Policy Adviser

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

- 279600**Salary**:

- £31,120 - £33,085**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Trade and Opportunities - Trade and Investment Negotiations Services Directorate**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Our Mission**

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission
- We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.**Our Inclusive Environment**

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.
- We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.-
**Job description**:
The Mobility Team is recruiting an HEO policy advisor to support the team’s vital work on EU business travel. Since the UK and EU agreed the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the team has been working to ensure the agreement works for our stakeholders as they deal with the challenges and opportunities of new trading relationships with the EU, its Member States and countries around the world.

The Mobility Team sits within the Trade & Investment Negotiations (Services) (TINS) Directorate of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS.) It leads on facilitating travel for business and work between the UK and EU and has responsibility for developing policy and supporting negotiations for the UK’s free trade deals with other partners around the world. The ability of UK businesses, and firms that invest here, to move staff in and out of the country quickly and easily is crucial to their competitiveness. Services trade accounts for nearly 80% of the UK economy and our business stakeholders have frequently identified mobility as their highest priority within services trade policy.

This role could include engaging with businesses and trade associations as we assess how the TCA is working in practice, and engagement with EU Member States to resolve bilateral issues. This work is especially important as the team prepares for formal talks with the European Commission later this year, and potentially with EU Member States. You will be expected to lead areas of this work, identifying key stakeholder issues and potential solutions that we can raise with our European partners.

This is a chance to develop your understanding of the rules-based system that governs international trade and how mobility fits into it, while working in a challenging and fast-paced environment. Given the significance and profile of the team, we have consistently provided stretching work for HEOs, and in recent years numerous recent members of the team have gone on to enjoy well deserved promotions You may also have the opportunity to work on other areas of trade policy and negotiations, although that will depend on the needs and priorities of the wider team.

We are a friendly and inclusive team, and place a strong emphasis on championing team members and ensuring we are role models of continuous development. We also encourage all staff members to make a corporate contribution to the wider TINS directorate.

**Person specification**:

- Lead preparation for formal engagement with the European Commission/EU Member States on issues relating to business travel, working closely with interested teams across BEIS, legal and analysis colleagues, and other government departments.
- Engage directly with external stakeholders on their experiences of businesses travel in the EU, and gather evidence on how the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement is working in practice.
- Take a leading role in the future of EU and UK business travel - e.g. proactively explaining, reassuring and encouraging businesses to adapt to new trading relationships and working to develop proposals to improve the situation for businesses on th