Department for Business and Trade (DBT)

Locations: DBT has offices in London, Darlington, Edinburgh, Cardiff, , Birmingham and Salford. We aim to place placement new entrants with teams operating from the location at which they will be based, so not all locations may be available.  
  
Number of positions available: 33  
 
Salary: National - £34,254 and London - £38,138 (Plus an analyst allowance of £4,245) 
 
About DBT and our work  
 
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.  
DBT has a wide remit and has a key role to play in making markets work well for business, consumers, and workers. Our work ensures that the economy grows strongly in all parts of the country, based on a robust industrial strategy and secures UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment in the UK.  Our current top priorities are:  

• Industrial Strategy
• Plan for small businesses
• Trade Strategy
• Make Work Pay

We offer talented economists the opportunity to start their career in our central Analyst Group or in one of our analyst teams embedded with policy directorates, including in trade, labour markets, business sectors and safety and standards. These roles will give post-holder a great insight into the role of economics in policy development and the opportunity to analyse and solve some of the greatest challenges we face today in one of the largest analyst functions in central government. In your role you can expect to work with staff across the UK and our international network to: 

• Develop the evidence base for analysis of DBT policy positions and outcomes, to deliver on our mission 
• Use high-quality evidence to support decision-making for effective DBT policy and delivery in a timely fashion. 
• Communicate analysis with impact, building effective working relationships with policy colleagues, other analytical professions, and relevant stakeholders both across His Majesty’s Government (HMG) as well as externally. 

We do this in a working environment that is expert, enterprising, engaged, and inclusive.  

Economist community: DBT has around 700 analyst roles. Economists are the largest group, currently at close to 350, followed by statisticians, social researchers, and operational researchers.  We also have a growing data science community. Many roles are offered to analysts form different profession to provide you with a wide range of opportunities to develop your analytical skills. We also provide L&D opportunities, covering the large topics for which the department is responsible and across the different interests of the analytic professions.  The community also has regular social and other events for members to come together to share their work, to build networks and get to know colleagues.  

Opportunities for Development: DBT has traditionally rotated junior analysts every year in order to provide our staff in the early years of their career with the opportunity to work on a wide range of topics and issues, to gain experience in different aspects of civil service and economist work and to develop their skills.

Eligibility requirements: Candidates will need to hold the right to work in the UK and meet Civil Service Nationality Rules. For most roles, candidates may be required to pass a higher level of security vetting, which requires a UK footprint of 5 years. While we may accept applicants who do not yet meet the requirements for the higher security vetting, the opportunities available for future roles will be much reduced if you are unable to, or until you can, meet the requirement.   
 
Contact point for further details: if you have any questions, please contact analysisbusinesssupport@businessandtrade.gov.uk