Trade Agreement Best Practice Adviser

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 345401**Salary**:

- £32,858 - £38,272- National: £32,858 - £34,586 London: £36,583 - £38,272- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Trade Policy Implementation & Negotiation (TPIN)**Type of role**:

- International Trade
- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are seeking a dynamic and motivated person to join the Negotiations Coherence team which works centrally across the UK’s international trade programme.

The Negotiations Coherence team sits within the Trade Policy, Implementation and Negotiations Group (TPIN). Our team works across DBT, Whitehall and beyond to ensure that the UK achieves the best outcomes in trade negotiations - a key priority for the Secretary of State for Business and Trade.

As a Trade Agreement Best Practice Adviser, you will play an important role in supporting the team’s work to develop a culture of continuous improvement in UK trade negotiations. Through effective internal and external engagement, the post holder will make a significant contribution to ensuring best practice is recorded and followed throughout the negotiation lifecycle. This will involve leading lessons learned exercises with a range of teams and developing insights that will enhance our approach to future UK trade negotiations. You will own the team’s guidance documents with primary responsibility for ensuring best practice is regularly reviewed and that guidance remains relevant and useful for negotiating teams. You will focus primarily on Free Trade Agreement negotiations but also support work to ensure that best practice in other trade policy work is properly considered and reflected in best practice guidance.

The role will be suited to a self-starter who wants to work across a broad range of projects and is able to balance short-term priorities alongside longer-term strategic work. It will offer significant exposure to different areas of the organisation, opportunities for ownership and delivery of solutions, as well as close working with seniors.

You will join our expert, agile, and supportive team that takes pride in ensuring that the UK’s trade policy operates effectively, innovatively, and strategically.

**Job description**:
As a Trade Agreement Best Practice Adviser you will:

- Play a key role in driving forward the team’s continuous improvement work, ensuring key lessons from previous trade negotiations are captured and implemented across DBT.
- Draft clear, well-written pieces of guidance on key aspects of trade agreement delivery to support future trade negotiations, working with colleagues to build and maintain written resources.
- Develop and manage productive relationships with colleagues from across the department to keep track of live issues across the Department’s work programme.
- Undertake project work on a range of areas, problem solving with relevant teams on urgent issues, and preparing reports and advice for senior decision making.
- Support the wider team in any other policy or corporate activities as necessary.

**Person specification**:
**Essential criteria**
- An ability to build and maintain strong networks and relationships with colleagues to deliver in a complex and fast paced environment.
- An ability to balance competing priorities - both in terms of workload and different views on approaches to tackling an issue - to tight deadlines.
- Capacity for problem solving and finding innovative solutions to tricky issues.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

**Desirable criteria**
- Understanding of the international trade landscape including knowledge of the key international trade organisations and current international trade policy trends.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £32,858, Department for Business and Trade contributes £8,871 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.Interviews for this va

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