Policy Adviser – Emerging Markets Engagement

HM Treasury; London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

An established government entity seeks a dynamic Policy Adviser to lead engagement with major emerging markets. This pivotal role involves shaping economic strategies, advising ministers, and enhancing the UK's international competitiveness. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a knack for stakeholder management, and a passion for public policy. Join a collaborative team dedicated to making a meaningful impact on the UK's economic landscape. With opportunities for professional growth and a commitment to diversity, this position offers a chance to influence key international relationships and drive sustainable economic growth.

Benefits

Civil Service Pension

25 Days Annual Leave

Flexible Working Patterns

Onsite Restaurant

Access to Cycle-to-Work Scheme

Retail Discounts

Parental Leave Package

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of economic principles and international relations.
• Experience in policy development and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead on UK’s economic relationships with emerging markets like India and Brazil.
• Advise ministers on international economic strategy and policy.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Economic Analysis

Policy Development

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Economics or Related Field

Job description

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

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 policy making 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

International Group

Do you want to advise ministers on promoting and protecting the UK’s economy and its competitiveness internationally in a fast-changing environment? If so, read on!

International Group provides opportunities to work on areas including - spending control on international development, trade policy, climate change, health, cooperation on Ukraine, economic security, financial sanctions and tackling illicit finance. We also manage economic relationships with Europe, US, China and other advanced economies and emerging markets.

We build relationships with external and international partners and represent the UK in a range of international groupings and institutions, including the G7, the G20, the International Monetary Fundand at some of the Multilateral Development Banks. We also analyse international comparisons and the wider global economic context, including for fiscal events. Although international travel is an important part of some roles, it is not required for every role in the group and will be specified if required.

About The Team

International Economic Partnerships (IEP) Team

IEP leads on HMT’s bilateral economic relationships with priority international partners. We promote and protect HMT's interests internationally, working to support the UK Growth Mission and ensure UK influence on the global economic landscape through our major bilateral relationships. We work closely with stakeholders across Government and international counterparts. We deliver our work through targeted outreach, strategy development, major structured engagement such as Economic and Financial Dialogues, and Ministerial participation at G7, G20, and IMF events.

The Team Is Split Into Two Units:

The Americas and Emerging Markets Unit leads on HMT’s bilateral economic relationships with North America (US, Canada, Mexico); key major emerging markets (India, Brazil, South Africa, the Gulf).

The Europe and Asia-Pacific Unit leads on the UK’s bilateral economic relationships with key economies in Europe (inc. France, Germany, Italy and others) and Asia-Pacific (inc. Japan, South Korea, Australia and others).

IEP is committed to diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, and ensuring that everyone is provided with rewarding and stretching roles in which they feel empowered and supported. We are keen to encourage applications from candidates with a diverse set of backgrounds and range of experience. The team is spread across London and Darlington, and works closely with Foreign Office posts around the world.

About The Job

Policy Adviser, Emerging Markets Engagement

This is an exciting and stretching role, leading on the UK’s economic relationship with major emerging markets, covering India, Brazil, South Africa, and the Gulf – some of our largest trading partners. The branch is responsible for developing HMT’s strategy for these countries and delivering on those, including through flagship ministerial and senior official engagements. We work closely with teams around Government, global Embassies and High Commissions, and foreign counterparts. Now is a particularly fascinating time to work on our emerging markets relationships, for instance with South Africa holding the G20 Presidency.

The post holder will need to have a good grasp of economics (but does not need to be an economist). You will have to balance multiple projects simultaneously, work at pace with a range of partners, see how your work connects to the Treasury’s wider domestic and international objectives, and represent the UK externally. There may be opportunities for travel.

You Will Lead On The Bilateral Relationship, Policy, Strategy, And Engagement For The UK’s Highest Priority Emerging Market Partners. Responsibilities Include:

