Are you looking for an exciting and influential role with the opportunity to work across a wide range of UK macroeconomic issues and the wider policy-making process? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team The Macroeconomic Assessment (MA) Team is at the core of the Treasury’s function as an economics Ministry. MA is a friendly, supportive and inclusive team who work collaboratively to deliver our objective of providing expert macroeconomic analysis to support policy development. As a team, we play a central role in analysing developments in the UK economy and risks to the outlook. We seek to produce high quality and influential macroeconomic analysis, working with colleagues across the department and the OBR. MA is committed to ensuring the team is a fun, engaging and friendly place to work, where everyone is supported to develop and progress. About the Job In this role, you will:
1. Lead macroeconomic analysis on household consumption, incomes and savings, including analysis on the Government’s Growth Mission commitment to raise living standards over the Parliament. 2. Lead HMT’s analysis of the housing market. 3. Advise on the macroeconomic impacts of policy measures that affect the housing market or household finances, working closely with teams in HMRC, Ministry of Housing and the Office for Budget Responsibility. 4. Communicate your analysis to senior officials, special advisers and Ministers through regular briefing and policy advice. 5. Develop and maintaining the team’s (predominantly R-based) suite of forecasting and analytical models. Coding experience is not required, but a willingness and enthusiasm to learn is! 6. Build strong collaborative partnerships with policy and analytical colleagues both inside and outside the department, staying abreast of relevant policy developments to ensure the team’s economic analysis is comprehensive and timely. 7. Manage and develop a team of two assistant economists and one apprentice economist - providing leadership, support and stretching opportunities. 8. Promote a positive culture in the team and the group. Contribute to corporate workstreams to help shape the improvement of the organisation. Show a clear commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion and belonging in the team and Group.
In your first months in the role, we would expect you to familiarise yourself with the team’s models, data and analysis to establish yourself as an expert in the household sector, in preparation for leading policy and forecast analysis ahead of the 2025 Autumn Budget. We would support you in this through handover from the current post holder, and allowing time and space in your initial time in role to build your knowledge and expertise.
About You The successful candidate will have the ability to deliver high quality, influential economic analysis. You’ll be able to structure, plan and prioritise to deliver consistently high-quality work on time. You will have effective communication skills, including an ability to distil key messages and uncertainties from technical work and communicate clearly to senior officials and ministers. Lastly you will have the ability to work collaboratively with others and build effective working relationships to deliver joint objectives.
Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.l
Do you have experience of effectively and accurately delivering transactional HR services whilst working at pace? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
About the Team The People and Capability Team are part of the Corporate Centre Group that delivers a wide range of corporate services to enable people at HM Treasury and many of the other organisations who form part of the Treasury Group (including the Government Internal Audit Agency and the Debt Management Office) to operate effectively and efficiently.
The People and Capability Team provide services in Recruitment, Onboarding, Employee Lifecycle Processing, HR Policy, Workforce Planning, Case Work, HR Business Partnering, Pay and Reward, Learning and Development, Pensions and People Strategy to name a few! This is a fantastic opportunity to develop HR operational management experience and at an exciting time, as we transform our services, making use of innovation and technology.
About the Job In this role, you will: · Oversee fast paced, high volume day-to-day service delivery, ensuring work is effectively distributed and processed to time and quality standards. · Line-manage 2 people, enabling effective development, performance and wellbeing. · Act as a point of escalation for complex transactional HR queries, ensuring timely and accurate guidance. · Accurately sign off complex HR and pay affecting activity. · Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders, including service teams, HR policy specialists, external HR teams, business partners and senior management, enabling the effective delivery of HR services. · Operationalise HR policy and service improvement change, ensuring processes are robust. · Ensure the team continues to upskill in behavioural and technical ability, to meet emerging demands and change in HR processing.
About You You will be accountable for the effective delivery of transactional HR services in our Employee Lifecycle and HR Helpdesk Team (Team of 7) who are responsible for processing; ministerial change, exit, family leave, outbound loan and secondment and change to working hours requests, in line with departmental HR policy and payroll deadlines.
You will effectively manage a team to deliver a high volume of HR and pay affecting activity to time and quality standards . You will use credible sources of information to make effective decisions and resolve complex HR requests. You will also work with your team to improve skills and behaviours, enabling them to become more effective in their role.
Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form.
