Every day the Department for Work and Pensions improves the lives of millions of people throughout the UK and many who now live abroad. We help them to find work, pay their pensions and benefits, safeguard their health and safety, defend their interests and champion their rights.

We are seeking to recruit policy advisers and economists to help deliver this work.

Successful candidates would become established civil servants and would work initially in our Work, Welfare and Equality Group, one of the department’s two policy groups that advise our Ministers. The Group employs about a thousand policy experts, economists, statisticians and researchers, and is responsible for:

• Policy advice to Ministers on a wide range of issues including employment programmes; strategy for design and performance of the benefit system; tackling poverty, including child poverty; and achieving equality for disabled people.
• Working with the department’s delivery agencies to turn policy commitments into delivery;
• Commissioning employment programmes such as the New Deals which are delivered by private and voluntary sector organisations;
• Sponsoring a range of non departmental bodies including the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, the Health and Safety Executive and the Independent Living Fund

These roles offer fantastic opportunities to work at the centre of the policymaking process, advising Ministers, gathering and applying evidence of what works, engaging with stakeholders within and outside Government, and with delivery organisations, like Jobcentre Plus, to help make policies deliver for people around the UK.

Now is a great time to join the Department. Our work is as central as ever to improving the lives of people across the country, including some of our most disadvantaged people.

Your contribution could make a real difference!