About the Team
The Education and Skills team is a high performing spending team, responsible for spending control of one of the largest and most high-profile budgets in government. We lead HMT’s relationship with DfE at a time when the department is delivering several radical reform programmes. We are also at the forefront of the Treasury’s work to boost productivity, by ensuring that we have an education system which meets the needs of the future economy.
We are a friendly and supportive team with a strong emphasis on an inclusive and open culture, making use of everyone’s talents! We are especially proud of our track record in helping our team members to develop and make the most of the opportunities available whilst being in the team.
Our core role is to help the Department for Education (DfE) to live within their budget and deliver reforms to boost productivity in order to grow the economy.
About the Job
In this role, you will:
1. Develop the Treasury’s position on a range of adult skills and apprenticeships spending and policy issues, balancing fiscal considerations with the need to boost productivity and growth, and preparing high quality advice and briefing to ministers.
2. Lead on spending control functions for the branch, scrutinising spending proposals, assessing evidence, analysing information and offering constructive challenge on plans.
3. Work...