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth. About the Team Within Fiscal Group, the Debt & Reserves Management (DRM) team manages key financial assets and liabilities on the public sector balance sheet using analysis, oversight and through links to our main partners: the Bank of England (the Bank), the Debt Management Office, National Savings & Investments, and the Royal Mint. This role is part of the Debt and Liabilities Branch in DRM. We are responsible for advising ministers on debt and cash management policy, ensuring the government can raise the money it needs to fund public services both over the course of a year and on a day-to-day basis. We work closely with the Debt Management Office (DMO), an Executive Agency of the Treasury responsible for debt and cash management operations, such as gilt (UK government bond) auctions. About the Job Key Accountabilities: 1. Being the department’s lead on debt management policy, setting the policy direction in this space and underpinning all decisions with robust analysis (for example, setting the DMO’s financing remit at fiscal events and leading the process for producing and publishing the annual Debt Management Report ). 2. Building and contributing expertise to shape developments in wider areas of government policy and their interaction with debt management (for example broader fiscal strategy, and changes to the pension system), thinking strategically about future challenges and opportunities for delivering debt management policy. 3. Leading the DMO sponsor branch/policy partner function, overseeing a wide set of policy and sponsor issues such as public appointments and framework/governance issues, and managing the working level relationship between the DMO and HMT. 4. Actively contributing to the Treasury’s financial markets team, building expertise to synthesise complex market developments for ministers and senior officials. 5. Line managing one Senior Executive Officer, plus additional task management depending on live priorities.
This is a technical and stretching Grade 7 role, where the postholder will be responsible for overseeing a varied workload covering technical financial market policy matters. You do not require a formal background or qualifications in economics and/or financial markets to apply for, or be successful in, the role – but you must be able to demonstrate an interest in these subjects and a willingness to learn in post. We will examine your motivations in applying for the role at interview. About You The postholder will be responsible for leading all aspects of a varied portfolio on government debt management policy. This will include advising ministers on the DMO’s financing remit, which sets out how much the DMO should borrow in financial markets and how that should be split between different financial instruments, as well as related policy development and analysis. The postholder will need to quickly get to grips with a technical policy area and speedily establish credibility with key policy partners, both within the department and beyond (e.g. with the UK Debt Management Office) Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
Are you a proactive individual looking for a role with an interesting, varied and high-profile portfolio and opportunities to work closely with senior civil servants, Ministerial offices and Press Office? If so, read on !
About the Team The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) sits within HM Treasury, has been operational since March 2016 and quickly established itself as a world-leader in financial sanctions, a key area of financial, foreign and national security policy. It remains front and centre of an unprecedented financial sanctions response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
HM Treasury implements financial sanctions in the UK, and OFSI fulfils this role on its behalf. It leads on the implementation of UN and UK financial sanctions and domestic terrorist asset freezing, providing a high-quality service to the private and charitable sectors, and guidance to help them follow the law. It works closely with law enforcement, intelligence agencies and strategic policy colleagues across Whitehall and beyond to help ensure that financial sanctions are accurately understood, implemented and enforced. OFSI has important partner relationships in the regulated financial services sector, the primary implementers of financial sanctions, and is an integral part of the sanctions community worldwide.
The role will be in the Strategic Communications & Parliamentary Engagement branch that leads on OFSI’s comms, guidance and parliamentary engagement. This means the team is constantly looking for innovative ways to get OFSI’s messages to the public, industry and press. By translating OFSI’s policy and UK legislation into guidance which our stakeholders can rely, the team works to maximise compliance with UK sanctions. The team co-ordinates OFSI’s engagement with Parliament and monitors MPs’ interest in sanctions – as well as identifying proactive engagement opportunities, we centrally co-ordinate OFSI’s response to parliamentary processes such as select committee inquiries.
About the Job In this role, you will: · Set the strategic direction for discrete areas of work and priority projects – leading projects from inception to fruition. Developing and delivering communications plans, guidance products and social media. Maintaining high standards for themselves and others. · Lead the development and delivery of sanctions guidance –producing and updating OFSI’s portfolio of digestible industry and public guidance, working with industry partners, cross-Government and international partners. In the past this included comms and guidance on the Oil Price Cap on Russian oil, the maritime sector, Arts/ High Value Dealers and Charities. · Lead on responding to sanctions-related press queries – working closely with HMT press office and OFSI teams, formulate responses to press queries which effectively communicate and reflect the government’s position on key policy and operational issues. · Lead the co-ordination and development of OFSI’s Annual Review – working independently to agree an approach with senior leadership, generating new ideas about how to communicate OFSI’s content in a clear and engaging way and develop new strategies to increase engagement with the product. · Delivering through others for success – leading the team to deliver successful outcomes for OFSI. Delegating effectively, setting direction and facilitating coherently to support the team to succeed.
About You The position would suit someone with ambition and drive with experience and/or a strong interest in communications and stakeholder management; Parliamentary affairs; co-ordination and project management and Leadership.
Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link. If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form
Do you have excellent analytical skills and are looking for a varied and stretching portfolio of responsibilities? If so, read on !
About the Team The Analytical Projects Unit sits within the Economic Risks and Analytical Projects Unit team in the Economics Group. It provides analytical expertise and support to critical projects across HM Treasury. Members of the team are deployed on projects covering a range of public policy issues – both influencing HMT’s macroeconomic policy within Economics Group and building the evidence base for policymaking across other areas.
The Unit is led by a Grade 6, with two Grade 7, three Senior Executive Officers, one Higher Executive Officer, and two Economics Apprentices. Oversight is provided by the Deputy Director for Economic Risks and Analytical Projects Unit and the Director of Economics. It is a friendly and supportive team, working in a matrix management style, where team members feel valued.
Joining the team is an excellent way of gaining an overview of HMT’s work, building a network, and being involved in high-profile Ministerial priorities.
About the Job Key accountabilities for this role include: · The Unit employs a matrix management structure for staff working on projects. The post holder will be responsible for line management of an Apprentice Economist with a strong focus on staff development. The post holder will build effective relationships with the project managers to whom project staff are allocated to ensure excellent day-to-day management and regular feedback is provided. · Integrating in a new team and becoming abreast of the policy area quickly. This will include understanding who key stakeholders are, proactively developing an understanding of the area, and setting the project’s scope within this. · Scoping out and planning analytical projects, including by identifying the best analytical techniques, the key outputs, and prioritising work streams with the greatest impact to improve HMT’s understanding of an issue and inform policy advice. · Delivering high quality analytical projects at pace, working collaboratively with policy teams across HM Treasury and other Government departments. There may also be opportunities to task-manage staff on projects. · Communicating the conclusions of the project to Senior Officials, Ministers, and other partners, influencing the strategic direction of HMT policy.
About You You will need to have experience delivering analytical projects, be able to work collaboratively with a range of partners and get up to speed on new issues quickly.
You will complete projects lasting around 3 months that apply analytical tools and techniques, as well as economic knowledge, to support policymaking in line with Ministerial priorities, often at pace.
Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link. If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form.
Are you looking for an exciting, high profile Spending Principal role offering significant opportunities to work with Ministers and senior officials on a high priority policy area ? If so, we’d love to hear from you !
About the Team The Justice, Home Affairs and Equalities team are part of the Public Services Group at the heart of HM Treasury’s work to secure sustainable public finances and drive economic growth. We manage public spending of more than £250bn. across key public services and departments, including health, education, the criminal justice system, local government, housing, defence and the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
We are a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive team responsible for HM Treasury’s relationship with the Home Office, National Crime Agency, Ministry of Justice, Law Officer’s Departments, Parliament’s spending, and our equalities responsibilities. As a team, we are committed to personal development, and achieving a healthy work-life balance.
You will join the Home Office branch of the team, which leads on spending control of the Home Office, law enforcement strategy, and borders and asylum policy.
About the Job Your responsibilities will include: · Delivering effective spending control of the Home Office - Working alongside the department to understand their financial plans, identify and mitigate spending risks, and work closely with Home Office and Treasury colleagues as issues arise. The role will involve finding opportunities for a more efficient use of resources and supporting ministers in taking difficult decisions on how to deliver quality outcomes for the taxpayer. You will also lead on delivering Mains and Supplementary Estimates (including negotiating reserve claims) for the department. · Leading at spending reviews - You will play a key leadership role at spending reviews, coordinating work from across the team to form its view of the numbers, and leading the relationship with central teams in HMT, helping show the trade-offs between the marginal investment or saving in the Home Office versus the equivalent elsewhere in Government. · Leading the development and delivery of high-profile policy reforms – Leading on visa and legal migration policy, the Home Office’s workforce strategy, the Home Office's wider efficiencies work and its capital portfolio. This will entail working with the department at senior levels to support and challenge proposals as they develop to ensure they deliver value for money. · Providing advice on new policy ideas or ad hoc spending issues as they arise · Managing Senior Executive Officers (SEO) and Higher Executive Officers (HEO) – the role currently line manages an SEO and an HEO. You will also contribute to matrix and task managing the wider group of HEOs in the team.
About You This is a stretching Grade 7 role and will require developing and maintaining positive relationships with teams across the Treasury, Home Office, No.10 and Cabinet Office.
You will have strong analytical, numerical and policy skills and the ability to make effective judgements drawing on different sources of quantitative and qualitative evidence. You will be able to understand the broader strategic context and keep on top of a wide range of issues when making decisions in your policy area. You will also have stakeholder management and influencing skills, with a proven ability to deliver through others and build positive relationships with a range of senior partners.
Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link. If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form
Do you have strong problem-solving skills, the ability to clearly explain your thinking in writing and in person, and determination overcome challenges and see your ideas through? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team Tax Administration, Spending and Reform (TASR) is an outstanding, friendly, and diverse team of 16 people based across the London and Darlington offices. We are the Treasury team responsible for supporting HMRC in delivering Government priorities – from raising tax revenue to fund public services, to simplifying the tax system, and tackling tax avoidance and evasion to close the tax gap. TASR’s work is of fundamental importance to the Treasury, the Chancellor, and wider government. We work closely with a wide range of HMRC and HM Treasury teams to deliver tax policy, and we also act as the spending team for HMRC, ensuring HMRC spending is sustainable and meets the government’s wider objectives. We are seeking to attract diverse, skilled, and impactful people and are keen to encourage applications from candidates with various backgrounds and ranges of experience.
About the Job In this role, you will: 1. Take lead responsibility in the Treasury for developing government policy and strategy on modernising and improving the tax admin system 2. Lead the Treasury’s interest in HMRC’s flagship “Making Tax Digital” programme 3. Provide lead Treasury scrutiny and spending control for HMRC’s spending on tax administration and maintenance programmes 4. Lead as a source of expertise on tax administration for HMT tax colleagues for the development of new tax measures, ensuring tax policy is consistent with the Government’s ambition and commitment for a simpler and easier tax system 5. Make a significant contribution to the wider working and culture of the TASR team
About You The successful candidate will: · An ability to work with a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels, building positive working relationships across teams and departments, delivering through others, and bringing people and views together behind a common purpose to deliver results for Ministers. · An ability to work independently, developing project plans and driving forward longer-term programmes of work to advance strategic objectives, securing engagement and support from senior colleagues, while dealing effectively with a busy workload and delivering shorter-term demands and objectives. · Understanding the context and wider objectives driving your work; ensuring these objectives are communicated to colleagues, and brought together when planning and completing your work.
Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.
Contract type: Permanent Working Pattern: This post is available on a Full Time basis (Flexible working hours can be accommodated) Location: Darlington (Feethams House)
Do you want to advise ministers on promoting and protecting the UK’s economy and its competitiveness internationally in a fast-changing environment? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) sits within HM Treasury and has been operational since March 2016. In our first six years we quickly established ourselves as a world-leader in financial sanctions, a key area of financial, foreign and national security policy. We remain front and centre of an unprecedented financial sanctions response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. OFSI's Litigation team are looking for a Senior Sanctions Adviser. We handle OFSI’s legal challenges and promote awareness and understanding of legal risk to ensure that OFSI can implement sanctions effectively. The unprecedented speed, scale and complexity of the UK’s sanctions response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a step change in the risks faced by OFSI. Responding to this significant increase in sanctions litigation has been at the forefront of the dynamic and exciting work we have undertaken recently.
Key Accountabilities 1. Lead workstreams to progress OFSI’s major legal proceedings. You may be attending meetings and court hearings, carrying out research and analysis to strengthen cases, preparing and inputting into key submissions, advice and documents, and managing processes around disclosing OFSI material. 2. Provide specialist advice across OFSI on how to progress high-risk casework, delivering excellent customer service. Bring together partners, including Treasury Legal Advisers, where needed to devise effective processes and ensure robust handling of high-risk casework. 3. Delivery of OFSI’s Monetary Penalty Reviews or Counter Terrorism Administrative Reviews, including supporting Ministers in their review of OFSI monetary penalty decisions for financial sanctions breaches or domestic terrorism designations, collaborating with OFSI Enforcement and TLA colleagues to analyse legal representations and coordinating the compilation of evidence to enable the Minister to make an informed decision. 4. Design, develop, and deliver training opportunities and resources for OFSI colleagues on how to understand and handle legal risk in their work. Collaborate with colleagues across different teams to ensure high-quality and impactful training and resources. 5. Work with data and technology to better understand our risks and cases, providing insights to decision-makers. Finding opportunities to push technology further to streamline our casework, or operations.
About you Although previous experience of financial sanctions or public law litigation is not essential, you will need to demonstrate the potential to quickly develop an understanding of the complexities and sensitivities of our work. You will be able to communicate complex issues effectively orally and in writing, as well as analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support complex decision making. Lastly, you’ll be able to handle a varied workload in a fast-paced environment, balancing proactive project work and reactive tasks in order meet immediate and longer-term goals.
About us HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances.
Some of the Benefits our people love! 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month. Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours). Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages. A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28% Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances. A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help met the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes. A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the HM Treasury recruitment team.
