Subsidy Control Analysis - London, United Kingdom - Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade

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- £53,560 - £63,481

National: £53,560 £60,118 London: £57,026 £63,481
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DBT
DG CMRR
Office for Product Safety & Standards
Type of role:
Analytical
Economist
Private Sector Development
Social Research
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Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed hours
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Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

Job summary:

The Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate is at the heart of the Government's growth agenda. What we do affects businesses, consumers and the overall economy.

Getting it right is therefore critically important and we pride ourselves on the quality of our analysis providing the basis for our policy advice and our project delivery.

The Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate in DBT is responsible for fostering competitive markets that maximise consumer welfare and business productivity.

The Directorate aims to be evidence-driven, engaged, collaborative, innovative and influential. We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.

The Directorate has four teams:
Competition Policy; Consumer Policy, Subsidy Control; and Analysis, Corporate Support and Digital Markets, where this role sits.

The Analysis team consists of c.10 analysts, leading the Directorate's research, appraisal and evaluation work and ensuring the analytical underpinning of all the Directorate's work is robust.

We work with policy teams to provide high-quality and insightful analysis to support competition policy, consumer policy and subsidy control.

Analysis supports all stages of policy development from early problem identification to policy evaluation.

The team works closely with other areas of DBT including the Central Analysis Team and the Department's Chief Analyst and with other government departments including No 10, HMT and DSIT.

It also has good links with key stakeholders such as the CMA, consumer organisations such as Citizens Advice and Which?, and academia.

Job description:

The UK's subsidy control regime launched in January 2023.

The regime enables UK public authorities, including devolved administrations and local authorities, to give subsidies that are tailored to their local needs, and that drive economic growth, while minimising distortion to UK competition and protecting our international obligations.

The subsidy control policy team is at the heart of the regime; it delivered the Subsidy Control Act 2022 and actively monitors the regime's effectiveness, while engaging with public authorities to increase awareness of their obligations and new freedoms.

Our analysis underpinned the creation of the regime, informing the design of its core principles and rules as well as the creation of nine first-of-a-kind streamlined route subsidy schemes.

You will lead on subsidy control analysis, ensuring subsidy control policy continues to be underpinned by robust evidence.

Amongst other responsibilities, your core deliverable is managing the production of DBT's subsidy control regime monitoring and evaluation report, which we expect to publish in the next c.12 months.

You are likely to also get involved in wider analysis projects relating to competition and consumer protection.

Responsibilities include:

Line and/or task management of one/several of the 4+ junior economists within the team, setting direction and supporting their development
Managing the monitoring and evaluation of the subsidy control regime, which will likely include procuring external research, managing the contractor relationship and delivering a public report evaluating the first c.18 months of the regime's operation
Provide ad hoc analytical leadership and support to the subsidy control policy team, including supporting other DBT policy teams with drafting their principles assessments the economic and policy assessment that must be completed to demonstrate that a subsidy or scheme is consistent with the subsidy control principles
Managing our analytical relationship with the CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit, which has a statutory requirement to monitor and evaluate the competition and investment impacts of the regime
Identifying opportunities for research to build the evidence base; developing and leading research projects where valuable
Leading workstream planning for the analysis of subsidy control to ensure analysis is delivered to time and to a high standard
Upskilling colleagues across government on drafting principles assessments (see above), as well as the economic and competition aspects of the subsidy control regime
Providing analytical support and challenge as appropriate on the