Business Engagement Adviser

HM Treasury; North East; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Flexible working patterns

Pension scheme (28% employer)

Cycle-to-work salary sacrifice

Season ticket advances

Staff networks

Job summary

HM Treasury is seeking a Business Engagement Adviser in Darlington (Feethams House) on a permanent basis. The role supports flexible working hours and offers full-time, part-time or job-share arrangements, with a salary of £36,130–£41,074.

The post focuses on building relationships with UK businesses and organisations, delivering high-profile events, and advising Ministers and senior officials on stakeholder engagement and public-private collaboration. Flexible working patterns are available.

Responsibilities

• Design stakeholder engagement for Ministers, ensuring meaningful engagement between business and HM Treasury.
• Managing and building relationships with businesses, civil society, and trade unions.
• Executing set-piece events where business engagement is the core focus.
• Supporting strategic partnerships, including co-design of policy initiatives with external stakeholders.
• Providing advice to Ministers, Special Advisers and senior officials on opportunities for stakeholder engagement.

Job description

Business Engagement Adviser

• Salary: National: £36,130 - £41,074. 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)

Do you want a fast-paced role at the heart of government, influencing Ministers and shaping engagement with some of the UK's most important businesses and organisations? Do you thrive on building relationships, delivering high-profile events, and working with senior stakeholders? If so, read on. This could be the role for you!

About the Team

The Business, Trade, and Culture team is a flexible and friendly team of around 20 staff that sits across HMT’s economics ministry functions (promoting sustainable economic growth), and its finance ministry functions (spending control for government departments). It manages the department’s relationships with business and ensures that public money is spent wisely and in support of the government’s objectives. The team is responsible for:

• HMT’s business engagement strategy and partnership work
• Spending and strategy for the Department for Business and Trade and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Supporting growth across the advanced manufacturing sector and for small businesses
• Inward investment policy

HMT values business engagement and partnership work as an integral part of policy development. As such, the Enterprise and Growth Unit has a team of 6 FTE dedicated to its support and facilitation.

About the Job

This is a varied, fast paced, and stretching role with significant exposure to Special Advisers, Ministers, No.10, and senior stakeholders across business, HMT, and wider government. Key responsibilities will include:

The key responsibilities of the post-holder will be:

• Designing and executing stakeholder engagement for Ministers: ensuring meaningful engagement between business and HMT.
• Managing and building personal relationships with businesses, civil society, and trade unions – including HMT’s relationship with business representative organisations.
• Executing set-piece events where business engagement is the core focus.
• Supporting strategic partnerships, including efforts in HMT to co-design policy initiatives with external stakeholders.
• Providing advice to Ministers, Special Advisers, and senior officials on opportunities for stakeholder engagement and public‑private collaboration.

About You

We want you to have the ability to build effective relationships and work collaboratively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders as well as communicating effectively with senior leaders and break down complicated information. We also want you to manage a busy workload, meet short-term deadlines, and work well under pressure and in a changing environment.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity