View Vacancy – ROK – Senior Policy Officer (Economics Team), EO

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience in any of the following: economics, finance, international development, political economy or similar. There are learning resources to upskill in this area, so if lacking, the successful candidate must demonstrate a willingness to learn.
• Data and analysis skills – intermediate Microsoft excel, ability to gather secondary data, read and interpret large datasets and synthesize into understandable information
• Understanding for the Korean corporate finance sector, particularly sustainable finance
• Experience working for or with private sector, particularly financial institutions
• Experience working for or with sector-relevant Korean ministries, think tanks, academic institutions, and NGOs.
• Experience in inter-governmental relations.
• Customer relationship and event management experience.

Learning and development opportunities:

• Thematic sector knowledge and role specific skills development – successful candidate will be required to complete Economics in Foreign Policy course (practitioner or expert level depending on existing attainment)
• Successful candidate will be expected to complete mandatory online learning courses and encouraged to pursue other relevant training opportunities.
• Additional formal learning to be agreed between successful applicant and Line Manager.

The Embassy is committed to investing in L&D for its staff, and provides a range of L&D opportunities, from learning sets to speaker events, group learning to job shadowing opportunities, as well as an extensive suite of online learning materials. Where job-specific training is identified the British Embassy will provide access to appropriate courses.

Working patterns:

The British Embassy Seoul is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We value difference, promote equality and challenge discrimination, enhancing our organisational capability. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law.

While some evening work and travel overseas (which might include weekends) and within Korea is required, we promote family-friendly flexible working opportunities, where operational and security needs allow.

Normal working hours are Monday to Friday, 09:00 – 17:15 (17:00 on Fridays). However, occasional evening and weekend working may be required, for which time off in lieu is given. The British Embassy Seoul encourages flexible working and various flexible working arrangements are possible with line manager agreement, including working from home.

This role is for 6 months with possibility of extension.

Other information:

Employment offers are subject to successful clearance of pre-employment checks.

The applicant must be eligible to work in South Korea. British Embassy Seoul does not support visa sponsorship.

Staff who are recruited by the British Embassy Seoul are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law. 

The FCDO also operates an agile workforce. To facilitate this, you may be required to undertake other duties from time to time as we may reasonably require.

Please note that your application must be submitted before 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline.”

Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.

We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered. Applicants called for an interview will be assessed on the core behaviours listed above.

All applicants are required to mandatorily fill the online application form completely including the employment and educational details, experience, professional skills and behaviour-based questions. We will be thoroughly reviewing the applications and incomplete form in any respect may not be considered while shortlisting for the next stage.
 
Only shortlisted candidates for interview will be contacted. Interviewees will be assessed on the core behaviours/qualifications listed above. Unsuccessful candidates will be notified via the system in due time. Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list’.  If during the reserve period of 6 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate.

For inclusivity and diversity, please remove the following personal information when uploading your CV: name, address, email address, age, date of birth, gender, and nationality.

The start date mentioned in the job advert is a tentative start date and the successful candidate will be required to undergo security vetting procedures. Any offer of employment will be subject to the candidate achieving suitable clearances.