International Policy Advisers

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

- 345323**Salary**:

- £31,745 - £38,565- National: £31,745 - £34,280; London: £35,720 - £38,565- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DSIT - Digital, Technologies and Telecoms - Data Policy**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

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

- 4Contents

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About the job

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- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Our priorities**

Optimise public R&D investment to support areas of relative UK strength and increase the level of private R&D to make our economy the most innovative in the world.

Promote a diverse research and innovation system that connects discovery to new companies, growth and jobs - including by delivering world-class physical and digital infrastructure (such as gigabit broadband), making the UK the best place to start and grow a technology business and developing and attracting top talent.

Put public services - including the NHS and schools - at the forefront of innovation, championing new ways of working and the development of in-house STEM capability to improve outcomes for people.

Strengthen international collaboration on science and technology in line with the Integrated Review, and ensure our researchers are able to continue to work with leading scientists in Europe and around the world.

Deliver legislative and regulatory reforms to drive competition and promote innovation, including the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill and our pro-innovation approach to regulating AI.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We have an inclusive culture which makes the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued 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 helps us be more innovative.

We offer flexible working benefits, employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:
The team are recruiting for four roles:
**Bilateral Engagement Policy Advisor**: responsible for establishing relationships with priority partners in order to influence our international approach on data policy and shape associated work-streams. This will involve building out our international objectives on data policy, establishing relationships with priority partners and seeking Ministerial and cross-Whitehall buy-in to promote our approach in international fora. There will likely be some required international travel.

**Data Bridges Policy Advisor**: lead on delivering new UK data bridge agreements, managing existing adequacy arrangements, and encouraging global data flows.

**Business Engagement Policy Adviser**: supporting the team's engagement with industry and academia to deliver our data flow priorities. They will develop strong relationships with external stakeholders (e.g. business/academia/civil society) and monitor outputs from industry and other stakeholders in order to develop UK policy (including through producing short discussion papers, hosting workshops etc.) in response to emerging trends/initiatives.

**Trusted Data Flows Policy Adviser**: the potholder will support the promotion of the ‘Trusted Government Access to Data held by Private Sector Entities’ principles to business. This includes but is not limited to arranging events for business stakeholder partners, input into multilateral fora and managing/building stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities include:
**Bilateral Engagement Policy Adviser**
- Support bilateral relationships with priority partners in order to influence our international approach on data policy.
- Coordinate international engagement across the Directorate, working with teams to track and prioritise engagement opportunities.
- Develop data portions of wider digital/tech partnerships as they are negotiated with priority countries.
- Engage on data issues with international stakeholders, both virtually and through occasional foreign travel.
- Oversee a package of work to gather, maintain and update various engagement coordination products.
- Maintain and develop effective working relationships with relevant other government departments and with officials responsible for data issues at key embassies.

**Data Bridges Policy Adviser**
- Synthesising research papers and analyses into a coherent set of decision points for Ministerial consideration.
- Working with lawyers and the policy team to test areas of contention within assessments.
- Commissioning externa