• Shape and drive HMT’s engagement and policy strategy for Emerging Markets (India, the Gulf, Brazil, and South Africa). You will work across HMT and wider Government on economic strategy, identifying new and creative ways to maximise HMT’s influence in those countries and beyond, ensuring support for the Growth Mission.
• Deliver briefing (oral/written) for senior official and Ministerial engagement. This includes working country-to-country (e.g. through the UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue, the UK’s flagship economic relationship dialogue with India) and through wider multilateral fora (e.g. G20, IMF). Use these opportunities to maximise impact of HMG’s international economic objectives.
• Support senior thinking on wider international strategy. Understand how we fit into the bigger international picture. Advise Ministers on policy issues, and drive strategic aims through delivering high quality Chancellor trips, events, and engagement. Prioritise to ensure delivery of core priorities while balancing reactive work on lower priority countries in portfolio.
• Represent HMT externally to international partners. Identify priorities for the UK economy, providing advice to the Chancellor, and deliver positive policy outcomes through our relationship with key emerging market partners.
• Lead on political and economic reporting for Ministers and senior officials on developments in country portfolio, maintaining detailed policy knowledge on political, economic, and policy trends across country portfolio to inform analysis and advice.
  
  

Candidate Drop-In Session – Microsoft Teams

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 link below to join the call at the right time.

Wednesday 7th May 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:00 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 [e-mail]

You Will Lead On The Bilateral Relationship, Policy, Strategy, And Engagement For The UK’s Highest Priority Emerging Market Partners. Responsibilities Include:

• Shape and drive HMT’s engagement and policy strategy for Emerging Markets (India, the Gulf, Brazil, and South Africa). You will work across HMT and wider Government on economic strategy, identifying new and creative ways to maximise HMT’s influence in those countries and beyond, ensuring support for the Growth Mission.
• Deliver briefing (oral/written) for senior official and Ministerial engagement. This includes working country-to-country (e.g. through the UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue, the UK’s flagship economic relationship dialogue with India) and through wider multilateral fora (e.g. G20, IMF). Use these opportunities to maximise impact of HMG’s international economic objectives.
• Support senior thinking on wider international strategy. Understand how we fit into the bigger international picture. Advise Ministers on policy issues, and drive strategic aims through delivering high quality Chancellor trips, events, and engagement. Prioritise to ensure delivery of core priorities while balancing reactive work on lower priority countries in portfolio.
• Represent HMT externally to international partners. Identify priorities for the UK economy, providing advice to the Chancellor, and deliver positive policy outcomes through our relationship with key emerging market partners.
• Lead on political and economic reporting for Ministers and senior officials on developments in country portfolio, maintaining detailed policy knowledge on political, economic, and policy trends across country portfolio to inform analysis and advice.
  
  

Candidate Drop-In Session – Microsoft Teams

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 link below to join the call at the right time.

Wednesday 7th May 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:00 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 [e-mail]

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.

• Working Together – Ability to bring a diverse range of stakeholders together, and work through differing views, to push forward team objectives and deliver on portfolio strategy and priorities.
• Delivering at Pace – Be able to manage competing priorities to ensure fast-moving timelines are adhered to on higher priority work whilst still meeting reactive needs of lower priority tasks.
• Seeing the Big Picture – Understand the strategic drivers for your area of work and how they support the organisation’s objectives, particularly on priority areas. Proactively spot opportunities to maximise impact of work and ensure these feeds into management thinking and prioritisation.
  
  

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 – Microsoft Teams

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 1st May 2025 @ 12:30 - 13:15 Join the meeting now

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
  
  

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture
  
  

Alongside your salary of £41,630, HM Treasury contributes £12,060 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• 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)
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave package.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28%
• Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
• Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests and diversity
  
  

Flexible Working Arrangements

HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they can enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; part-time, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees the flexibility to adjust their working patterns throughout the week which is subject to operational needs and line management approval.

At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff can realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites - Darlington, London, and Norwich, and along with the rest of the Civil Service, has an expectation of a minimum of 60% attendance in the office, along with working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.

The office working expectation is linked to the location of the role. If you apply to a post in a single location, then you will not be able to meet this expectation at any of our other sites or move your role to another location.

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: Wednesday 14th May 2025
• Shortlisting: from 15th May 2025
• Interviews: w/c 9 June 2025
  
  

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.

Reserve Lists

You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a post immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be approached for roles in merit order according to the first preferred location stated on your application form.

Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer. We would still encourage you to apply for other HM Treasury opportunities that you are interested in. If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or you are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Those on the reserve list may also be approached for similar roles at a lower grade. If you are offered a role at a lower grade and choose to decline, you can remain on the reserve list.

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 Security Check (SC)

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, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, 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 [e-mail]

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

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

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 security 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.

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 security 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

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : Meenal Joshi
• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

Complaints Process: Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email at: [e-mail]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

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