The UK government is hiring a recent negotiator to assist deliver a “reset” of relations with Europe.

The job posting says the role will navigator the government’s connection with the European Union and negotiations with the EU “on key UK interests”, with mentions of trade, safety and border policy.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has committed to a “reset” of relations between the UK and EU, and previously said he would seek a better deal on trade than the one negotiated by Boris Johnson in late 2020.

However, the prime minister has said that resetting does not cruel reversing Brexit.

The recent negotiator role is advertised as “a high-profile elder position that will receive significant community scrutiny and political attention” in the job posting published online by the Cabinet Office.

The Second Permanent Secretary for European Union and International Economic Affairs would act as a “sherpa” – “a elder and personal representative of the prime minister at international summits and engagements”.

The person would be required to oversee and navigator policy advancement on trade, including the Windsor Framework, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, the Entry and Exit Scheme – a recent upcoming digital EU border scheme – and other border policy questions.

The salary range is £153,000 to £200,000.

A spokesperson for the Cabinet Office said: “As we reset our connection with the EU, building closer trade and safety links and encouraging more property from around the globe, this recent role will oversee that work.”

“Reporting to the minister for European Union relations, they will navigator official-level discussions with the EU as we drive financial expansion.”

Starmer has said he wants to strengthen relations with the EU.

In October, he made his first visit to Brussels since becoming prime minister, where he was welcomed warmly by EU fee President Ursula von der Leyen.

Starmer called for closer co-operation on defence and safety, climate transformation, irregular migration, and on delivering financial expansion to assist make Brexit work in the UK’s gain, he said.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s elder economic advisor Stephen Moore told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme last week that the UK “has to choose between the Europe economic model of more socialism and the US model which is more based on a free enterprise structure.”

He said the UK is “caught in the middle”, but believed “Britain would be better off moving towards more of the American model of economic liberty and if that were the case, I ponder it would spur the Trump administration’s willingness to do the free trade agreement with the UK”.