Senior Policy Advisers (part-time)

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Job description

Are you interested in playing an important role in a key government Department that offers an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK? We are seeking a highly motivated individual who is proactive and has a 'can do' attitude to join our Office for Tax Simplification team.

We are currently looking for tax professionals to join the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS) within HM Treasury!

The OTS is a statutory Office of HM Treasury, providing the Chancellor with independent advice on simplifying the UK tax system. We depend on combining the diverse skills of tax professionals with varied current or recent practical private sector experience, with those of staff with relevant HM Treasury or HMRC policy experience, and on meeting and collaborating with others to seek their views.

You will need the ability to build collaborative, interpersonal relationships and an enthusiasm for driving out structural, practical and administrative simplifications to the tax system, along with an interest in the practical questions in growing digitisation.

We depend on combining the diverse skills of tax professionals with varied current or recent practical private sector experience, with those of staff with relevant HM Treasury or HMRC policy experience, and on meeting and consulting with others across the UK to seek their views.

Key Accountabilities for this role include:

• Analyse widely-used areas of the tax system, taking account of differing views and perspectives, and the economic and political context, to identify and evaluate potential areas for simplification.
• Identify and analyse specific technical, digital and other administrative ways to simplify the tax system, and their likely impacts, costs and benefits for taxpayers, their advisors, the exchequer and HMRC, so that we can formulate specific recommendations and broader directions of travel.
• Build flexible and creative interpersonal relationships within the team and with a wide range of others, including HM Treasury, HMRC, in the tax profession and in the business community.
• Create and edit draft material for OTS published reports and internal papers in a way which reflects the needs of a general readership, and seek views from our Board, HM Treasury, HMRC and others as work proceeds and meet project management and publication timetables.
• Share knowledge and perspectives from your experience, and your links with others, and grow in your own understanding of how tax policy is made, so we can fully benefit from the diversity of experience and perspectives available to us.
• Represent the OTS, and its perspective, in meetings and in other ways, to help build and broaden our reputation and impact.

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 diversity of thought 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, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the Queen's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• 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)

More information about the Treasury can be found here.

For more information about the role, salary and benefits and how to apply please follow the "Apply" link.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact David Halsey by an email.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team by an email.

Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.