfully influence and manage challenge from stakeholders and/or customers.
• Delivering quality work to tight deadlines, effectively handling competing priorities, working flexibly to achieve objective.
• Have political awareness with exceptional drafting skills and outstanding written and verbal communication skills, to produce concise and accurate briefings, reports and submissions.
• Ability to review and analyse data to make effective decisions, conclusions and decisions, weighing up competing considerations and provide well-reasoned recommendations.
• Be a highly motivated and proactive individual who enjoys a varied workload.

How to Apply

👉 Read the full description and apply here: https://bit.ly/4ySzMTw

This vacancy closes at 23:55 on Monday 9^th November 2026