Solicitors Regulation Authority

Legal services have never mattered more. In an increasingly uncertain world, people need all the help they can get and that means the way the legal sector works is changing. If you want to help to shape the future and make a real difference for people and businesses in England and Wales, joining the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is the opportunity you have been looking for.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is the largest regulator of legal services in England and Wales, covering around 90% of the regulated market. It oversees some 220,000 solicitors and around 9,500 law firms.

The SRA works in the public interest, protecting consumers and setting and enforcing high professional standards. It works to help to create an open, modern, inclusive and competitive legal market, providing more affordable and accessible services.

As the SRA consults on its new three-year strategy, it is an exciting time to be regulating legal services. How should it respond to the cost-of-living crisis? What is the potential for technology to increase access to justice? How can it further improve its service to customers? With new challenges and opportunities, ultimately its focus is to achieve its mission of enhancing confidence in legal services.

Reporting directly to and working closely with the CEO, this is an exciting new senior leadership role, leading a team of approx. 30, supporting the CEO and the organisation in making time, information and decision making more effective. The Chief of Staff will be accountable for the functional delivery of adjudication, quality assurance, corporate complaints; as well as, Board secretariat and MLRO teams to deliver an efficient and effective service aligned to a high-performance culture.

The ideal candidate will have proven leadership, excellent political antennae and interpersonal skills and experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams. They must be able to deliver large scale projects and change programmes and be experienced and skilled at using data to influence and drive decision making. The successful candidate should be able to command the confidence of the Executive team, Board and colleagues at all levels of the SRA.

Saxton Bampfylde Ltd is acting as an employment agency advisor to the Solicitors Regulation Authority on this appointment. For further information about the role, including details about how to apply, please visit www.saxbam.com/appointments using reference QAFAAE. Alternatively telephone +44 (0)20 7227 0880 (during office hours). Applications should be received by noon on Friday 7th July 2023.