Strategy & Policy Adviser

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

- 355933**Salary**:

- £39,500 - £48,720-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMT - Strategy, Planning and Budget**Type of role**:

- Policy
- Strategy**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
- This post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road) or Darlington (Feethams House).About the job

**Job summary**:
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you

**Job description**:
**About the Group**

**Strategy Planning and Budget**

Strategy, Planning and Budget operates at the heart of the Treasury to develop the Department’s overall strategy and business plan, assess performance and risk, and help deliver its objectives through a large, flexible project team who work on ministerial priorities across the whole range of the department’s policy responsibilities. We co-ordinate the Chancellor’s annual Budget, the Finance Bill and the Treasury’s tax strategy, as well as the Treasury’s response to the COVID-19 Public Inquiry. SPB also promotes excellent policymaking across the department and houses the Darlington Leadership Team, which works to ensure the successful delivery of the Darlington Economic Campus (DEC).

**About the Team**

The Strategy, Planning & Projects Team (SPP) is a hard-working and energetic team, comprising around 50 roles focused on two major areas:

- ‘Strategy, Planning & Change’ (SPC - **where this role sits**), is the central strategy team for the department, responsible for advising the Treasury’s Executive Management Board (EMB), and Ministers, on departmental strategy, performance, and risk. We are responsible for the ‘One Treasury’ vision and strategy, providing strategic analysis and reporting on the department’s risk profile and delivery performance, delivering time-limited projects for EMB, and crafting how the department prioritises its resources to deliver for Ministers and the country.
- ‘Strategic Projects’, a flexible resource of approximately 40 staff that provides rapid support to the highest priority areas of Treasury work. Recent projects we've supported include: leading the economic and financial response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; supporting delivery of fiscal events; developing major growth / investment policy packages for the Chancellor; and supporting medium-term work to reform the Financial Services sector.

We are passionate about creating an environment where our people thrive, and on building an inclusive, friendly and successful team. We champion diversity and many team members work flexible working patterns. The team has staff based in each of our Darlington and London offices, and we work together to provide an encouraging and inclusive home in each location.

**About the Job**

We are recruiting for a high-profile role suitable for an ambitious SEO to work on a dynamic portfolio of work. You’ll have the opportunity to work closely with, and influence, senior stakeholders, to have visibility and impact over the breadth of the department’s work, and to be at the centre of decision-making on the Treasury’s future.

You’ll be joining a creative, welcoming team, which leads on or supports many of the department’s biggest priorities.

The team works on a range of strategic and corporate issues around departmental strategy, performance, and risk. You might be working on:

- Coordinating the process to agree the department’s top-level objectives and priorities for the year with EMB and Ministers;
- providing advice and analysis to senior officials on strategic risks facing the department, engaging with policy leads across the department and/or working with senior officials to help shape mitiga