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About HM Treasury

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives across the country, the Treasury is the department for you! We sit at the centre of everything that the Government does and have provided advice on economic policy and decisions that affect the public finances throughout the country’s history. A Treasury career continues to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK.

Working at the heart of government, we collaborate with other departments to ensure public money is spent well and to drive strong and sustainable economic growth. Our work ranges from protecting customers through to the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, supporting people across the country through the COVID 19 furlough scheme and Plan for Jobs as well as helping first time buyers buy their first home.

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

The Darlington Economic Campus is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring people together across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important issues of the day.

HM Treasury in Darlington will be joined by the Department for International Trade, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Department for Education and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

About the Group - Enterprise and Growth Unit

The Enterprise and Growth Unit (EGU) promotes sustainable economic growth and higher productivity for the UK. We provide analysis and advice on enterprise, innovation, private sector investment and a cost-effective transition to a low-carbon economy. The Enterprise and Growth Unit has a varied and exciting agenda, and we work closely with a wide variety of other teams across the Treasury.

We also work alongside other departments and government organisations to ensure that we are thinking creatively, spending wisely and acting boldly to deliver these goals. These organisations include:

• the Department for Business and Trade,
• the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero,
• The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology,
• the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs,
• the Department for Transport,
• the Department for Culture, Media & Sport,
• the Competition and Markets Authority

About the Team

We have a range of exciting and varied Policy Adviser roles available in the Enterprise and Growth Unit and all offer excellent opportunities to work on high profile issues and policy areas. We expect to use the reserve list from this bulk recruitment to fill other similar roles that arise in future.

Specific roles and requirements remain subject to change, but we are looking to fill the following roles:

• 1x Policy Adviser – Climate Spending Strategy
• 1x Policy Adviser – Government Investments and Assets
• 2x Policy Adviser – Special Situations

Addition details of specific roles are provided below.

1x Policy Adviser – Climate Spending Strategy

The Climate and Environment Team (CET) acts as the focal point for HM Treasury’s work on climate change, net zero and the natural environment. The team leads on embedding domestic climate risk, net zero and environmental policy considerations into the work of the department. We work with teams in tax, spending, economics, trade, fiscal, financial services, and financial stability to use the range of levers which Treasury controls to support the government in developing affordable and economically efficient plans to achieve its legal commitments under the Climate Change Act 2008 and Environment Act 2021.

We advance Treasury interests across some of the biggest policy opportunities and challenges facing the UK including climate mitigation and adaptation, decarbonising heat and buildings, water company regulation, waste sector reform, implementing England’s agricultural transition plan and reforming our domestic environment policy – including through new statutory targets for the recovery of the natural world. We also support international colleagues in their efforts to galvanise global action on climate and nature.

1x Policy Adviser – Government Investments and Assets

Government Investments and Assets (GINA) lead for HM Treasury on the government’s commercial asset portfolio, and work with HM Treasury spending teams and departmental shareholders to supervise and monitor some of government’s most complex assets, including public owned companies and arm’s length bodies. We have a stewardship role to ensure assets are on a sustainable financial footing, their risks are well managed, and they are delivering for government and the public. Examples of current and past projects including work on Non-Executive Director appointments, the Post Office, Channel 4 and the Energy Market Financing Scheme.

The team also provides shareholder sponsorship and accounting officer support for UK Government Investments (UKGI) and The Royal Mint, ensuring that they are aligned to Ministers’ objectives, capable, well governed and working effectively with HM Treasury.

• UKGI is the government’s centre of excellence for corporate governance and corporate finance. It performs the shareholder function on behalf of government departments for a £945 billion portfolio of assets, which employ over 115,000 people, generate approximately £17 billion of income.
• The Royal Mint manufactures and distributes coins across the UK and over 30 countries worldwide. HM Treasury is the sole shareholder, and we are supporting the business as it ventures into new areas like recycling of electronic waste for future metals production.

2x Policy Adviser – Special Situations & Companies and Sectors Analysis

The special situation team are the cross-government centre for high profile, sophisticated commercial casework. We triage, assess and design commercial interventions for companies and sectors which are strategically important to the UK economy and need support. We are responsible for policymaking around each intervention, including conditions for support related to climate change, tax transparency and corporate governance. We handle relationships with high-profile companies experiencing longer-term challenges for their UK business.

We are also responsible for HM Treasury policy making in response to cross-economy corporate shocks, for example Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the consequent increase in business energy prices. This involves developing strategic policy options affecting the resilience of certain sectors. Recent examples include designing energy support schemes for UK businesses and a scheme to help maintain liquidity in the energy market and working with international colleagues to develop UK sanctions policy for Russia.

Key Accountabilities

These roles would be particularly suitable for candidates able to build positive relationships quickly, and who would enjoy a mixture of medium-term strategic work and work that requires quick and effective decision making. These roles involve working in a fast-paced policy environment and offer opportunities to work with senior officials across departments, including No.10.

