Campaigns and public affairs manager jobs near Islington, Greater London

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and passionate team working to ensure that no child in the UK starts the day too hungry to learn.

Following our new CEO, Lindsey MacDonald joining us in November 2021 we undertook a review of our organisational structure which led to the creation of Policy and Engagement Team, combining our policy, communications, campaigning and research functions in one team. Following this and the recent appointment of Jacquie Bance de Vasquez, Director of Policy and Engagement we have developed a new strategy and restructuring and expanding the team to meet the challenge of ending morning hunger for now, and for good, enable us to better leverage and build on our social impact, engagement, and influencing.

Purpose of the role

The Policy & Public Affairs team work to influence the devolved legislatures and Westminster to address the underlying systemic causes of child poverty & hunger and drive change through policy. 

We are seeking a talented individual with an in depth understanding of UK political context, parliamentary processes and structures within the Westminster and the devolved legislatures including experience of building relationships with politicians.

This post offers the exciting opportunity to manage relationships and communications with our target political audiences in England, influencing and advocating to enable  to Magic Breakfast to secure policy changes to eliminate child morning hunger.

Hunter Merrifield are pleased to support a fantastic health focused membership body, to find a Public Affairs and Campaign Adviser to promote the membership body through parliamentary, public affairs and campaigning activity. The post holder will join at a unique time as they campaign for recovery and rebuild of services.

Job Title: Public Affairs and Campaigns Adviser
Organisation: Health Membership body
Salary: £41,414 - £48,422 per annum
Location: London (1-2 days a week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Closing date: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Required: CV and Cover Letter

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with great understanding of production of targeted briefings, arranging meetings at Westminster, and coordinating activities with key healthcare, trade union and sector partners.

Main responsibilities:
 

• Maintain and develop constructive relationships with politicians, researchers and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for day-to-day monitoring of parliamentary and policy activity across the UK to identify opportunities for lobbying and provide intelligence to colleagues and officers.
• Work with the Public Affairs Manager on the design and delivery of campaigning activities that serve to develop relationships with political stakeholders and to engage the membership in lobbying work, leading on specific campaigns as required.
• Develop policy plans for engaging with stakeholders in Westminster, Cardiff, Holyrood and Stormont, engaging elected officers and Association members in their formulation and local and national lobbying work to accompany their development.
• Identify opportunities to mobilise members to enhance public affairs activity, while communicating the value of the work undertaken by the post-holder in communications to members.
• Ensure that the needs of political audiences are clearly reflected in the work  undertaken by colleagues engaged in work on media, policy, research, etc.

Person Specification:
 

• Experience of working in Parliament (or one of the devolved nation’s assemblies) or in a parliamentary or public affairs role.
• Understanding of and interest in the contemporary political environment and the workings and decision-making structures of government and UK policymaking processes.
• Confidence engaging directly with political stakeholders at a range of levels, on a cross party basis.
• Experience of coordinating briefings, meetings and other activity at Westminster including running events.
• Excellent relationship-building and communications skills, including strong writing and editing for a range of audiences.
• Ability to quickly synthesise information from a variety of sources identifying key issues, and present complex and technical ideas to lay audiences.

To find out more and apply for the role, please contact Stuart Milliner at Hunter Merrifield.

The National Deaf Children’s Society is the leading charity dedicated to creating a world without barriers for deaf children and young people.

Campaigns Officer

London office/ hybrid or home-based within travel distance to London

£29,551 - £34,526 per annum (London office)

£26,994 - £31,965 (home-based)

35 hours per week

Permanent

Please note that recruitment information in BSL is available on our Careers site, see tab: Recruitment information in BSL.

Are you passionate, outgoing and enthusiastic about creating real change for deaf children?

The education system that supports deaf children is changing - so there’s never been a more important time to use your campaigning skills to help us make a difference!

We’re looking for someone who is confident both using digital tools to mobilise campaigners, and able to motivate campaigners face to face. Our campaigns involve those with lived experience of deafness at every stage and we strive to support families and young people to create the changes they want to see.

