Senior Policy Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Department for International Trade

Department for International Trade
Department for International Trade
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £38,052 - £45,354
  • London: £41,553 £45,354 National: £38,052 £41,912
    Job grade:
  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • DIT
  • Trade Negotiations: Trade Policy A
    Type of role:
  • International Trade
  • Policy
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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Location

  • Darlington, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:


Bilateral Trade Relations (BTR), a directorate within the Department for International Trade, is responsible for opening markets and strengthening the UK's global trading relationships through bilateral Ministerial and government-to-government engagement.


As the UK seeks to develop closer trade and investment relationships with the rest of the world, deliver its new strategic approach to Africa, this is an exciting time to be working on trade policy in Africa.


You will prioritise your work by targeting barriers presenting the most value for the UK and lead a campaign approach focused on resolving barriers to the life sciences sector across a number of markets.


Job description:


This role offers significant opportunities to drive the development and delivery of trade policy in East and Southern Africa as part of BTR's Africa team.

Core responsibilities include progressing work on priority market access issues, driving the utilisation of DIT's digital market access service and the UK's new strategic approach to trade policy across East and Southern Africa.


Key activities and deliverables of the role include:

  • Working with DIT and FCDO colleagues at post to understand the markets, UK business interests, local Government interests and the tools available to HMG to overcome market access barriers;
  • Overseeing trade policy aspects of the UK's bilateral relationships in the region;
  • Preparing briefing, submissions and PQs for Ministers;
  • Embedding DIT's digital market access service in markets across the region;
  • Working closely with posts to develop action plans to overcome market access barriers;
  • Inputting bilateral trade policy priorities into multilateral fora and vice-versa;
  • Leading on the Life Sciences workstream addressing barriers in this sector across Africa; and
  • Managing the commissioning, delivery and actioning of external research in close collaboration with post.

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.


Person specification:


Essential Criteria

  • Scoping and delivering novel work
  • Working with stakeholders in different locations
  • Collecting and analysing evidence
  • Preparing written briefings and reports
  • Learning and development tailored to your role

Desirable Criteria

  • Some exposure to trade and investment and trade policy would be beneficial but not essential

Personal Attributes & Skills

  • Proactively drive novel and complex work with a focus on what benefits UK business;
  • Build productive relationships with DIT and OGD colleagues at post and in London;
  • Be able to think analytically to help identify priorities from a range of evidence and workstreams;
  • Take the initiative and deliver new work to a high quality, taking others with them;
  • Demonstrate leadership and resilience to drive a new trade policy agenda;
  • Manage multiple stakeholders and create links between multiple workstreams and interests to strengthen the UK's bilateral trade relationships; and
  • Be a team player who is collaborative and positive both with stakeholders and within BTR's Africa team.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Making Effective Decisions

Benefits:


  • 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%
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Selection process details:


  • This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.

Sift will take place week commencing 06/03/2023.

Interviews will take place week commencing 13/03/2023.

Please align your CV with previous skills and experience. Maximum of 2 A4 pages.

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