Policy Adviser - Industrial Strategy

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The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy is a core part of the Government’s growth mission. It provides a ten-year framework to support investment, productivity and better jobs. The Strategy focuses on eight priority sectors and tackles barriers to growth across the economy. While the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade leads day-to-day delivery, HM Treasury plays a central role in embedding the Strategy across the Government’s wider growth agenda. Looking ahead, the Strategy will also provide an important framework for delivering the Prime Minister’s reindustrialisation agenda.

This is a varied and high-profile role at the heart of one of the Government’s top priorities. You will help ensure the Industrial Strategy remains focused on delivery while contributing to work on reindustrialisation, place-based growth and economic resilience across a wide range of sectors and policy areas. You will work closely with colleagues across HM Treasury, the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade and other government departments to support the Government’s growth ambitions.

The role combines strategic oversight, cross-government coordination and policy development. It offers a unique opportunity to shape work at the centre of government by advising and supporting ministers and senior officials on issues critical to the UK's long-term economic success.

Alongside core Industrial Strategy responsibilities, you will contribute to the team’s wider programme of work on growth, industrial policy and economic resilience. This could include supporting emerging ministerial priorities and taking ownership of new areas of work as the branch's portfolio evolves. The successful candidate will be comfortable working across a broad range of issues and adapting quickly as priorities evolve.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, building relationships and solving complex problems.

Key Accountabilities

• Support HM Treasury's contribution to the Government's emerging reindustrialisation agenda, including leading discrete policy projects and workstreams that support growth and ministerial priorities.
• Build strong relationships across Whitehall and ensure Treasury priorities are reflected in the development and delivery of policies that support growth, productivity and place-based economic development, including industrial clusters where relevant.
• Provide high-quality advice, briefings and submissions to ministers and senior officials.
• Lead HM Treasury’s Industrial Strategy governance, coordinating input and ensuring ministers and senior officials have clear oversight of delivery progress, risks and emerging issues.
• Lead HM Treasury's sponsorship of the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council (ISAC), working closely with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade to shape the Council's forward work programme, oversee commissioned projects and contribute to decisions on Council membership and governance.
• Maintain a strong forward look across the Government’s growth agenda, identifying risks, opportunities and emerging priorities.

We work in a fast-moving part of HMT and sometimes we need to work outside our core responsibilities to support policy development and implementation across a range of growth policy issues. Our branches work closely together and flexibly, so the successful candidate can expect the opportunity to be involved in other policy projects across the team.

Candidate Drop-In Session

The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury, and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.

Microsoft Teams meeting – Tuesday 13th October 10:00-10:30

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/362543636914200?p=MBwYnvfpTnnKLlgXc7

Meeting ID: 362 543 636 914 200

Passcode: 9QD2sr9M

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact Georgina Beattie, Georgina.Beattie@hmtreasury.gov.uk.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

For this role, experience is not assessed at any stage. We will ask for some CV details in your application form, but this is for reference only and will not be scored.

Candidate Guidance

Please review the candidate guidance for an overview of the Success Profiles and STAR approach, along with top tips for applications and interviews.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 21st October 2026
• Shortlisting: from 22nd October 2026
• Interviews: w/c 2nd November 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.

Reserve Lists

You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a role immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be posted in merit order by location. You will be asked to provide your location preference on your application form. Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer.

If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Those on the reserve list may also be approached for similar roles at a lower grade. If you are offered a role at a lower grade and choose to decline, you can remain on the reserve list.

Internal Fraud Database Check

Candidates cannot apply to roles in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Successful candidates will be subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database. This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This also applies to those who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the database will be refused employment.

National Security Vetting

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, successful candidates will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC).

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. You will be asked to provide residency information within your application form, and eligibility for national security vetting will be checked once the advert closing date has passed. In certain circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.