Deputy Director EU/GB Borders

This is a critical role in delivering the Government's vision for the end of Transition Period from being an EU Member State to a fully independent sovereign state. Government has agreed a phased introduction of new import controls on goods imported from the EU and subject to sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks (animals, plants and their products) during 2021.

The level of change required to deliver this regime is extensive - new legislation, infrastructure, specialist border staff, expanded laboratory capacity and IT systems and replacement of EU processes with domestic ones.

You will be one of several DDs in the SPS Border and Boundaries Programme which delivers change in the field of animal and plant health controls at the GB or UK border or boundary. It in principle delivers to a scope set by the Policy teams in the Animal and Plant Health and Welfare Directorate.

The broad policy framework of what needs to be delivered is agreed so this project is now moving into its delivery phase and this role is increasingly a delivery role. However there will be lots of more minor policy decisions that will require consulting with and influencing the policy sponsors in APHW so an understanding and experience of policy making will be an advantage

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