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Four exciting new opportunities have opened up to work in the Market Distorting Practices & Economic Coercion Team at the Department for Business & Trade. We are recruiting for three roles working on economic coercion policy (two with a domestic focus and one with an international focus) and another role working on implementing our international engagement strategy. This latter role will also involve an element of project management within the team.
Addressing economic coercion and market distorting practices is a priority for the UK Government to ensure free and fair trade and protect our economic security, society, and UK businesses.
These are high-profile roles, with considerable Ministerial and international interest, that will provide ample opportunity for variety, development and stretch in developing and applying policy and strategy, as well as planning and implementation. The roles will also be equally rewarding, sitting at the heart of some of the most interesting geopolitical and economic challenges of our time, with potentially far-reaching real-world impacts.
This is a relatively new policy area, and the roles offer strong opportunities to identify new and innovative ways to address the policy challenges.
We strongly encourage applications from people with diverse skills, perspectives, and backgrounds to bring real strength to our team and the wider department.
When applying, candidates should specify which role they would be most interested in.
Job description
2x Domestic Policy Adviser Economic Coercion
The post holders will:
- Work collaboratively across Whitehall to develop and implement a programme of work to ensure that the UK has the right domestic tools to defend itself against acts of economic coercion.
- Evaluate policy according to a consistent framework, base lining against international comparators, assessing gaps in the UKs current regime, bringing together policy experts to propose creative/innovative but realistic options, and evaluate them to produce evidence-based recommendations.
- Work with analysts to develop a strong evidence base.
- Work with lawyers to ensure planned interventions are lawful.
- Manage domestic stakeholder and business engagement.
- Manage public/ministerial communications around our approach/strategy and Parliamentary engagement, enquiries, and briefing.
- Support senior managers and provide briefing advice where needed.
International Policy Adviser Economic Coercion
The post holder will:
- Collaborate with teams across government (including FCDO, Cabinet Office and posts) to develop and deliver international policy on economic coercion, including for high profile meetings of the G7, OECD (among others).
- Work strategically to influence international counterparts on economic coercion.
- Provide high quality briefing for seniors to support international engagements.
- Support and participate in engagement with international partners on economic coercion.
- Monitor and track upcoming international milestones for forward-planning purposes.
- Become an authority on the global landscape on economic coercion.
Strategy Adviser Economic Coercion and Market Distorting Practices
The post holder will:
- Work collaboratively across Whitehall and the HMG Diplomatic network to develop and implement the departments international strategy for MDPs and economic coercion. This will involve building strong relationships to ensure that there is effective join up and coordination on MDPs and Economic Coercion across HMG .
- Work effectively across the department to ensure that the teams strategic engagement priorities are reflected in wider departmental strategies.
- Engage with key likeminded and non-likeminded partners on Economic Coercion and MDPs through a range of bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral forums representing UK positions and priorities.
- Produce high-quality briefings and updates on MDPs and Economic Coercion for Ministers and senior officials. This will include feeding into speeches for Ministers, bilateral and multilateral briefings as well as internal meetings with Ministers on our policy programme.
- Provide an effective and efficient project management oversight function across the team. This will include: managing key PMO products for team; ensuring that team plans are kept up to date on a regular basis; co-coordinating the day-to-day briefing commissions for the team.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Knowledge and experience of trade policy.
- Excellent communication/drafting skills and ability to influence effectively.
- Excellent personal organisation skills (including experience of project management), and an ability to balance competing priorities.
- Comfortable working in uncertainty, with the ability to develop proposals at pace and within ambiguous contexts.
Desirable Criteria
- Knowledge and experience in economic security issues.
- Knowledge and experience of strategy development and implementation.
Personal Attributes & Skills
- Able to identify, evidence and analyse policy options with authority, drawing on others as appropriate.
- See the big picture, able to identify links and opportunities in a fast-moving policy area.
- Ability to form effective working relationships across DBT/Whitehall.
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Benefits
£10,274 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
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Selection process details
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.
To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
- A Personal Statement explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential criteria.
It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date though this is subject to change.
In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement only. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:
Complete the Assistance required section on the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.
Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
Candidate Support
You may want to join a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.
Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.
Further Information:
- A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.
- Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
- The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
- New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
- Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty. Any applicant who has details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
- A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
- Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Security and vetting
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is SC. All security clearances require you to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK.
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The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
Please note the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Lola Wilkie
- Email : Lola.Wilkie2@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dbtrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email: Resourcing@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints
