Deputy Spending Principal- Public Services/ Education and Skills
* Salary: National: £43,090 - £46,500. (If the successful candidate is a current Civil Servant joining on level transfer, HM Treasury will honour their current substantive salary if higher.)
* Contract Type: Permanent
* Working Pattern: This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated.
* Location: Darlington (Feethams House)
We are recruiting a Deputy Spending Principal in the Education and Skills team. This is a key role that sits centrally across the entire spending team. Together with the team’s Spending Principal, this role has responsibility within HM Treasury for overseeing the entirety of DfE’s budget (over £100bn of annual spending – the second largest departmental budget across all of government)!
About the Team
We are a high profile, friendly and supportive team with oversight of across education budgets, ranging from children’s social care and childcare through to schools, further education, and higher education.
Our core role as a spending team is to advise Treasury ministers on education spending proposals, help the Department for Education (DfE) to live within their budget, and work with DfE and other parts of the Treasury to ensure that we have an education and skills system which meets the needs of the...