Policy Advisers

4 weeks ago

Darlington County Durham, United Kingdom HM Treasury Full time

Are you looking for a stretching and high-profile role with the opportunity to shape Government policy in a wide-ranging and fast-paced area? We are looking to recruit a Senior Policy Adviser to join the Banking and Credit Team (BAC), which sits within the Financial Services Group . The Financial Services Group advises the government on how to promote a stable and efficient financial services sector, to deliver excellent outcomes for consumers and business, enhance the UK’s position as a global hub for financial services and support economic growth across the country.
The financial services sector is important to the UK economy – providing 2.3 million jobs and representing over 10% of tax receipts, making a huge contribution to the UK’s economic output. It also provides essential services to individuals – for example, helping them to purchase goods with ease, buy their first home, and plan for their retirement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it played a critical role in supporting individuals and businesses – for example, in providing payment holidays for individuals and businesses affected by the pandemic and working with the government to deliver Bounce Back Loans.
The Banking and Credit Team (BAC) is a high-profile, friendly and supportive team of about 20 people with interests across a range of important financial services issues. The team leads the Treasury’s policy work on retail banking, mortgages, business lending, building societies and mutuals, dormant assets, and the Government’s strategy for competition in financial services. The team works closely with a large number of Treasury teams (in the Financial Services and Financial Stability Groups, the Fiscal Group and the Enterprise and Growth Unit), other government departments and with a wide range of external stakeholders, including all the major banks.
Lead a branch of one SEO and one HEO’s helping them to deliver across the branch’s busy portfolio while supporting personal development, performance and wellbeing. Proactively monitor and analyse the UK business lending market. This will involve working closely with the British Business Bank, the government-owned development bank, as well as industry and other government departments to assess the demand and supply of capital for businesses and entrepreneurs across the country.
Work closely with other departments and Treasury spending colleagues to design, develop, and introduce policies to support business lending in the UK, such as the Growth Guarantee Scheme.
Lead the Treasury’s oversight of the government’s COVID-19 loan book; communicate key developments in repayment rates for ministers and senior officials and draw analytical insights to inform the development of outstanding policy positions. The post-holder will also lead the Treasury’s engagement with the COVID-19 loans counter-fraud strategy, working closely with other government departments and agencies to solve any outstanding issues, and contribute to our submission to the COVID-19 Inquiry.
Scope and perform discrete analysis to deliver insights into the performance of the business lending market. The post-holder will also have opportunities to provide analytical support on policy issues across the wider Banking and Credit team, including retail banking, home ownership and mortgages.
The post-holder can expect to shape the Treasury’s assessment of how the business lending market is performing and develop policies to support access to lending for small and medium-sized enterprises, such as the Growth Guarantee Scheme. The post-holder will also lead the Treasury’s oversight of the COVID-19 loan guarantee schemes; 5mn businesses through commercial lenders.
The post-holder can expect significant exposure to ministers and senior officials, with opportunities to work with a broad range of internal and external parties including the major banks and alternative finance providers, industry and consumer representatives, the British Business Bank, the Bank of England and other Government Departments.
The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, with an ability to assess a range of information and evaluate evidence to make effective decisions and/or recommendations to seniors and ministers. You will have the ability to lead, motivate and manage a busy team to deliver across a wide portfolio, demonstrating a commitment to inclusion, development and wellbeing. You’ll be ability to represent the Treasury and work with a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels, building relationships proactively to pool expertise to address policy problems.
HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. 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 regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.
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
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Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
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Generous parental and adoption leave packages
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Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%
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Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
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A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form

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