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Assistant Director, Case Policy in Trade Disputes

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 07 Awst 2024
Cyflog: £64,432 i £74,825 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: National: £64,432 - £73,014 London: £67,794 - £74,825
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 20 Awst 2024
Lleoliad: Edinburgh
Cwmni: Government Recruitment Service
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 364431/5

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This role sits within the Trade Disputes team which is part of Global Trade and Delivery directorate within Economic Security and Trade Relations Directorate General. A key priority for the directorate is to advance and defend the rules-based international trade order and the UK’s industrial/business, economic, geostrategic and geopolitical stakes within it. This role is central to that.

Our ethos and work

Ours is a high-performing, diverse, and collaborative team. We value and celebrate difference; encourage constructive challenge, promote individual wellbeing and invest in the career progression of all our colleagues.

Trade disputes are worth billions of pounds to the UK economy, can affect the full breadth of the UK’s domestic and international trade interests, are politically sensitive and regularly make headlines. The team’s recent successes include reaching a settlement with the EU over the Contract for Difference dispute, securing an end to the US (Section 232) tariffs on Steel and Aluminium and securing the settlement with the US over the longest running trade disputes involving large civil aviation aircrafts (Airbus-Boeing).

The team has a challenging and demanding agenda including helping to shape the World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules-based trading system and a range of other trade partner interventions in which the UK has a strategic and economic interest. We are looking to fill the head of branch role which manages all WTO and FTA trade disputes the UK faces or might bring as well as the UK interests in disputes brought by other parties against each other.

The role will suit anyone able to deliver a demanding and high-profile brief, willing to embrace and resolve complex interactions of domestic, international trade and foreign policy; and inter & intra institutional policy tensions. The successful candidate will be empowered with a prime portfolio in crafting and steering the UK’s response to an increasingly fractured international trade and geopolitical landscape.

You will be flexible in supporting the team’s diverse and demanding portfolio and in return we will offer a key leadership role in the team and directorate with extensive visibility and influence across the expanded breadth of work within the department, and Whitehall; regular interaction with the department’s top leadership team (DGs, Second Permanent Secretary), and Ministers; and a platform to represent the UK and engage our international trade partners.

As the successful candidate, you will:

  • Have policy and strategic ownership of all UK trade disputes at the WTO, in all FTAs (except the TCA) and rest of the world trade agreement. You will direct and manage the UK’s legacy, current and future interests in international trade dispute settlement, strategically and coherently building the UK’s role as an exemplar and champion of the Rules-Based International System;
  • Lead, direct and motivate the high performing Case Policy branch of the team, which is responsible for leading any trade dispute that arises between the UK and international partners;
  • Have significant exposure to, and secure the confidence of, seniors and Ministers. You will oversee, develop and provide competent advice to seniors, Second Permanent Secretary and Ministers/Secretary of State and confidently brief them as required;
  • Collaborate with the FTA Disputes and Strategy & Reform Branches of the team to ensure policy coherence, bringing inspirational leadership and cohesion to the wider disputes team and portfolio as a whole;
  • Collaborate with DBT legal and analysts to manage dispute risks in policies and develop dispute strategies – as well as managing the UK’s strategy as regards trade disputes between other trading partners at the WTO. You will be adept at understanding technical legal concepts and legal-heavy submissions and text; and converting analysis, insight and evidence into recommendations backed by sound judgement and nous. You will work with finance and commercial teams to ensure commercial and financial requirements and implications of disputes are understood and monitored;
  • Build strong working relationships and work collaboratively with sector teams and cross-cutting teams in the merged department on current and emerging policies and how they relate to the UK’s international obligations;
  • Lead and direct OGDs to manage risks and develop dispute strategies, working collaboratively to balance political ambition with dispute risk exposure; develop the UK’s offensive dispute potential, ensuring appropriate policy, engagement, handling and mitigations are in place; and
  • Respond creatively, often at pace, to emerging risks or new intelligence, manage competing priorities ensuring rapid strategies, responses and plans are in place.

Please note that this role involves international travel.