The EUST Directorate leads DBT’s work to boost growth through helping reset the UK-EU economic relationship; leads the Government’s policy work on UK-EU services trade and investment; and is responsible for a few important domestic regulatory frameworks in the post-Brexit landscape.
The work of the Regulated Professions Policy Team is crucial to these functions. The team works to ensure that the cross-cutting framework for regulating UK professions (from auditors to vets) supports access to professions for UK citizens and overseas professionals (this includes new policy development, implementation of the Professional Qualifications Act 2022 and standing up new networks and systems for regulators and individuals). The team works closely with other government departments, regulators and Devolved Governments to achieve these objectives.
The team is responsible for many international elements of the UK’s approach to recognition of professional qualifications and removing barriers to services trade. This includes implementing the Government’s manifesto commitment to secure a UK-EU mutual recognition agreement for professional qualifications to help open up markets for UK service exporters; implementing the UK’s trade commitments on professional qualifications; and enabling recognition arrangements between regulators in the UK and overseas.
The EUST Directorate has a track record of success in delivering excellent policy work for Ministers and great development opportunities for staff. We work hard to bring a range of different perspectives, evidence and analysis into our work. We are a friendly, welcoming group, based in a number of locations across the UK. We are an inclusive team and believe that having people from different backgrounds (gender, race, sexuality, socio-economic, educational, geographical, family circumstances) makes it a better team in every way. We encourage all applications.
This is a senior leadership role, supporting the Government’s growth agenda, with a portfolio that combines delivery of a UK-EU Reset manifesto commitment and professional qualifications elements of the Government’s broader international trade agenda, with responsibility for continued implementation of the underpinning domestic regulatory framework.
The role holder’s key objectives are to:
* Negotiate a high-profile mutual recognition agreement with the EU;
* Open-up new markets for UK professionals through implementation of professional qualification provisions in the UK’s free trade agreements, including by targeting grant funding and helping UK regulators to agree arrangements with their overseas counterparts;
* Work across the UK Government, with Devolved Governments and with regulators to develop cross-cutting policy frameworks, digital systems and networks for UK professions and recognition of overseas professional qualifications, supporting growth and other HMG priorities;
* Lead a team of around 30 staff, directly line managing two deputies; and
* Make an active contribution to the culture and corporate life of the EUST Directorate as part of its SLT and as SCS champion for some of its corporate workstreams.
The role holder should be prepared to be flexible and willing to undertake expanded/adjusted responsibilities, depending on the outcome of Phase 2 of the Spending Review 2025.
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