Policy Adviser - Growth Strategy

Location: Ash Green

Policy Adviser - Policy Adviser Growth Strategy Salary:
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. Contract Type:
Permanent Working Pattern:
This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.

Location:

Darlington (Feethams House) only Do you want a fast paced, dynamic and stretching role at the heart of the Government’s growth strategy. If so, this could be the ideal role for you? About the Team The Growth Strategy Unit (GSU) is a new team in the Enterprise & Growth Unit, tasked with leading the Government’s growth strategy. It does this by developing the Government’s overall approach to boosting growth and living standards through supply side reform.

It advises the Chancellor, Exchequer Secretary, and senior officials on the drivers of the UK's economic underperformance, the sufficiency of our existing strategy, and opportunities to go further – including navigating fiscal and wider trade-offs. It works in close partnership with teams across HMT and beyond with responsibility for specific growth policies. GSU seeks to ensure strategic and narrative coherence;

and acts as the ‘growth conscience’ of HMT and the Government, providing constructive challenge, creativity and alternative ideas. It leads external engagement on growth, including with economic commentators, think tanks and academics. This engagement is strategic, and two-way: hearing stakeholders’ views, whilst also proactively and confidently setting out the Government’s strategy and responding to challenges. It undertakes strategic growth projects on specific priority areas – for example, where these are crosscutting, or require a new perspective.

It leads work on growth economics and analysis for HMT, working across a large, expert analytical community in EGU, Economics Group and beyond. This is an exciting time to join GSU, as the team expands – you would be a good fit if you enjoy working across teams to deliver one of HMG’s top priorities. About the Job Economic growth is the Government’s key priority, and the Growth Strategy Unit (GSU) plays a central role in shaping the Government’s growth agenda and delivering on key growth moments and fiscal events.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working at pace, brings curiosity and fresh thinking to complex problems, and is comfortable moving between strategy, delivery and coordination as priorities shift. The role will provide opportunities to work closely with colleagues across HMT and other departments, engage with external experts, and contribute to a high-profile and fast-moving agenda. The postholder will have regular contact with senior officials and Ministers and will be expected to work flexibly across the full range of GSU’s work responding to changing priorities as they arise.

The postholder will:
Growth Strategy
· Contribute to advice on the Government’s growth strategy and priority growth areas, working with senior colleagues to develop and test policy ideas.
· Work with colleagues across HMT and Whitehall to design and advocate for innovative, novel and impactful policy solutions in distinct growth priority areas.
· Conduct independent research on growth policies and keep up to date on the evolving policy debates. Priority Projects
· Lead and support priority projects that advance the Government’s growth objectives, establishing clear plans, milestones and governance, identifying risks and dependencies, and working with colleagues across HMT and Whitehall to deliver ambitious outcomes.
· Develop high-quality analysis, advice, briefings and recommendations to…