Trade and Gender Equality Policy and Negotiations Lead

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Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

Hybrid
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Government
  • Remote option: Hybrid
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: £52,000 GBP-£61,933 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Permanent
  • Deadline: 13/07/2023
  • Location: United Kingdom
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role
Job summary
This is an exciting time to join the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). The newly created department oversees the domestic business environment, breaks down international barriers to trade and investment, and helps boost economic growth by ensuring the UK is a country where businesses can thrive. 
We are recruiting for a role within the Cross Cutting team that sits in the Trade Negotiations Group. The Trade Negotiations Group is responsible for negotiating and implementing the UK’s trade agreements with partner countries from across the globe to support the growth of UK businesses internationally. The Group has over 700 people, expert in diverse technical areas of trade policy and negotiations and is at the cutting edge of delivering the UK’s trade negotiation objectives.  
The Trade and Gender Equality team sits within the Cross Cutting Policy deputy directorate, leading on the policy development, negotiations and implementation of policy positions that advance gender equality in trade. Our aim is to deliver HMG’s commitment to a gender-responsive trade policy, seeking to ensure women can fully access the benefits of trade to support and economic growth. 
Provisions and Chapters on Gender Equality are an increasingly established feature of modern, comprehensive, ambitious FTAs. Our FTA provisions reaffirm domestic or international commitments to gender equality and provide the framework to cooperate with our FTA partners to identify and overcome barriers for women in trade. 
The Trade and Gender Equality Policy and Negotiations Lead role will lead on gender trade policy: from developing UK positions, leading FTA chapter negotiations through to implementing the suite of Gender Equality provisions within existing UK FTAs.  

Job description
Key responsibilities include:
  • Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: For live negotiations, you will play an active role inside and outside the negotiating room, supporting development of a negotiating strategy; assessing partner’s negotiation positions; and advising the Chief Negotiator and team on Gender Equality issues.
  • Free Trade Agreement Implementation: On implementation you will be setting the UK’s strategy for implementing gender provisions within our FTAs. Working across DBT and closely with other Government departments (OGDs) you will ensure the realisation of our FTA gender provisions.
  • Policy development: You will work closely with colleagues and OGD’s to develop gender trade policy and UK negotiating positions (in bilateral and multilateral fora) - making recommendations that draw on expertise from analysts, lawyers, other policy teams, overseas colleagues, and businesses.
  • Cross Government working: You will engage with OGDs in particular the Government Equalities Office and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, to ensure coherence of policy positions, playing a leading role in cross Whitehall forums.
  • Contribute to the leadership of the Cross cutting Team: You will be a senior leader in the Cross cutting team. You will contribute to the team’s culture to create and inclusive, resilient, and supportive team. You will have line management responsibilities, as well as matrix management across the wider team as appropriate.

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