Senior Policy Advisor

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

- 245960**Salary**:

- £50,550 - £57,500-
**Job grade**:

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

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- 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.

The Darlington Economic Campus is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring people together across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important issues of the day.

HM Treasury in Darlington will be joined by the Department for International Trade, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Department for Education, Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport and the Competition and Markets Authority

**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

**About the Team**

We would like to recruit two people to the Special Situations & Companies and Sectors Resilience (CASR) team within the Companies and Economic Security (CES) unit in EGU. Special Situations & CASR is a dynamic, open and inclusive team of diverse people who support and develop one another, whilst undertaking challenging work to determine the Governments’ role in supporting firms and sectors. We are a team of 25 working on several high profile and exciting policy areas, which are a chancellor priority. The core role of the team is to assess and manage all requests to HMG for bespoke financial interventions for strategically significant companies and to provide far reaching analysis on vulnerable companies and sectors to influence HMT policymaking. The team is also heavily engaged in the development of cross-economy support schemes to respond to the impact of economic shocks (e.g. COVID-19 or the recent energy crisis). Our current cross-economy support work includes designing and implementing the Energy Markets Financing Scheme (EMFS) which is being introduced to address extraordinary liquidity requirements faced by energy firms from high and volatile energy prices. We are also leading HMT’s work on the BEIS-led Energy Bill Relief Scheme (EBRS), through which the Government is supporting non-domestic customers with their energy bills.

We are looking for individuals both to support the Special Situations function of the team to manage casework related to strategically significant firms and to support our work on the cross-e