Engagement Manager

Job description

About the job

Job summary

Working at HM Treasury puts you at the heart of government, making a difference to the UK economy and ultimately to people's lives right across the UK.

Jobs at the Treasury are fast-paced, fun and can offer unparalleled perspective - not least the opportunity to advise Ministers on the decisions which directly determine the UK's prosperity. Deep in our DNA is a commitment to empowering our people: maximising individual and collective impact, with interesting work no matter your role or seniority.

Day-to-day you could be supporting Ministers to decide the right level of a specific tax or line of government spending; helping maintain the stability of financial markets; analysing the long-term trends impacting the future of the economy; or enabling this work as part of our vital corporate functions.

We are a high-performing department and proud to have outstanding staff from a wide range of backgrounds. We are also a friendly, inclusive and sociable workplace that prides itself on fostering great team spirit. Our two largest offices are 1 Horse Guards Road in London, opposite St James' Park, and the Darlington Economic Campus, which also contains eight other departments. We work seamlessly across all our sites, including Norwich, Birmingham and Leeds, as one Treasury.

We are both a 1,000-year-old institution and dynamic, forward-looking economics and finance ministry, with a strong direction set by our organisational strategy, the Future Treasury Vision. The 21st century offers huge opportunities and poses new challenges for the UK. Working at the Treasury is your chance to help the country chart the right course.

Job description

We're recruiting for an Engagement Manager to join OFSI's Industry Engagement Team.

OFSI plays a vital role at the heart of the UK's financial sanctions, working on fast-moving, high-profile and internationally significant issues. As the sanctions landscape continues to evolve, businesses in the UK and around the world need clear, timely and practical engagement to help them understand and comply with UK financial sanctions.

Reporting to the Deputy Head of Industry Engagement, you will work to deliver a varied and outward-facing programme of work connecting OFSI with the businesses and sectors responsible for implementing financial sanctions. You will help ensure industry receives clear and practical engagement, while supporting senior colleagues to understand the issues, risks and opportunities being raised by external stakeholders.

The role is broad, varied and highly collaborative. You will help deliver OFSI's industry engagement work by playing a key role in driving forward our ambitious events programme, managing relationships with firms and sectors, and leading innovative targeted communications campaigns. You will work closely with colleagues across OFSI, including policy, legal, licensing, enforcement and strategic communications teams, to provide high-quality support to businesses and senior leaders.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop strong stakeholder engagement, communications and relationship management skills while working on some of the most important policy issues facing government. You will be supported to build your expertise in financial sanctions policy and government communications, including through the Government Communications Service Advance Practitioner development programme.

Key responsibilities:

• Play a key role in delivering OFSI's ambitious global events programme in support of our strategy, helping to scope new events, consider invitations and prepare high-quality briefing for Senior Civil Servants and other principals. You will ensure senior colleagues are well prepared for external engagements, through accurate briefing with clear advice on the audience, key issues, handling points and opportunities to strengthen OFSI's relationships with industry, along with working closely with other colleagues across the ECAS directorate to ensure cohesion of messaging. You will also have opportunities to attend events, represent OFSI externally at networking sessions, and build strong relationships with external stakeholders.
• Build, maintain, and own a portfolio of relationships with firms and sectors, working with stakeholders over time to understand their businesses, the issues they are facing and the support they need from OFSI to increase their sanctions' compliance. You will build trusted and constructive relationships, act as a regular point of contact, collect evidence and feedback, and help firms navigate financial sanctions issues by drawing on the right expertise from across OFSI.
• Lead engagement casework across a range of sectors and issues, responding to complex or sensitive policy questions from businesses and other external stakeholders. This will involve understanding the issue quickly, coordinating input from policy, legal, licensing, enforcement or operational colleagues, and producing clear, pragmatic responses that help firms understand OFSI's position.
• Lead innovative targeted engagement campaigns: working to raise awareness, communicate changes, improve understanding among specific sectors or stakeholder groups, and use stakeholder insight from these campaigns to inform internal analysis. You will help define the audience, messages, products and channels for these campaigns, working closely with teams such as Strategic Communications to make effective use of digital tools, innovative platforms and creative approaches to reach the right people in the right way.
• Support responses to sanctions-related Freedom of Information requests and other statutory obligations by gathering information, drafting clear and concise lines, and coordinating input from relevant OFSI teams. This may include supporting mailbox handling, helping the Industry Engagement Team respond to external queries where needed, and ensuring effective record-keeping in OFSI's repository systems.

