Senior Policy Adviser - Access to Finance - The Guardian : Job Details

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About the Team

Science, innovation and digital technology transform how we live and work. This brings new opportunities to unlock economic growth, improve productivity and create high skilled jobs. The UK is already a global leader, and with the right policy can go even further to unleash the benefits of frontier science and technology.

The Science, Technology and Access to Finance (STAF) team advises on how to make the most of this opportunity. We develop policy and oversee government spending on wider science Research & Development (R&D) and innovation policy, technology, access to finance and digital infrastructure. We also deliver wider spending control for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). These are top priorities for the Chancellor and Prime Minister, and require close work with teams across government, particularly in DSIT, Cabinet Office and No.10.

In delivering on this important agenda, the STAF team is responsible for Treasury policy on the government’s priority technologies. These technologies hold exciting potential for scientific breakthroughs, business innovation and public sector productivity which are likely to transform society over the next couple of years.

The team also leads on access to finance, including managing the Treasury’s relationship with the British Business Bank and delivering key policies announced by the Chancellor to unlock more investment into the UK’s most innovative companies.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Provide high-quality policy advice in a fast paced, uncertain, and complex environment.
• You will excel in providing clear advice with tangible, evidence-based recommendations.
• You will demonstrate good judgement in providing an appropriate level of detail and connections to wider government priorities, to enable effective, timely decision-making by Ministers and senior officials.
• Build positive relationships within and beyond their organisation, including with businesses and investors, and use these relationships to deliver impact.
• Prioritise and self-manage their workload, ensuring that important work is done on time and to a high-performance standard.
• Provide high-quality management to junior colleagues, setting clear direction and providing the right level of support and challenge to drive high performance and deliver team outcomes.

About You

You will analyse and accurately interpret data from various sources to support decisions, identifying risks and benefits to provide high quality advice and recommendations. Ensure competing priorities and interests reflect wider strategic priorities, adopting coherent government-wide policy and spending positions. Establish effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and communicate in a clear and honest way, delivering difficult messages with clarity and sensitivity when required and effectively manage competing priorities to deliver high priority work to both urgent and longer-term deadlines.

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

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