Head of Business Engagement Team

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

- 261529**Salary**:

- £50,550 - £57,500-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- Range E**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMT - Enterprise and Growth**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing
- Policy
- Strategy**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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- This post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road) or Darlington (Feethams House).About the job

**Job summary**:
**About HM Treasury**

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives across the country, the Treasury is the department for you We sit at the centre of everything that the Government does and have provided advice on economic policy and decisions that affect the public finances throughout the country’s history. A Treasury career continues to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK.

Working at the heart of government, we collaborate with other departments to ensure public money is spent well and to drive strong and sustainable economic growth. Our work ranges from protecting customers through to the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, supporting people across the country through the COVID 19 furlough scheme and Plan for Jobs as well as helping first time buyers buy their first home.
- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

**Job description**:
**About the Group - Enterprise and Growth Unit**

The Enterprise and Growth Unit (EGU) promotes sustainable economic growth and higher productivity for the UK. We provide analysis and advice on enterprise, innovation, private sector investment and a cost-effective transition to a low-carbon economy. The Enterprise and Growth Unit has a varied and exciting agenda and we work closely with a wide variety of other teams across the Treasury.

We also work alongside other departments and government organisations to ensure that we are thinking creatively, spending wisely and acting boldly to deliver these goals. These organisations are:

- the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy,
- the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs,
- the Department for Transport,
- the Department for International Trade,
- the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, and
- the Competition and Markets Authority

In addition, the Director-General represents the Treasury on the group of Chief Scientific Advisors, and acts as the Treasury’s Disability Champion. The Director-General is supported by three Directors, covering Climate, Environment and Energy; Growth and Infrastructure, and Companies and Economic Security.

**About the Team**

HM Treasury values Business Engagement as an integral part of policy development proposals as well as being important in building strong relationships between business and industry. As such, the Enterprise & Growth Unit (EGU) has a team of 5FTE dedicated to its support and facilitation and the postholder will be responsible for managing this team with direct line management responsibility for at least 2 of the team. The team manages an exciting and varied programme of engagements at both ministerial and official level and coordinates and contributes to a range of briefings and advice both related to engagement and on issues of interest to EGU more widely.

**Key Accountabilities**

The Head of the Business Engagement Team will be required to set an ambitious vision for the team using their political awareness and judgement to make decisions about where engagement activity should be prioritised as well as ensuring that this is timed to deliver maximum value for HM Treasury.
- A highly skilled relationship builder who enjoys working collaboratively in order to deliver objectives;
- An experienced people manager with the ability to get the best out of their team with a strong focus on helping their direct reports to develop in post;
- Politically astute with an ability to build their understanding of economic growth policy;
- Interested in the work of HM Treasury and the Enterprise & Growth Unit’s role in helping build our future economy.

**Key Accountabilities for this role include**:

- Leadership of a team of 3FTE, with direct line management of at least 2 FTE.
- Developing and delivering a Business Engagement Strategy to drive meaningful engagement activity across the Enterprise and Growth Unit, as well as HM Treasury more widely.
- Managing relationships with a range of internal stakeholders ensuring that the team is well connected to ongoing policy work within HM Treasury as well as relevant developments across Government;
- Managing relationships with external stakeholders - predomina