This role does not have line management responsibility, but you may be expected to matrix manage within the team.

The role will involve regular travel to London, with occasional travel elsewhere in the UK. This will depend on our events and engagements but will not be expected more than once monthly.

If candidates require reasonable adjustments during the application process, or online test process, please allow sufficient time (at least 5 working days prior to the job closing date) to request support, to allow us to support candidates as best as possible. Please note that there is no candidate support from Friday 5pm until Monday 9am.

Candidate Drop-In Session

The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury, and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.

Friday 28th August 2026 @ 11:00 - 11:30 Join the meeting here

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact: [email protected]

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Person specification

Pre-Application Online Test

Prior to submitting your application, you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Online Test relevant to the role. Once you start your application you will receive an email invitation with details on how to proceed and you will only be able to submit your full application if you meet the pass mark.

For this post, you will be asked to complete;

• Civil Service Judgement Test (Judgement Test)

For more information on Civil Service tests, and for guidance on how to practice and prepare for

them, please visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/civil-service-online-tests

Application Stage

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history won't be scored. It's used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

1. Ability to communicate complex policy issues effectively, both in writing and verbally, with a variety of internal and external stakeholders (Communicating and Influencing).
2. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders, building constructive relationships, and sharing information to achieve strong outcomes (Working Together).
3. Ability to deliver a high-quality, responsive service to internal and external stakeholders, managing competing priorities while ensuring outputs are clear, accurate, timely and focused (Managing a Quality Service).

The lead criterion is: Communicating and Influencing

If we receive a high volume of applications, we'll first sift using the lead criterion only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Strengths
• Behaviours:
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Seeing the Big Picture

Interview Task / Presentation

Prior to your interview, we will contact you about a task / presentation that the panel would like you to deliver as part of the assessment. Further details will be communicated to you nearer the time.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,130, HM Treasury contributes £10,466 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Generous Annual Leave - 25 days (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus public holidays and the King's birthday.
• Outstanding Pension Scheme - Defined Benefit pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Parental Leave Packages - Including 6 months' occupational pay for maternity/adoption, shared parental leave options.
• Flexible & Hybrid Working - Options include part-time, job-share, compressed hours, flexitime, and hybrid working (where business needs allow).
• Advance Schemes & Discounts - Rental deposit, cycle-to-work, SmartTech, season ticket loans, and access to HM Treasury's benefits portal for a wide range of discount codes.

You can review HM Treasury's full offer here.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

The reference to Experience above is system generated. For this role, experience is not assessed at any stage. We will ask for some CV details in your application form, but this is for reference only and will not be scored.

Candidate GuidancePlease review the candidate guidance for an overview of the Success Profiles and STAR approach, along with top tips for applications and interviews.

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 23:55 on 6th September 2026
• Shortlisting: w/c 7th September 2026
• Interviews: w/c 28th September 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.

Reserve Lists

You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a role immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be posted in merit order by location. You will be asked to provide your location preference on your application form. Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer.

If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Those on the reserve list may also be approached for similar roles at a lower grade. If you are offered a role at a lower grade and choose to decline, you can remain on the reserve list.

Internal Fraud Database Check

Candidates cannot apply to roles in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Successful candidates will be subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database. This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This also applies to those who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the database will be refused employment.

National Security Vetting

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, successful candidates will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC)

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. You will be asked to provide residency information within your application form, and eligibility for national security vetting will be checked once the advert closing date has passed. In certain circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Aaron
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]

Further information

Complaints Process: Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email at: [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.