Exports Strategy Engagement Lead

£60,732 - £71,296

National Salary: £60,732 - £67,296
London: £64,732 - £71,296

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £60,732, Department for Business and Trade contributes £17,594 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• 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 employer contribution of 28.97%

The Department for Business, Science, Innovation, and Trade (BIST) is responsible for driving sustainable economic growth and connecting investment, trade, innovation and place to create opportunities for people and communities across the whole of the UK. The Department works closely with partners across government, devolved government, industry bodies, and businesses to deliver the UK's trade and economic priorities.

The Domestic and International Markets and Export (DIME) Group within BIST plays a vital role in advising, supporting, and promoting UK businesses to grow and export, delivering economic growth through our services and policy interventions across the UK and overseas.

The Exports Strategy team, within DIME, works closely with policy, ministerial, and delivery colleagues to translate complex policy into accessible and compelling messaging for a range of audiences, including businesses and trade associations. Through targeted engagement activity, the team builds and maintains relationships with key stakeholders across the UK and internationally, ensuring that BIST's work is informed by business insight and that stakeholders are equipped to benefit from government support. The team also contributes to cross-government communications, ensuring alignment and coherence in messaging on economic growth and trade.

By combining proactive stakeholder engagement with strategic communications, the team supports the Department in increasing awareness, understanding, and uptake of its services, ultimately contributing to the UK's economic growth, global competitiveness, and trade ambitions.

• Strategy: Design and implement an engagement strategy for the Exports Directorate.
• Intelligence gathering: Capture and relay key stakeholder sentiment and any potential concerns to the Head of Comms and Engagement, and wider DIME SLT.
• Relationship building: Establish and maintain a wide network of external stakeholders, relationship managing the strategic partners of the Exports Directorate.
• Project Management: Own and lead key projects that are critical for the delivery of effective engagement with Exports Strategy's stakeholders, working across the Department and cross-Whitehall where appropriate.
• Collaboration: Work collegiately across the Department to ensure external activity of Exports Strategy is aligned with other external facing teams in BIST such as Post, External Affairs, and the Business Engagement Unit.
• Leadership: Motivate colleagues and provide support to enable effective engagement across the Directorate.
• Act at all times in line with the Civil Service code, with BIST's performance and behavioural standards, and putting responsibilities as a UK Civil Servant at the forefront of everyday performance and behaviour.
• Undertake continuous personal development, including 100% compliance with Minimum standards and mandatory learning, office attendance, and the DBT learning academy to meet role-specific requirements but keep abreast of wider economic, political and other environmental factors. To champion learning, value diversity, respect colleagues, and drive delivery of DBT and HMG objectives at all times. Have full responsibility for driving personal performance
  conversations and leading team members where applicable.
• Participation in wider-BIST corporate activities and be an active and energetic member of the BIST community, both more widely and in the hub location where you are based and have a vested interest in the leadership and success of the organisation and teams more widely as well as your own team.
• Additional duties may also be required in line with business need, these can include but are not restricted to assisting with local or national events, accompanying
  customers or Ministers on visits domestically or overseas, and attending events as BIST ambassadors, upholding professional standards and embodying a positive experience of the department internally and externally.

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 22nd November 2026

489717

Grade 7

Permanent

International Trade
Other

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Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
• Please note - the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
• Candidates that do not quite meet the standard for this role may be offered a position at a lower grade.

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This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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• Name : Tiffany Burrows-Worlidge
• Email : tiffany.burrows@businessandtrade.gov.uk

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