About the job

Job summary

This is a new role leading the central international strategy and delivery team. This will include setting up brand new functions including assessing and reporting on trade policy trends globally and ensuring that these are reflected in the Department's bilateral and policy approaches. ​

There will be a strong initial focus for this role in setting up the team and priorities will include: ​

• Supporting the change management process ​
• Clearly defining and growing this team's role, influencing and making an impact across the Directorate and Department

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Leading and managing the team through significant change​
• Overall global strategy for engagement on key policy areas across DBT ​
• Driving delivery and DBT input into DBT priority global or intra-regional Cross-Whitehall initiatives​
• Connectivity across DBT and international trade policy, market access and implementation specifically​
• Implementation and market access policy and strategy – including driving new initiatives and ways of working across Directorate​
• Overall Directorate and Cross-Whitehall Governance ​

Person specification

Essential Criteria​

• An inspiring, inclusive and engaged leader, able to create a positive working environment where people feel motivated and engaged to deliver high quality outputs at pace​
• Proven success of building teams, developing capability and creating a strong, supportive and high-performance culture. Ability to create and use networks to collaborate and drive organisational outcomes​
• Strong strategic thinking with high intellectual energy and demonstrable experience of delivering evidence-based policy to challenging deadlines​
• Finely tuned judgement with highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills, and a proven ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders​

​Desirable Criteria​

• Experience of working in international policy environment ideally grounded in the trade or economic growth space​

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Please follow the online instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply for this role.  Applications must be submitted no later than 23:55 on 01/04/24. You will be asked to upload the two documents outlined below. It is essential you add your full name to both documents:​

1. A CV setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role.  Please provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years.​
2. A Supporting Statement of around two pages of A4, providing examples of how your experience meets the essential criteria.​

Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. ​

If you encounter any issues or are unable to apply online please contact SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk  in the first instance​.​ For further information please see the candidate pack attached.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.