Deputy Negotiations Lead - London, United Kingdom - Department for International Trade

Department for International Trade

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3 weeks ago

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- £38,052 - £45,354

National: £38,052 £41,912 London: £41,553 £45,354
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DIT
Trade Negotiations: Trade Policy B
Type of role:
International Trade
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Job summary:

This is a tremendously exciting time to work in DBT's Trade Negotiations Group.

We drive forward the UK's international trade policy, which is an important enabler for growth, and at the heart of the UK's relationship with global trading partners.

The Digital Trade and Telecoms team is at the cutting edge of that agenda.

As the global economy increasingly shifts towards digital, goods, services and information (including data) are moving between countries more frequently, and easily, than ever before.

Firms selling goods or providing services digitally have taken local and national markets to a global scale.

The telecommunications sector, which includes mobile, landline, satellite, and internet technologies, provides the infrastructure that enables digital trade and is a major sector for trade and investment in its own right.

This role sits within our telecommunications team working to deliver for the sector and for all businesses and consumers in our trade negotiations.

Our vision is a world in which telecommunications markets are competitive, liberalised, and well-regulated, underpinned by trade agreements.

We do this by:

Negotiating modern telecoms provisions in Free Trade Agreements that support UK businesses and consumers.
Ensuring that services, digital, and investment provisions in our FTAs deliver market access and facilitate telecommunications trade and investment.
Working with forwardleaning partners in the World Trade Organization.
Pioneering innovative solutions to telecoms trade through UK thought leadership, engaging with business and wider communications.
Working with wider DBT teams to ensure that we use all our trade levers to promote telecommunications trade and investment, including by ensuring effective FTA implementation and by identifying work to remove market access barriers.

We also provide cross-cutting support to the digital trade team including by leading on selected areas of digital trade policy.

The postholder will work closely with a network of contacts within DBT, across Whitehall and in industry, to drive this agenda forward.

This is a fast-moving area and the postholders will be expected to flex their work to deliver against departmental priorities.

Job description:

The post holder will work with the G7 Negotiations Lead to deliver telecommunications negotiations, and telecommunications and digital policy:

Leading on aspects of telecommunications negotiations in a portfolio of Free Trade Agreements, acting as deputy chapter lead.
Responsibility for UK trade policy on telecommunications. Supported by your team, you will develop UK policy positions and facilitate their deployment in all ongoing FTA negotiations.
Providing crosscutting policy support, which may include elements of digital trade policy and/or multilateral telecommunications trade policy, supporting our work at the WTO.
Managing a complex and diverse stakeholder network, including industry and government departments and taking account of views in policy development.
Advising and briefing senior officials and ministers on policy issues related to telecommunications and digital trade policy.

Hybrid Working
Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average.

If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

For this role, the Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. Please note we are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.

Person specification:

Essential Criteria

Proven ability to lead delivery of work programmes, taking responsibility for setting and delivering work goals and timelines.
Can effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders to secure desired outcomes.
Effective communicator, confident working with different audiences and to articulate complex information clearly and concisely.
Experience delivering against multiple priorities in a fastpaced and challenging working environment.
Confidence working with complex and technical information.
Strategic awareness with capability to understand and respond to wider dr