1,185 Full time jobs in Bishop Auckland, County Durham

Contract type: Permanent

Working Pattern: This post is available on a Full Time basis (Flexible working hours can be accommodated)

Location: Darlington (Feethams House)

Do you want to advise ministers on promoting and protecting the UK’s economy and its competitiveness internationally in a fast-changing environment? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) sits within HM Treasury and has been operational since March 2016. In our first six years we quickly established ourselves as a world-leader in financial sanctions, a key area of financial, foreign and national security policy. We remain front and centre of an unprecedented financial sanctions response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

OFSI's Litigation team are looking for a Senior Sanctions Adviser. We handle OFSI’s legal challenges and promote awareness and understanding of legal risk to ensure that OFSI can implement sanctions effectively.

The unprecedented speed, scale and complexity of the UK’s sanctions response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a step change in the risks faced by OFSI. Responding to this significant increase in sanctions litigation has been at the forefront of the dynamic and exciting work we have undertaken recently.

Key Accountabilities

1. Lead workstreams to progress OFSI’s major legal proceedings. You may be attending meetings and court hearings, carrying out research and analysis to strengthen cases, preparing and inputting into key submissions, advice and documents, and managing processes around disclosing OFSI material.

2. Provide specialist advice across OFSI on how to progress high-risk casework, delivering excellent customer service. Bring together partners, including Treasury Legal Advisers, where needed to devise effective processes and ensure robust handling of high-risk casework.

3. Delivery of OFSI’s Monetary Penalty Reviews or Counter Terrorism Administrative Reviews, including supporting Ministers in their review of OFSI monetary penalty decisions for financial sanctions breaches or domestic terrorism designations, collaborating with OFSI Enforcement and TLA colleagues to analyse legal representations and coordinating the compilation of evidence to enable the Minister to make an informed decision.

4. Design, develop, and deliver training opportunities and resources for OFSI colleagues on how to understand and handle legal risk in their work. Collaborate with colleagues across different teams to ensure high-quality and impactful training and resources.

5. Work with data and technology to better understand our risks and cases, providing insights to decision-makers. Finding opportunities to push technology further to streamline our casework, or operations.

About you

Although previous experience of financial sanctions or public law litigation is not essential, you will need to demonstrate the potential to quickly develop an understanding of the complexities and sensitivities of our work. You will be able to communicate complex issues effectively orally and in writing, as well as analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support complex decision making. Lastly, you’ll be able to handle a varied workload in a fast-paced environment, balancing proactive project work and reactive tasks in order meet immediate and longer-term goals.

About us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances.

Some of the Benefits our people love! 

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days 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 you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours). 
• Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages. 
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help met the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.
• 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. 

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the HM Treasury recruitment team.