Strategy Advisor

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) oversees the domestic business environment, breaks down international barriers to trade and investment, and helps boost economic growth by ensuring the UK is a country where businesses can thrive. Climate change is driving the biggest and fastest global industrial transformation in a generation - a change that will impact the business environment and international trade for decades. We need to help ensure UK businesses are well-placed to take advantage of the commercial opportunities from the global green transition and that DBT's wider work is aligned with the Government's climate and environment policy ambitions. At the centre of the department sits the Global Futures Directorate - an internal strategy team and thinktank focused on driving positive change on long-term issues affecting the UK and global economy. We are recruiting a Green Strategy Advisor to join the Green Strategy Team, to support our work aligning the Department's business and trade policy with the Government's climate and environment goals. You will play a multi-functional role in the Green Strategy Team, including:

• Horizon scanning and strategy development - You will have a keen interest in climate and economic policy and pro-actively track the frontiers of thinking to help spot opportunities and risks to the UK, applying that to your work.
• Collaborating and influencing with internal and external stakeholders - You will help develop and maintain the team's network of contacts across the department, Whitehall and with experts outside government to shape the department's thinking and identify issues and opportunities to deliver our objectives.
• Supporting the delivery of DBT's green objectives - day to day work with policy teams to monitor and report delivery against the Department's objectives, identifying opportunities and risks for discussion at key governance Boards.
• Developing strategic communication on climate issues across Whitehall and externally - drafting and advising on briefings for Ministers and senior officials, preparing, checking and advising on correspondence, PQs, Freedom of Information requests, and responses to other ad-hoc requests to help deliver Ministerial communications and ensure DBT has a strong external narrative.