Deputy Director – Growth Strategy Unit

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

Advertised working pattern:
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

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.

The Growth Strategy Unit is a new team in EGU, established earlier this year, tasked with leading HMT’s work on growth in support of the Chancellor, in partnership with No 10 including No 10 North.

It does this by developing the overall approach to boosting growth and living standards through supply side reform. It advises the Chancellor, Exchequer Secretary, EMB, as well as the PM, No10 including No 10 North, and the Cabinet Secretary on the drivers of the UK's economic performance, 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, No 10 including No10 North and beyond, with responsibility for specific growth policies. GSU seeks to ensure strategic and narrative coherence; and provides constructive challenge to wider policy development injecting 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. This currently includes work on economic dynamism.

It leads work on growth economics and analysis for HMT, working across a large, expert analytical community in EGU, Economics Group and beyond.

As head of the Growth Strategy Unit, you will shape and drive the UK’s growth agenda and economic strategy. You will work in partnership with No 10 including No 10 North, and the Cabinet Office, to deliver the PM and Chancellor’s growth agenda. You will also build and use key relationships across businesses, think tanks, academia, departments and the…