Head of Local Growth Strategy

Are you interested in making life better in the country's least prosperous places? Would you like to join an organisation that plays a key role in enabling everywhere to prosper? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The Housing, Planning and Cities team are responsible for managing the spending for the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). This involves working with DLUHC on policies to accelerate housing building, make housing more affordable, and levelling up (reducing inequalities between different places in the UK).

We are responsible for over £10 billion of public spending each year, including housing, homelessness, planning reform, local economic growth and levelling up opportunity across the UK.

About the Job
We have an exciting role at the heart of HM Treasury's work on economic growth and levelling up (the Government’s mission to combat social and economic inequalities between places in the UK). Our role in crafting economic policy and its oversight of public spending makes HM Treasury an outstanding place to make a tangible impact on these issues. We can offer you the opportunity to work on some of the Government’s biggest domestic priorities, with keen interest from the Chancellor and other Ministers.

Key accountabilities
Setting and articulating HM Treasury’s regional growth strategy, including for the next Spending Review - this will involve developing a strong understanding of regional growth, and how we can best use HMT’s policy levers to drive it, working with others in HM Treasury to ensure it is part of our wider economic growth strategy.
Responsibility for c£4bn annual spending; You will supervise scrutiny of spending across all local growth budgets in DLUHC – working with the department to ensure taxpayers money is spent appropriately, efficiently and delivers value for money.
Encouraging excellent relationships with senior partners in DLUHC; No 10; external local growth specialists; local government; and think tanks. We are an outward looking team and part of this will involve supporting your team in developing wider links with external partners in order to provide the best advice possible to HM Treasury Ministers.
Strong and inclusive leadership and line management of a team of 8 with 3 direct reports and 5 junior staff under them. This is a priority for us, and you will set direction for them, provide development opportunities and mentoring, and pastoral support to build an outstanding team.

About you
Our successful candidate will be able to use strong analytical and policy skills, excellent judgement, and strategic thinking to lead on a wide reaching and high profile portfolio. You’ll be skilled at analysing and evaluating a range of information to draw out strong advice for Ministers. Lastly, you’ll comfortably build positive working relationships with a wide range of senior and external partners, deploying strong influencing and negotiating skills.
If this sounds like you, get in touch!

About us
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.

Some of the Benefits our people love!
25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours).
Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages.
A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%
Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.
Access to HM Treasury’s benefits portal allowing you access to a range of discount codes for online shopping.
A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
Access to a range of allowances if eligibility applies. These include profession related allowances.

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

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 HM Treasury recruitment team.