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 future economy. We are a team of 17 people who put a strong emphasis on an inclusive and open culture. 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. About the Job This is an exciting time to join the team – you will play a pivotal role in working across HM Treasury and with DfE to help implement the recent Spending Review settlement, and to prepare for and help deliver the next Spending Review due to take place next year. You will build networks across HMT as well as develop positive relationships with DfE to find common positions and broker agreements. Key Accountabilities include: Leading the monitoring of DfE’s in-year budget position. We have just set DfE’s budget for the next three years at the recent Spending Review. You will now support the implementation of this budget through leading the monitoring of DfE’s in-year budget position. This involves analysing DfE’s spending data on a monthly basis, identifying and helping to respond to emerging spending risks. This also involves leading advice for HM Treasury seniors and ministers to resolve novel, contentious, repercussive or complex spending issues that require HM Treasury approval.

Leading HM Treasury’s relationship with two non-ministerial departments, Ofsted and Ofqual. You will independently own and maintain strong relationships with senior finance officials in Ofsted and Ofqual, leading advice for HM Treasury ministers to help set and monitor their budgets.

Supporting the team’s Spending Principal to help set the overall education spending strategy, both RDEL and CDEL, including at Spending Reviews and fiscal events. As part of the team’s central branch, you will support the Spending Principal and the team’s senior Management (consisting of two Grade 6s and a Deputy Director) to develop a team-wide position on how to prioritise spending in the education space and to provide briefing for senior officials and ministers to support their decisions. About You We're looking for people who have strong analytical and judgement skills as well as the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with a wide range of partners. We want you to be able to prioritise and reassess workloads and be able to explain and skilfully influence others. Some of the Benefits our people love! 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 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 employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) Generous parental and adoption leave packages Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28% Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.