About the Department for International Trade
The Department for International Trade (DIT) helps businesses export, drives inward and outward investment, negotiates market access and trade deals, and champions free trade.
DIT is the international economic department responsible for bringing together policy, promotion and financial expertise to break down barriers to trade and investment and help businesses succeed, delivering a new trade policy framework for the UK as it leaves the EU. DIT promotes British trade and investment across the world and is building the global appetite for UK goods and services. DIT has laid important foundations for the delivery of an independent trade policy after the UK leaves the EU, and DIT has continued to help businesses discover, access and exploit export and investment opportunities, boosting the UK economy.
The department’s four strategic objectives are to:
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Support and encourage UK businesses to drive sustainable international growth;
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Ensure the UK remains a leading destination for international investment and maintains its number one position for international investment stock in Europe;
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Open markets, building a trade framework with new and existing partners which is free and fair;
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Use trade and investment to underpin the government’s agenda for a Global Britain and its ambitions for prosperity, stability and security worldwide.
Its fifth enabling objective is to:
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Build DIT as an effective international economic department where our people are expert, enterprising, engaged and inclusive.
DIT delivers these through a wide range of activities, products and digital services designed to help businesses take full advantage of global opportunities, helping them to succeed internationally as the UK shapes its own trade agenda and takes its place on the world stage as a great, global trading nation.
Further information on the Department for International Trade can be found here.
About Government Finance
Mike Driver
Head of Government Finance Function
The UK Government is responsible for over £750 billion expenditure a year, managing over £1,450 billion of assets and £3,500 billion of liabilities. The committed professionals who work in Government Finance are right at the heart of this. We provide advice to Ministers and senior officials, enabling them to make critical decisions and helping to tackle some of the most complex and challenging problems that affect the whole country and the communities we live in. Our ambition is to ensure finance is at the heart of decision-making across Government.
Government Finance employs some of the country’s most talented people, who are motivated by the variety and range of roles, and our ability to make a difference to society. This diversity of roles enables our people to have varied and fulfilling careers, providing opportunities for moves between departments and finance specialisms, allowing people to develop and shape their careers. We are committed to supporting our people to build their careers and achieve their potential, providing a range of opportunities to develop professional skills, build capability and develop careers across the function.
Formal Learning and Development opportunities are offered through the Government Finance Academy (GFA). The GFA brings together a comprehensive and consistent offer for all Government Finance professionals to help identify and access learning and development that will help build skills, and support our people to meet their aspirations. Beyond the formal learning offer, Government Finance is committed to providing wider opportunities for personal development through coaching and mentoring opportunities and career planning tools.
Best wishes,
Mike
The role of the Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission has three primary functions:
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To provide assurance that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. For the most senior posts in the Civil Service, the Commission discharges its responsibilities directly by overseeing the recruitment process and by a Commissioner chairing the selection panel.
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To hear and determine appeals made by civil servants under the Civil Service Code which sets out the Civil Service values – Honesty, Integrity, Impartiality and Objectivity – and forms part of the relationship between civil servants and their employer.
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Civil Service Commissioners chair selection panels for all external recruitment competitions at Senior Civil Service Pay Band 2 (Directors), Pay Band 3 (Director General) and Permanent Secretary levels. An external competition is one that is advertised outside the Civil Service and candidates who are not existing civil servants may apply.