Director General (Economics and Chief Economic Adviser) - HM Treasury - SCS3

The post-holder will:

• act as principal adviser to the Chancellor, Prime Minister and Treasury Ministers on the macroeconomy, fiscal policy and growth, as well as the macroeconomic and microeconomic implications of wider policy issues;
• lead the Treasury's relationships with the monetary and markets side of the Bank of England (including attendance at the Monetary Policy Committee and acting as Accounting Officer for the Reserves), the Office for Budget Responsibility, the Debt Management Office and its relations with the markets, and international institutions including the IMF, the OECD (as they relate to the UK economy) and chair the G20 Framework Working group;
• provide strong leadership to two Treasury Groups, compromising 200 staff, and collectively to the whole department as a member of EMB, alongside their Director General and Permanent Secretary colleagues;
• champion economics in government as head of the Government Economic Service (GES), acting as a credible and authentic leader within the economics field, and provide professional leadership for economists and analysts across HM Treasury, and for the economic analyses they undertake.

The post-holder reports directly to the Permanent Secretary.