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.
About the Team Communications and Engagement team Communications and engagement is a welcoming, inclusive team acting as the face of OFSI within the UK and internationally. We collaborate as a close-knit team to ensure we maximise the impact of our respective portfolios and ensure the effective implementation of the financial sanctions regime. We offer exciting, stretching and varied roles that work closely with seniors and stakeholders across government, the UK and internationally. The industry engagement branch is the external face of OFSI, working with a wide range of industries and stakeholders to make sure financial sanctions are understood, complied with and are functioning as intended. This means the team are constantly looking for innovative ways to get OFSI’s messages to our stakeholders, be they a high street bank, a law firm, a crypto currency exchange or charity. This job isn’t just about getting OFSI’s messages out to our stakeholders it’s about listening too. The team form an integral part of the feedback loop OFSI have with our stakeholders, working alongside industry to solve challenges together. A welcoming and friendly team.
About the Job In this role, you will: 1. Lead relationship management with key strategically important sector/s, acting as a key point of contact and trusted advisor. 2. Building sanctions and sectoral expertise to become a trusted adviser to stakeholders. 3. Line management responsibility for 2 HEO’s – Supporting direct report in their role, providing and facilitating development opportunities to enable and empower them for successful delivery. Additionally providing support for the wider leadership of the branch; support a team culture based on innovation and inclusion; 4. Identify operational issues where there may be a communications solution and taking this forward in collaboration with other members of OFSI. 5. Strategic oversight of the events process, providing clear steers to support outcome-based delivery. 6. Lead on stakeholder queries, helping find solutions to unusual and challenging problems. The successful candidate will work closely with a range of business to raise awareness and understanding of the importance of financial sanctions. Responsibilities will include attending and chairing industry events, crafting effective communications strategies to engage new and existing audiences, producing briefings for ministers and other seniors ahead of sanctions-related meetings, working closely with OFSI colleagues to address stakeholder queries, and proactively seeking opportunities to engage with OFSI’s audiences. The successful candidate will lead engagement for several sectors in their own right and contribute to cross-government sanctions strategy as it relates to industry engagement, working closely alongside the FCDO and DBT, and other government departments as required. To succeed in this role the candidate will need to feel confident proactively driving forward workstreams independently to deliver impactful results. About You This is an interesting and challenging role, working in a high-profile and sensitive policy area. The position would suit someone with experience and/or a strong interest in: · External affairs and stakeholder management · Project management and formulating strategy · Communicating policy issues Some of the Benefits our people love! · 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month · Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) · Generous parental and adoption leave packages · Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97% · Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances · A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
Contract type: Permanent Working Pattern: This post is available on a Full Time basis (Flexible working hours can be accommodated) Location: Darlington (Feethams House)
Are you looking to join a friendly team, working to provide analytical support on the impacts of policies on the labour market? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
About the Team The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a small group of outstanding analysts and policy makers. We seek to bring together an understanding of households’ living standards and position in the labour market, with key labour market policies, such as DWP’s unemployment regime and tax-free childcare.
About the Role By joining us as an Assistant Economist, you'll work closely with policy teams across HM Treasury to provide analytical support on the impacts of policies on the labour market. You’ll contribute to microeconomic analysis of earnings and employment, as well as analysis of work incentives in the tax and welfare system, and National Living and Minimum Wage analysis. Key accountabilities Conduct microeconomic analysis to drive the policy debate. Analytical conclusions have to be presented, clearly and succinctly, including to non-economists. Provide advice and briefing to HM Treasury seniors and ministers. You will work on the analysis to support the annual uprating decision of the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage and will lead on the modelling to support this. Work with colleagues in HM Treasury, other government departments and external organisations to deliver government objectives. Help to build and communicate HM Treasury’s understanding of the wider evidence on labour markets. You will be encouraged to develop and maintain a strong grasp of the external debate, engaging with experts from academia and the think-tank community. Keeping up to date on different earnings datasets, through working with partners across Government alongside academics.
About you We are looking for someone who holds a degree with at least a 50% economics component. You'll have experience of using high-quality economic and/or quantitative analysis to influence decisions, as well as using (or being keen to learn!) statistical software packages such as Stata and R. You’ll need to work independently and proactively, to handle a full workload with short timescales. You’ll also be able to build and maintain positive working relationships to deliver joint objectives. Lastly, you’ll have the ability to communicate complex analysis efficiently to a senior, non-technical audience such as Ministers, Special Advisers and senior civil servants.
About us HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances.
Some of the Benefits our people love! 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month. Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours). Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages. A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28% Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances. A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help met the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes. A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the HM Treasury recruitment team.