Common responsibilities across these EGU roles include:

• Providing high quality advice to the Chancellor and other Treasury Ministers, senior Treasury officials, and supporting advice to Ministers across government.
• Building a strong network and collaborating with a diverse range of partners both within Treasury and in other government departments to deliver on the team’s and the Treasury’s objectives. This also includes working with the private sector and companies.
• Contributing to the team’s and the group’s wider objectives. We work in a fast-paced part of Treasury, and we sometimes need to work outside our core responsibilities to support policy development and implementation across a range of issues.
• Leading on correspondence, parliamentary questions, and Freedom of Information requests

These are varied and exciting roles that would suit experienced, pro-active candidates who are, self-motivated, able to adapt to changing priorities and work across multiple areas.

Required Skills, Experience and Behaviours:

The below criteria will be assessed in your application form.

The lead criteria is: Making Effective Decisions – The ability to weigh up incomplete and/or conflicting evidence and strategic considerations to reach sound judgements on complex issues.

If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criteria only, which will usually be a behaviour. This may be an experience or technical skill, but only where critical to the position.

We will assess the below further criteria in your application form;

• Working Together – Ability to establish effective relationships with people who have different roles and perspectives, with a proven track record in working confidently across teams.
• Delivering at Pace – Ability to manage a busy workload to deliver to short-term deadlines and long-term priorities, working well under pressure and in an uncertain environment.

Candidate Guidance on Completing your Application Form

Where will we assess success profiles across your application form.

• Behaviours – these will be assessed individually with a 250-word statement per behaviour. The application form will indicate which behaviour is being assessed each time you provide a statement, and we are ideally looking for an example using the below STAR method to demonstrate this behaviour in line with the full criteria stated

All elements of the success profiles will be linked to a defined criterion that demonstrates the behaviour, experience or technical skills. It is beneficial to ensure your answer focuses on the full criteria, and not just the related success profile, to give you the best chance or providing the evidence the panel wants to assess

In your statements, it is best to focus on one example in each section to allow you to provide enough detail in your answer and use all the words you have been allocated. Examples from a range of roles across your application will demonstrate that you have the skills, experience and behaviours we are looking for. We would also advise you to use examples that best meet the criteria, even if it is a few years old

How to Structure your Answer

Please use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) approach when writing your application answers.

• Situation - Describe the situation you found yourself in and what happened.
• Task - The Hiring Manager will want to understand what you tried to achieve from the situation that you found yourself in.
• Action - What actions did you take and how did you do it. Make sure to use “I”, not “we” to explain how your actions lead to a result.
• Result - Use facts and statistics to demonstrate the results that your actions produced. Explain whether it was a successful outcome, and if not, what you learned from the experience.

Notes to Candidates

• Please refer to the candidate FAQ document which is a link on the job advert – this will provide you with guidance on completing the application form. Please contact [email protected] if you have any issue accessing this document
• At HM Treasury, to maximise diversity and inclusion within our workforce, we operate a fair, open and anonymous recruitment process. This means that the sift panel will only be able to assess you on the written evidence supplied in your application answers. They will not have access to personal information.
• You may be asked to provide some CV details during your application; however these will NOT be assessed during the process, but will be used to support discussions at interview – please ensure you put all information you would like to be scored against in your behaviour, experience and technical skill statements
• You will be assessed on your skills, experience and behaviours through the online application form. When completing your application form, please outline how you meet the requirements as detailed in the ‘Essential Criteria ‘section of this job description. This will give you the best chance to provide the evidence that the panel wants to assess. More guidance can be found here – completing you application
• If we receive a large number of applications, applications will be assessed initially against the lead criterion alone. You will then be assessed against the other criteria if you have met the minimum score on the first criterion.
• Find out more about how the Civil Service assesses candidates and uses Success Profiles (opens in a new window) to test skills, experience and behaviours in applications and interviews.
• Applications are not reviewed until the closing date has passed. You will be notified of the outcome of your application as soon as the recruitment panel has reviewed all the applications.

Support to Candidates

Candidate Guidance Support Session

We will be running an overview of Success Profiles and the STAR approach; top tips for the application and interview process and an opportunity to ask general questions around our recruitment practices. If you would like to join us, then use the link below to join the call at the right time.

• Wednesday 24th May 17:00 – Click here to join the meeting
• Wednesday 7th June 12:30 – Click here to join the meeting

Candidate Drop-In Session

We 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 the recruitment process. If you would like to join us, then use the appropriate link below to join the call at the right time.

• Thursday 1st June 17:00: – Click here to join the meeting (MS Teams)

If you are unable to make this session and wish to find out more about the job, please contact the hiring manager: [email protected]

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

• 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)
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%
• 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 (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

Flexible working arrangements:

HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to 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; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month, providing you work enough hours to meet business need.

We also offer a generous parental and adoption leave package.

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 are able to realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Job contact :

Name :
Edward Neeld
Email :
[email protected]

Recruitment team

Email :
[email protected]