Head of Investor Relations

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

- 404460

**Salary**:

- £125,000
- Up to £125,000 dependent on skills and experience
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Other

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Type of role**:

- Other

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- You will be based in our offices in the City of London

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
The post holder will be responsible for providing direction to (as well as line management and development of) a small team with overall responsibility for designing investor engagement strategy and leading research work, ensuring that outputs are highly relevant, rigorous and effectively communicated. The role will contribute to achieving the DMO’s strategic objectives of achieving value-for-money for the Exchequer over the long term, considering cost and risk. It will be a full-time role, which will involve close coordination with the DMO’s Executive Committee and other DMO teams.

**About the team**

The Policy and Markets area is responsible for providing advice to HM Treasury on debt, cash and balance sheet management policy and the implementation of the government’s financing programme, as well as other operational activities.

**Job description**:

- Designing and launching a programme of regular calls, meetings and forums, in consultation with the Executive Committee, to gather insights from a wide and balanced range of key stakeholders.
- Promoting the DMO’s product suite and financing programmes to the widest audience.
- Building strong relationships across the DMO to ensure effective coordination both on outreach, communication and intelligence gathering.
- Monitoring debates and narratives around fixed income markets, and particularly the gilt market, in coordination with other core teams.
- Synthesising emerging trends and narratives and alerting senior management effectively,
- Sponsoring and facilitating engagement with other stakeholders of relevance to the gilt market and DMO’s programme,
- Strategic oversight and planning of the team’s work while managing and prioritising resources.
- Leading on research projects to help inform the DMO’s initiatives and providing guidance to ensure the quality of analysis and the capability of the team.
- Contribution to the development of a relevant long-term research agenda in support of the DMO’s goal of being the centre of excellence in government debt management.
- Developing excellent working relationships with policy and analysis colleagues and other teams across the DMO and HMT.

**Person specification**:
Knowledge
- Excellent familiarity with the UK government’s debt management policy, fiscal and monetary policy, and the respective roles of the institutions involved.
- Strong network of fixed income investors and key stakeholders, ideally within the gilt market
- Excellent knowledge of mathematical and/or econometric techniques.
- In depth understanding of financial markets and fixed income.

Personal attributes and skills
- Naturally collaborative team player and able to develop and manage relationships and strategic interactions with key stakeholders at senior levels
- Highly motivated to lead a team, bringing a professional and enthusiastic approach to the work environment.
- Strong communication skills, and an ability to communicate complex and technical information/ideas verbally and in written form to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Analytically curious and with excellent attention to detail.
- Strong alignment with public sector goals and values

Sift Criteria
- ** Experience (Lead criteria)**: Significant experience of working in a senior position in a financial markets role, with a high degree of familiarity with the technical issues associated with fixed income markets (ideally the gilt market specifically) and a strategic understanding of technical and operational factors affecting market conditions and developments. Ideally, this will include having held direct responsibility for investment or treasury management functions in fixed income and money markets.
- ** Experience**: Significant experience in an analytical role in a financial institution, academia or in the public sector. A good record of producing high quality analysis or research topics related to sovereign bond markets.
- ** Technical**: An undergraduate degree (1st or 2:1) in a numerical discipline (e.g. maths, physics, engineering), economics or quantitative finance.
- ** Behavior Leadership** Experience of managing specialist staff, including managing performance and setting agendas and priorities. Excellent management and interpersonal skills with the capability to develop staff and maximise their potential. Strong teamwork experience with the ability to work at all levels

**Desirable**
- ** Technical**: A post