Policy Advisor – Regulation, Competition and Markets

£44,600 - £50,906

London £47,600 - £50,906 / National £44,600 - £47,906. If the successful candidate is a current Civil Servant joining on level transfer, HM Treasury will honour their current substantive salary if higher. For more information on pay, please refer to the guidance at https://hmtreasury.pagetiger.com/cjbibw.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £44,600, HM Treasury contributes £12,920 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).

• Generous Annual Leave - 25 days (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus public holidays and the King's birthday.
• Outstanding Pension Scheme - Defined Benefit pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Parental Leave Packages - Including 6 months' occupational pay for maternity/adoption, shared parental leave options.
• Flexible & Hybrid Working - Options include part-time, job-share, compressed hours, flexitime, and hybrid working (where business needs allow).
• Advance Schemes & Discounts - Rental deposit, cycle-to-work, SmartTech, season ticket loans, and access to HM Treasury's benefits portal for a wide range of discount codes.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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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Working at HM Treasury puts you at the heart of government, making a difference to the UK economy and ultimately to people's lives right across the UK.

Jobs at the Treasury are fast-paced, fun and can offer unparalleled perspective - not least the opportunity to advise Ministers on the decisions which directly determine the UK's prosperity. Deep in our DNA is a commitment to empowering our people: maximising individual and collective impact, with interesting work no matter your role or seniority.

Day-to-day you could be supporting Ministers to decide the right level of a specific tax or line of government spending; helping maintain the stability of financial markets; analysing the long-term trends impacting the future of the economy; or enabling this work as part of our vital corporate functions.

We are a high-performing department and proud to have outstanding staff from a wide range of backgrounds. We are also a friendly, inclusive and sociable workplace that prides itself on fostering great team spirit. Our two largest offices are 1 Horse Guards Road in London, opposite St James' Park, and the Darlington Economic Campus, which also contains eight other departments. We work seamlessly across all our sites, including Norwich, Birmingham and Leeds, as one Treasury.

We are both a 1,000-year-old institution and dynamic, forward-looking economics and finance ministry, with a strong direction set by our organisational strategy, the Future Treasury Vision. The 21st century offers huge opportunities and poses new challenges for the UK. Working at the Treasury is your chance to help the country chart the right course.

We are recruiting for two policy advisor roles across the Regulation, Competition and Markets team.

Key accountabilities include:

• Lead policy development and analysis on competition issues in digital markets, including monitoring emerging market trends, assessing regulatory interventions, and working with cross-government teams to support policy objectives in digital markets.
• Support the department's work on procurement and competition policy by providing analysis, coordinating stakeholder engagement, and contributing to cross-government initiatives that promote competitive and well-functioning public procurement markets.
• Support the team's G7 economist on influencing research and developing a long term view for how competition policy supports growth and how to ensure our competition work is evidence based.
• Building effective relationships within HMT and with departments and work with them and with other partners (regulators, business) to develop new policy proposals, for example, how to boost competition in specific sectors of the economy, and how to define and tackle excess price gouging.
• Advising and briefing senior officials, Special Advisors and ministers on competition issues, in writing and verbally, including to support them with No10 and external stakeholder engagement.
• You are also likely to support with the team's regulatory strategy work depending on how new ministers' priorities develop, which may include leading policy projects to support reform, such as looking at regulator simplification, or helping to advise on write rounds on regulation to ensure that new regulation supports the governments' strategic approach to regulation.
• Play a role in building and role modelling a positive, appreciative, and productive culture to make the team a great place to work.
• You will be expected to work flexibly across the team, touching upon a wide range of live competition and regulation policy issues.

Key accountabilities include:

Work across HMT and with partners to develop policy proposals which contribute to the target to cut the administrative cost of regulation by 25% (£5.6bn) by the end of the Parliament, and deliver on wider economic growth priorities, such as unlocking innovation or rewiring the state.

• Advise and brief senior officials, ministers, SpAds and No.10 on key regulatory issues, and be the coordinating lead where appropriate. Recent examples that the previous postholder has taken the lead on include coordinating the cross-government response to a Public Accounts Committee report and shaping the outcomes of a Small Business Regulatory Taskforce.
• Build out a strategy for how the team engages externally with OGDs, regulators, industry, think tanks, academics and consumer groups to maintain a strategic view on the role of regulation in the economy and opportunities for reform.
• Help ensure that, as a central team on regulatory issues, the team communicates its strategy and plans across HMT and Whitehall, supporting a joined up strategic approach. This will require organising the team around central commissioning processes.

Permanent

Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

This post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road) or Darlington (Feethams House).

This role can be based in London or in the Treasury's Darlington Economic Campus.

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This role will sit within the teams competition branch, however, the postholder will be expected to work flexibly across the team's priorities, touching upon a wide range of policy areas across competition and regulation. This role is an exciting opportunity to shape the way we deliver on the government's competition and regulatory reform ambitions, working closely with HMT Ministers and senior officials across government and at the CMA.

You will focus on key high profile fast evolving competition strategy and policy issues, shaping and driving work to reflect the new Chancellor's refreshed priorities and direction and forging a shared approach across government; and get firsthand experience of working with a regulator.

We are a relatively small (16 staff) and nimble team, who thrive on working flexibly and creatively so that everyone gets the most out of their roles and to support everyone's work-life balance, so you should be happy working collaboratively with a tight-knit team, who can quickly adjust to new priorities; you will likely also work flexibly on other priorities such as regulatory reform, depending on ministers' priorities.

The role will require big picture thinking, ability to translate strategic vision into pragmatic policy solutions and being comfortable working with economic policy and economic concepts. Key to success will be building strong and productive working relationships inside and outside government. You will be expected to develop in-depth knowledge of aspects of competition policy and the regulatory environment and to use this to generate and respond to ideas to use competition policy as a lever for growth and better consumer outcomes, and to improve the way that government regulates.

We're looking for a friendly, highly motivated self-starter, who can draw on a wide network and apply their insight and knowledge to drive progress in a fast-moving policy area with credibility and impact.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact Cameron Misson (cameron.misson@hmtreasury.gov.uk).

This role presents an exciting opportunity to shape the next phase of the government's regulation agenda, including looking ahead to the Spending Review and as the new Better Regulation Executive (BRE), announced at Budget, is established. The role stream offers regular exposure to the HMT political team and senior officials across government. The postholder will be expected to work flexibly across the team and touch upon a wide range of policy areas, exercising subject matter and general project management leadership skills where appropriate, to drive action across HMT and wider government.

Key to success will be an ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively at pace. The postholder will also be expected to build strong and productive working relationships inside and outside of government and take an entrepreneurial approach to translate strategic thinking into pragmatic policy and delivery solutions that match Ministers' ambitions and provide good value for money.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact Daniel Gaffney (daniel.gaffney@hmtreasury.gov.uk).

• Name : Cameron Misson
• Email : cameron.misson@hmtreasury.gov.uk

• Email : hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

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