Policy Adviser - Oil and Gas Tax

Are you looking to join an encouraging and friendly team, working at the heart of HM Treasury's fiscal, economic and environmental objectives? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Energy and Transport Tax team is responsible for a broad range of live policy areas that get significant amounts of ministerial attention. Our Environment and Resource Taxation branch works on the fiscal regime for North Sea oil and gas, a tax on plastic packaging, landfill tax and aggregates levy. This branch also coordinates the department’s approach to using tax levers to deliver the government’s net zero objectives.

About the Role

This is a fascinating time to be leading policy work on the taxation of this sector as the government sets its longer-term vision for the role of oil and gas in the UK’s energy mix.

In recent years the branch has delivered several high-profile measures that have attracted significant political and external attention following the surge in commodity prices that took place after the COVID pandemic. Continuing to implement, monitor and advise Ministers on the impact of these changes are key areas of work moving forward.

Joining us as a Policy Adviser, you'll have core policy responsibilities in relation to the oil and gas fiscal regime, and will be answering queries from the public or MPs, preparing Ministerial or written briefings and delivering a range of different policy projects. You'll also need to build and maintain positive working relationships with a range of colleagues and collaborators. You'll be exposed to a mix of tax and spending issues, which is unusual!

Key accountabilities

1. Managing the North Sea oil and gas tax regime
2. Managing the Treasury’s interests in oil and gas decommissioning, including the Decommissioning Relief Deed (DRD) programme.
3. Advising Ministers on oil and gas tax policy and in dealing with parliamentary, media and external or x-government engagement
4. Build and maintain an extensive network of external partners
5. Collaborating across government
6. Managing communication and briefing products related to oil and gas tax.

For a full description of the key accountabilities, please follow the apply link.

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 know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. 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 27%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.
• Access to HM Treasury’s benefits portal allowing you access to a range of discount codes for online shopping.
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

Access to a range of allowances if eligibility applies. These include profession related allowances.

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 recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk