This is a stretching and fast-paced role covering a diverse range of policy issues in insurance markets. Your responsibilities will range from leading the response to acute and emerging insurance issues, to financial inclusion and supporting the delivery of the commitment to grow the mutuals sector. The postholder will interact with a wide range of stakeholders including insurers and brokers, trade associations, regulators, other government departments, international colleagues and ministers.
Importantly, you dont need to be a policy professional or have any specific qualifications to apply to this role. We are looking for people who have the right set of skills for the role, who demonstrate the values of our organisation, and who are motivated to come and work with us on a range of issues that are important for our financial services sector. You will be well supported by your line management and the wider team, and opportunities to learn about the financial services sector will be provided.
Depending on your skills and experience, there may be opportunities to be involved in wider areas of the branchs work, such as supporting work to grow UK insurance markets.
Key accountabilities include:
1. Emerging issues lead our response to acute or ongoing challenges in insurance markets. This includes developing our response, often at pace, and presenting options to ministers. Recent work has included periods of crisis, including global conflicts such as Ukraine/Russia and Iran, where questions around insurance provision regularly feature.
2. Financial inclusion Work across the team to help develop our approach to financial inclusion in insurance. This includes working closely with Financial Services Group colleagues leading on the Financial Inclusion Committee and the wider financial inclusion agenda, responding to the significant Parliamentary and Ministerial focus on this agenda.
3. Life and protection insurance policy Develop knowledge and understanding of challenging life insurance policy issues (e.g. social care insurance and income protection insurance), and act as the policy lead for these areas.
4. Mutuals lead on mutual insurance, working with colleagues across Financial Services, on how to take forward policy to double the size of the mutuals sector. Lead on a live Law Commission review of the Friendly Societies legislation, build the teams knowledge and expertise on this market, and consider wider mutuals issues through an insurance lens, including working with the Department for Business and Trade, and the regulators.
5. Engagement The role will involve significant engagement with other government departments, regulators and insurance sector representatives. It will involve building strong working relationships, as well as requiring the post-holder to, at times, deliver difficult messages.
6. Briefing and correspondence - Produce high quality briefings for senior officials and ministers and lead on relevant areas of IPMs correspondence workload.
Candidate Drop-In Session
The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury, and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.
Wednesday 26th August 2026 @ 16:00 Join the meeting here
If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact Michael Allen ([email protected]
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
