Policy Adviser - Business and Trade Spending

The Business, Trade and Culture Team is a friendly team with a varied and high-profile remit, responsible for spending and strategy for the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). There is a strong and supportive team culture that offers the successful candidate the opportunity to build networks across wider work areas. The Business and Trade Spending and Strategy branch works across the Treasury on a broad range of the government's business and trade policy issues. This includes support for exporters, promoting inward investment and the Post Office., This is an exciting role that will see the successful candidate work across a varied and politically important set of issues to contribute to setting the strategic direction for DBT spending, leading the team's work to support DBT to provide full and fair redress to postmasters at pace. You will work with senior DBT, Treasury ministers, No.10 and Special Advisers on a regular basis.,

• Supporting the development of the strategy for business and trade spending and setting of an appropriate funding settlement for the department at the Spending Review.


• Develop expertise to support the delivery of ministerial priorities for the department, in particular leading work to support DBT to provide full and fair financial redress to victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.


• Scrutinise DBT's day-to-day spending to ensure that all spending is in line with government priorities and delivers value for money outcomes.


• Collaborate across the DBT spending team, EGU and wider HMT to support cross cutting business and trade packages for fiscal events.


Within this remit, there is scope to tailor the role to the individual, including any specific areas of interest, career goals and requirements relating to work hours or flexible working. Areas of responsibility will also evolve over time, in line with the team and departmental priorities.

You don't need to be a policy professional or have any specific qualifications to apply for this role. We are looking for people who have the right set of skills for the role, who demonstrate the values of our organisation, and who are motivated to come and work with us on a range of issues that are at the heart of how we spend money and deliver public services.


• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month


• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)


• Generous parental and adoption leave packages


• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%


• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances


• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity