Policy Adviser - Cyber & International Resilience

If youre interested in making a difference to peoples 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 cross-government hub bringing people together to tackle key national issues while working closer to the communities we serve.

The Resilience & Resolution team is hiring an SEO policy adviser to support the teams work in identifying and managing emerging risks to the financial stability of the UK, and preparing and responding where risks crystalise.

Policy Adviser Cyber & International Resilience

We are looking for a Policy Adviser to work on our growing portfolio on cyber and international resilience. This is an exciting time to join as we are looking to expand our engagement with international partners and firms in the finance sector and launch new streams of work all at a time when the technological and geopolitical threat landscape is evolving.

This is a varied and stretching role, with an exciting set of policy issues and opportunities to build strong stakeholder relationships. Your work will support UK national security through HMTs role as the Lead Government Department for the finance sector one of the UKs critical sectors.

The Units work is dynamic from designing policy, to running war-game exercises, to meeting with overseas partners and is well suited to curious minds and driven personalities. Given the increasing profile of security and resilience policy, and the finance sectors leadership in this area, this will also involve opportunities to advise senior officials and ministers.

Key accountabilities include:

1. Provide advice on cyber security issues in the financial sector, including engaging within HMT and across Government to influence policy development. You will produce advice and recommendations as well as owning and developing your own policy on a range of complex and evolving policy issues including HMG cyber legislation, ransomware policy, and Artificial Intelligence.
2. Build strong working relationships with colleagues across the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, National Cyber Security Centre (part of GCHQ), National Protective Security Agency (part of MI5), Cabinet Office and other government departments. You will need to leverage a wide range of relationships to deliver HMT objectives.
3. Effectively represent HMT views internationally, including representing HMT at G7 Cyber Experts Group (CEG) workstreams, attending and briefing seniors for international engagements, and more generally leading our international engagement strategy with overseas partners, particularly Five Eyes (United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
4. Play an active role in responding to operational incidents for example cyber attacks to minimise negative impacts on the finance sector and consumers.

The post holder will need to undergo Security Check (SC) clearance to begin the role, if this is not already held. Once in post, the role holder will also need to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) to fulfil their role.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact [email protected].

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Application Stage

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history wont be scored. Its used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

1. Working Together: Ability to build good relationships with colleagues from different teams and use these connections to drive goals forward
2. Making Effective Decisions: Ability to look at complicated information, weigh up different options and clearly explain your recommendation
3. Delivering at Pace: Ability to deliver across different priorities when there are conflicting demands

The lead criterion is Working Together.

If we receive a high volume of applications, well first sift using the lead criterion only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Strengths
• Behaviours: Delivering at Pace, Making Effective Decisions, Seeing the Big Picture, Working Together

Interview Task / Presentation

Prior to your interview, we will contact you about a task / presentation that the panel would like you to deliver as part of the assessment. Further details will be communicated to you nearer the time.