Principal Adviser

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom Competition & Markets Authority Full time

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

- 352706**Salary**:

- £59,100 - £66,750- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Strategy, Communications and Advocacy**Type of role**:

- Economist
- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the UK's independent authority responsible for promoting competition and protecting consumers' interests. With a focus on ensuring fair and efficient markets, the CMA plays a vital role in driving economic growth and safeguarding consumer welfare.

**About the CMA**

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.

**Job description**:
Principal Advisers play a lead role in identifying opportunities to advise government; in building trusted relationships with key officials; and in providing insightful, timely and analytically-robust advice on the effects of government policy on competition, consumers and markets.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

- Use your understanding of economics and competition to lead the delivery of informal and formal advice, analysis, and support to government on the impact of current and future policy (including regulation, law and other interventions) on competition, consumers and markets.
- Develop and deliver effective plans to promote awareness among officials and elected representatives (in central, devolved and local governments) of how government action can affect competition and consumer outcomes, through a range of approaches, including: training, published guidance, submissions to government consultations and parliamentary inquiries.
- Support colleagues across the CMA to identify opportunities to advise government that might arise from their work; and assist them in devising strategies to manage associated risks and opportunities that come from engaging with government on policy questions.

**Person specification**:
**Essential**:

- A strong understanding of government policy priorities, and of the processes by which policy and law is made and implemented and how it can affect market outcomes. **(Lead criteria)**:

- Ability to acquire, at speed, a detailed knowledge of unfamiliar markets or policy areas.
- Ability to balance multiple competing and changing demands and make informed judgements on prioritisation.
- Experience in communicating and presenting complex material to a range of audiences, from non-technical to specialist, both orally and in writing.
- Experience of working collaboratively, building effective relationships with colleagues and senior decision makers, and delivering in partnership with other organisations or departments with related goals or responsibilities.
- Confidence and ability to use own initiative, and take well-judged decisions.

**_ Professional qualifications and accreditations_**
- An undergraduate degree with at least 50% of the modules in economics; or a masters in economics; or demonstrable equivalent knowledge of competition economics acquired through professional experience. **(Please note that this is also a lead criteria)**

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

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Applied economics

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £59,100, Competition & Markets Authority contributes £15,957 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.You’ll also get:

- 25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King’s birthday. In addition, you’ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering
- Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests
- Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard
- A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional learning opportunities at work

**Our Values**

We are Ambitious and Evidence-based, and always strive for Excell

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