About the job

Job summary

About HM Treasury

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.  

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.  

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you! 

Job description

About the Group

Strategy, Planning and Budget

Strategy, Planning and Budget operates at the heart of the Treasury to develop the Department’s overall strategy and business plan, assess performance and risk, and help deliver its objectives with a large, flexible project team who work on ministerial priorities across the whole range of the department’s policy responsibilities. We also co-ordinate the Chancellor’s annual Budget, the Finance Bill and the Treasury’s tax strategy, as well as coordinate the Treasury’s responses to the COVID-19 Public Inquiry and provide support to ministers and officials who are Inquiry witnesses. SPB also promotes excellent policymaking across the department and houses the Darlington Leadership Team, which works to ensure the successful delivery of the Darlington Economic Campus (DEC). 

About the Team

Darlington Leadership Team (DLT)

The Darlington Leadership Team is a small team with big ambitions and a large and diverse network of volunteers that reaches across the whole of the Darlington Economic Campus. We are working to deliver the DEC vision; to embed the campus within Darlington and our wider North East community and to work collaboratively across the 9 departments that are co located here. This is a dynamic team, who work on a wide range of outreach activities, engaging with schools, universities, the private sector and local government and who are instrumental in changing the way we work, having an important influence not just at the DEC but in the civil service more broadly.  

You will be working directly to the team’s Deputy Director with line management responsibility for an engagement coordinator (HEO grade). You’ll also work closely with a range of colleagues from different government departments across the Campus to realise DEC’s vision and objectives (attached below).

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a strong communicator and networker with a talent for ‘joining the dots’ and delivering through others. As the Darlington Economic Campus develops, we expect this role to develop too and the post holder will have the opportunity to influence this.

About the Job  

The success of the DEC vision is a collective effort and is dependent on the engagement and partnership of three key audiences: everyone that works at HM Treasury, everyone that works at DEC, and our external partners (existing and future) including the local community, business, local authorities, universities, schools. This purpose of this role is to develop and deliver an engagement strategy for each of these groups that will take the Darlington Economic Campus even closer to delivering its vision.

Key Accountabilities for this role include:

Develop and deliver Engagement strategy for the three audiences detailed above (HM Treasury staff, DEC Staff and our external partners)

• Developing, delivering and evaluating the annual plan
• Securing and maintaining senior sponsorship
• Establishing a reporting framework
• Working across campus departments and HMT groups to identify and deliver opportunities to drive the vision

Identify and lead specific engagement activities as required

• Recruitment fairs and outreach activities
• Community engagement

 Line manage Engagement Co-ordinator

• Enable your direct line report to flourish

Stakeholder Engagement

• Coordinate and manage the DEC’s relationships with regional stakeholders
• Maintain and report on a stakeholder management system

Provide Internal Governance to the Campus

• Maintain and support the structures that help the Campus to work together as one. This includes convening and supporting a range of meetings with distinct audiences and interests including a senior leadership team, a cross-Campus coordination group made up of all 9 government departments and specific working groups looking at areas such as interaction with higher education.

Candidate Drop-In Session 
 
The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session for this role to give you greater insight about the role as well as the chance to learn more about HM Treasury and ask any questions you may have. If you would like to join us, then use the appropriate link below to join the call at the right time. 

Wednesday 24th July 2024 @ 13:00- 13:30 Join the meeting now

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact Ellie.Moir@hmtreasury.gov.uk.

Person specification

We are looking for the below skills, experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form. 

1. Working Together: Form effective partnerships and relationships with people both internally and externally, from a range of diverse backgrounds, sharing information, resources and support.
2. Seeing the Big Picture: Understand how your role fits with and supports organisational objectives. Recognise the wider Civil Service priorities and ensure work is in the national interest
3. Experience:

• Significant knowledge and experience of working within an engagement, coordination or communications field
• Good organisational and/or project management skills – we don’t require specific project management skills but an understanding and ability to think about how to manage and bring together multiple priorities will be important
• Good influencing skills: ability to work with and advise senior colleagues, make decisions about appropriate activities and offer constructive challenge where necessary

The lead criterion is: Working Together: 

If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.

Candidate Guidance Support Session

We will be running an overview of Success Profiles and the STAR approach including top tips for the application and interview process and an opportunity to ask general questions around our recruitment practices. Please note that this session is not role specific, so we will be unable to answer specific questions about roles we are advertising. If you would like to join us, please use the link below to join the call at the right time.

Thursday 18th July 2024 @ 12:30 - 13:15 Join the meeting now

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £52,960, HM Treasury contributes £14,299 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Recruitment Timeline 

Closing date: Sunday 4th August 2024

Shortlisting: W/c 5th August 2024

Interviews:  W/c 19th August 2024 

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline. 

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile. 

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

Eligibility Statement  

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information. 

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Counter Terrorist Check (CTC)   

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case by case basis once the advert closing date has passed. 

Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you.  Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.  

These short videos address common concerns and preconceptions which applicants may have about national security vetting.  If you have questions relating to security clearances, please contact HMTSecurityVetting@hmtreasury.gov.uk

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

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for 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.