Head of Local Transport and Roads

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

- 255174**Salary**:

- £61,260 - £66,500- £64,260 - £66,500 (London) / £61,260 - £63,500 (National)**Job grade**:

- Grade 6-
**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- 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
- The 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**:
The Transport team is a friendly, energetic, and supportive team. It is responsible for managing the Treasury’s interests in transport policy - both as a finance and economics ministry. We are outward-looking to the Department for Transport, which has one of the biggest capital budgets in Whitehall. EGU and the Transport team have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, welcoming those with both HM Treasury and non-Treasury experience. We are fully committed to developing our team members and helping them grow.

**This post combines spending, policy and strategic leadership**. The branch is at the heart of the economics and finance ministry functions, setting direction for how we configure funding to exercise spending control, while also delivering economic growth and other government objectives, such as levelling up and Net Zero. The branch head leads for the Treasury on an interesting and wide transport brief, including Roads, Local and Regional Transport, including Buses and Light Rail, as well as Maritime and Freight.

**Key Accountabilities**:
This is a fun and varied role, with a mixture of policy development, economic thought leadership and strategy. You will experience significant engagement with Ministers, senior officials within HMT, across Whitehall and within local government, as well as with special advisers and No.10.

In post, you will need to develop an effective spending control and economic growth strategy across Roads, Local and Regional Transport including Buses and Light Rail, as well as contributing thought leadership to our overall approach to transport policy. You may also have to respond to funding requests that come in on Maritime and

Freight. You will lead engagement with other parts