Engagement Manager

Job summary

Working at HM Treasury puts you at the heart of government, making a difference to the UK economy and ultimately to people’s lives right across the UK.

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Job description

We’re recruiting for an Engagement Manager to join OFSI’s Industry Engagement Team.

OFSI plays a vital role at the heart of the UK’s financial sanctions, working on fast-moving, high-profile and internationally significant issues. As the sanctions landscape continues to evolve, businesses in the UK and around the world need clear, timely and practical engagement to help them understand and comply with UK financial sanctions.

Reporting to the Deputy Head of Industry Engagement, you will work to deliver a varied and outward-facing programme of work connecting OFSI with the businesses and sectors responsible for implementing financial sanctions. You will help ensure industry receives clear and practical engagement, while supporting senior colleagues to understand the issues, risks and opportunities being raised by external stakeholders.

The role is broad, varied and highly collaborative. You will help deliver OFSI’s industry engagement work by playing a key role in driving forward our ambitious events programme, managing relationships with firms and sectors, and leading innovative targeted communications campaigns. You will work closely with colleagues across OFSI, including policy, legal, licensing, enforcement and strategic communications teams, to provide high-quality support to businesses and senior leaders.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop strong stakeholder engagement, communications and relationship management skills while working on some of the most important policy issues facing government. You will be supported to build your expertise in financial sanctions policy and government communications, including through the Government Communications Service Advance Practitioner development programme.

Key responsibilities:

• Play a key role in delivering OFSI’s ambitious global events programme in support of our strategy, helping to scope new events, consider invitations and prepare high-quality briefing for Senior Civil Servants and other principals. You will ensure senior colleagues are well prepared for external engagements, through accurate briefing with clear advice on the audience, key issues, handling points and opportunities to strengthen OFSI’s relationships with industry, along with working closely with other colleagues across the ECAS directorate to ensure cohesion of messaging. You will also have opportunities to attend events, represent OFSI externally at networking sessions, and build strong relationships with external stakeholders.
• Build, maintain, and own a portfolio of relationships with firms and sectors, working with stakeholders over time to understand their businesses, the issues they are facing and the support they need from OFSI to increase their sanctions’ compliance. You will build trusted and constructive relationships, act as a regular point of contact, collect evidence and feedback, and help firms navigate financial sanctions issues by drawing on the right expertise from across OFSI.
• Lead engagement casework across a range of sectors and issues, responding to complex or sensitive policy questions from businesses and other external stakeholders. This will involve understanding the issue quickly, coordinating input from policy, legal, licensing, enforcement or operational colleagues, and producing clear, pragmatic responses that help firms understand OFSI’s position.
• Lead innovative targeted engagement campaigns: working to raise awareness, communicate changes, improve understanding among specific sectors or stakeholder groups, and use stakeholder insight from these campaigns to inform internal analysis. You will help define the audience, messages, products and channels for these campaigns, working closely with teams such as Strategic Communications to make effective use of digital tools, innovative platforms and creative approaches to reach the right people in the right way.
• Support responses to sanctions-related Freedom of Information requests and other statutory obligations by gathering information, drafting clear and concise lines, and coordinating input from relevant OFSI teams. This may include supporting mailbox handling, helping the Industry Engagement Team respond to external queries where needed, and ensuring effective record-keeping in OFSI’s repository systems.

This role does not have line management responsibility, but you may be expected to matrix manage within the team.

The role will involve regular travel to London, with occasional travel elsewhere in the UK. This will depend on our events and engagements but will not be expected more than once monthly.

If candidates require reasonable adjustments during the application process, or online test process, please allow sufficient time (at least 5 working days prior to the job closing date) to request support, to allow us to support candidates as best as possible. Please note that there is no candidate support from Friday 5pm until Monday 9am.

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.

Friday 28th August 2026 @ 11:00 – 11:30 Join the meeting here

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact: [email removed]

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Person specification

Pre-Application Online Test

Prior to submitting your application, you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Online Test relevant to the role. Once you start your application you will receive an email invitation with details on how to proceed and you w