Policy Advisor, Economic Coercion and Market Distorting Practices (2 roles)
| Posting date: | 17 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,254 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £34,254 - £36,142 London: £38,138 - £39,994 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 January 2025 |
| Location: | DL1 5AD |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 386277/2 |
Summary
These roles are based in the Market Distorting Practices and Economic Coercion Team, part of the Trade Defence directorate, within DBT’s Economic Security and Trade Relations Group. Our directorate works to ensure the UK is defended from unfair trade, market distortions and emerging threats to protect our economic prosperity and security.
We are seeking two enthusiastic and diligent Policy Advisors in the Market Distorting Practices and Economic Coercion Teams:
One role will be in the Economic Coercion team, which is responsible for developing domestic and international policy to build the UK’s resilience and respond to potential acts of coercion, whilst shaping the international environment to reduce the likelihood and costs of this damaging practice. Broadly, economic coercion refers to the use of arbitrary and abusive economic or commercial measures – such as illegitimate trade restrictions or boycotts – designed to inflict economic pressure on another state and force a change in policy.
One role will be in the Market Distorting Practices team, which is responsible for the underlying policy and international engagement on the UK’s trade approach with respect to harmful subsidies, unfair behaviour by state-owned enterprises, and unfair competition.
These are exciting and intellectually stimulating policy areas with significant political and international interest. You will sit at the intersection of complex and consequential decisions involving security, economic and foreign policy.
While you do not need specific knowledge of related policy, you will need to become an expert quickly. You will also need to confidently collaborate with Government departments and businesses to help formulate UK positions for international engagement.
You will need to be flexible and prepared to support work across the teams, and wider Directorate, as required and to adapt to new priorities. We work in an emerging policy area and this role will suit a self-starter and future leader who is comfortable with shifting priorities.
Our teams are vibrant, hardworking and collaborative. We pride ourselves on investing in our peoples’ skills, knowledge, and career development.
We strongly encourage applications from people from every part of the community and with diverse skills, perspectives, and backgrounds to bring real strength to our team and the wider department. Our recruitment process is specifically crafted to be fair and accessible for all applicants.
Policy Adviser, Economic Coercion
We are looking to recruit a Higher Executive Officer (HEO) to support our programme of bilateral engagement. The successful candidate will be part of a supportive, dynamic and agile team working on a rapidly evolving policy area. This role requires strong organisational skills to help drive forward a programme of international engagements, including coordinating and maintaining progress across different initiatives. Some knowledge of international trade and economic security is helpful but not a prerequisite. Of greater importance is enthusiasm, collaboration and a desire to learn.
Key accountabilities include:
- Coordinate and deliver high-quality written briefings, submissions, and other documents to aid the delivery of our objectives.
- Collaborate across DBT, Whitehall and overseas partners to support embedding economic coercion considerations into broader domestic and international policy agendas.
- Help to scope opportunities for international engagements that build knowledge and progress our work on economic coercion.
- Support planning and delivery of international engagements with priority partners.
- Develop a deep understanding of economic security policy issues in order to support strategy development.
- Maintain project plans, identify and monitor interdependencies across programme of work; conduct lessons learned after key milestones.
Policy Adviser, Market Distorting Practices
We are looking for a Higher Executive Officer (HEO) to contribute to our policy, negotiation and implementation programme promoting a level playing field in trade policy internationally. You will need to confidently collaborate with Government departments and businesses to identify UK interests, leverage support for policy positions, and help formulate UK strategy for negotiations and other international engagement.
Key accountabilities include:
- Help develop trade policy that is consistent with the UK’s domestic and international priorities on subsidies, state owned enterprises, and other aspects of competition regulation and consumer protection.
- Help develop evidence-based positions, including for country-specific negotiations or multilateral work, with a particular focus on sector knowledge and UK industrial policy.
- Provide Secretariat and other support for team working across UK Government and with constitutional partners, including the Devolved Governments, to ensure informed and joined up policy.
- Develop a deep understanding of negotiation and policy issues and contribute to strategy development.
- Support international dialogue including bilateral negotiations or multilateral engagement at the WTO or in other international fora.
- Contribute to advice on how technical policy outcomes relate to real-world business impacts and communicate this in a way that businesses understand.
- Support briefings and other materials for Ministers and senior officials. Commission legal and other analytical advice to inform our policy positions.
- Support ensuring that processes are in place to implement commitments in UK law and operational practice.
Applicants will be considered for both vacancies. We will ask whether you have a preference for either role at interview stage.
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