About the role
As our Chief Policy Officer, you'll play a central role in strengthening UCL’s governance and compliance environment, ensuring that the institution operates effectively within its internal and external regulatory frameworks. You'll lead UCL’s institution‑wide approach to policy governance, working with specialist teams to manage, develop and maintain UCL’s extensive policy portfolio. You'll provide strategic oversight of policy development, ensuring consistency, transparency and alignment with legal, regulatory and institutional requirements.
You'll maintain an up‑to‑date policy register, implement a robust policy lifecycle management framework, and establish clear processes for policy development, consultation, endorsement and approval. You'll use your excellent communication and networking skills to work with colleagues across UCL to ensure delivery, and provide expert advice to senior stakeholders.
This is a high‑impact job that will shape UCL’s policy landscape and strengthen governance, risk management and compliance across the institution.
A full job description is attached to this advert.
About you
To do this job, you'll need be an experienced legal professional with a strong record of operating at a senior level within a large and complex organisation, bringing clarity, leadership and strategic insight to UCL’s policy environment. You will be a qualified solicitor or barrister with relevant post‑qualification experience and a current (or eligible) practising certificate from the SRA or BSB.
You will have significant experience influencing and advising at senior management and board level, together with excellent drafting and communication skills and the ability to synthesise complex information and balance differing perspectives. Strong stakeholder‑engagement skills, exceptional organisation, attention to detail and experience developing and promulgating policy within a complex organisation are all essential.
Please review the job description, paying particular attention to the essential and desirable criteria, and ensure these are covered in your application.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
1. 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
2. Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
3. Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
4. Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
5. Immigration loan
6. Relocation scheme for certain posts
7. On-Site nursery
8. On-site gym
9. Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
10. Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
11. Discounted medical insurance