Senior Policy Advisor

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

- 257352**Salary**:

- £37,470 - £41,925**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- BEIS - Trade, International, the Union & Analysis - Trade and Investment Negotiations Services**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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Location
- Birmingham, 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 role and our team**

TINS (Trade and Investment Negotiations, Services) Directorate’s mission is to help UK service suppliers and investors to thrive in a changing environment. We create opportunities for businesses by ensuring that the UK’s trade and domestic regulatory frameworks work in tandem to deliver for services, investment, and UK professionals.

The directorate is currently implementing the Professional Qualifications Act and preparing to review the EU-derived Provision of Services Regulations. We are taking action to sanction Russian businesses benefiting from the UK’s services sector; implementing trade agreements with the EU and helping to ensure that UK businesses have access to new overseas market through new Free Trade Agreements.

It is not just businesses we help to thrive. TINS is a friendly and inclusive place to work. With empathetic leadership, everyone is encouraged to support the team and individuals to grow and develop.

We are looking for an enthusiastic new team member to help shape UK regulation in the services sector. You will help us determine what regulation we need and how we make it function effectively and efficiently for UK businesses and consumers.

**Person specification**:
**Key responsibilities**

You will have lead responsibility for shaping and delivering the TINS domestic strategy. Working within the TINS Business Engagement, Corporate Support and Strategy team, you will be managed by a Grade 7, who has responsibility for Domestic Strategy and Business engagement.

Being naturally curious, you will want to talk to stakeholders, interrogate the evidence base and build consensus on priorities for action. You will be responsible for tracking progress, identifying risks, and suggesting changes to keep TINS’ domestic regulation projects on course.

You will use your communication skills to make the case for changes which improve outcomes for service professionals and their clients. You will test ideas through formal and informal networks, before presenting your ideas and getting buy-in from our senior leadership team.

**Skills and experience**

This job will give you the opportunity to develop your skills in:

- Leadership and delivering through others;
- Using evidence to identify clear objectives and interventions that can make the UK service regulation more efficient, effective, and transparent for users; and
- Building successful relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders;
- Have a passion for trade, policy, strategy or project management.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:
BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.

Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.

An extensive rang