You’ll work with a passionate team, families of deaf children, and deaf young people themselves, to deliver creative and winning campaigns.

To apply for this role, you will have to complete an online application and specify how you meet the person specification criteria, as outlined in the job description. To do this, we suggest that you download the job description from our website prior to starting your application.

Currently, the application process works best on desktop / laptop devices.

We welcome applications in BSL. If you would like to apply by BSL video, please contact us as soon as possible but at least five working days before the closing date so we can discuss the process with you.

The closing date for applications is on Sunday, 21 August at 23:59.

We expect interviews to be held in London (online on request) on Tuesday and Wednesday, 30 and 31 August.

We reserve the right to close the response cut-off date for the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

The National Deaf Children’s Society is committed to increasing opportunities for people from under-represented groups. To achieve this, we are taking Positive Action, as is allowed of employers under the steps outlined in sections 158 and 159 of the Equality Act 2010.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, in particular those that are currently under-represented in our workforce. This includes, but is not limited to deaf and disabled people, Black, Asian, and other ethnic groups, especially within our management roles.

The National Deaf Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young adults and expects staff and volunteers to share that commitment.

A disclosure check will be sought in relation to the successful applicant for this post. This will be shared with Human Resources and may also be shared with the Safeguarding Manager and the relevant management team. All applicants must also complete a self-disclosure form.

We strive to provide an accessible recruitment process. If a disability or long-term condition makes it difficult for you to complete our application form, please contact us to discuss alternative formats. If you require reasonable adjustments for taking part in the interview, please indicate this in response to the corresponding question in the application form.

Additional information about the support we offer is on our jobs page.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and committed to offering interviews to candidates who request to be considered under the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum requirements of the person specification.

We are committed to flexible working in order that colleagues can effectively balance their work and family commitments.

As part of the recruitment process, candidates will be asked to declare and explain their gaps in employment. All our offers of employment are subject to pre-employment checks – these checks include but are not limited to references, right to work in the UK, disclosure (if applicable) and qualifications (if applicable).

The National Deaf Children’s Society is a registered charity in England and Wales (1016532) and in Scotland (SC040779).

Overview and Summary:

We are seeking to appoint a part-time Campaign Officer (0.8 FTE) on a 12-month contract – a crucial role for our more than 60-strong coalition during a vital period for our work. 

We’re in the middle of a steadily building campaign that spans political advocacy, public communications and engagement with businesses, targeted towards ensuring the introduction of what our coalition calls a UK ‘Business, Human Rights and Environment Act’. This role will play a central role in shaping and driving forward the campaign, working alongside our civil society group partners to do so.

We are a broad coalition, including NGOs, trade unions and law firms, and spanning a range of political and thematic priorities, spanning workers’ rights and modern slavery, to climate and the environment, global justice and the rights of women and girls, children and indigenous peoples. But what brings us together is a shared commitment to improving corporate accountability for human rights abuses and environmental destruction: in line with this, collaborative work for change alongside our partners is at the heart of all we do.

While it’s fundamental that you have a minimum of two years’ experience of working in campaigns/the not-for-profit sector, and we want you to be a skilled writer, we’re keen to hear from candidates with different skill sets. If you’d like to have a chat about the role ahead of applying, please do feel free to get in touch with.

Please note, applicants must hold the right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

CJC is an equal opportunities employer committed to refining anti-oppressive practises in its work. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in the business and human rights sector. 

What we’re looking for

First and foremost, we’re looking for someone who is highly motivated and has a real commitment  to campaign for change on corporate accountability for human rights abuses.  You’ll be enthusiastic and full of ideas, able to juggle multiple deadlines and tasks, while being ready to show initiative and take ownership of your area of work. 

You don’t need to be a policy expert on our issues, but you’ll need to have the ability to rapidly gain an understanding of what we work on and why. And you’ll need to be a confident and skilled writer who’s equally happy writing tweets, drafting scripts for social media videos and writing press releases and comment/analysis for media outlets.

Facilitating joint work alongside our coalition partners is fundamental to everything we do, so we’re looking for someone who already has experience of working in the not-for-profit sector - whether in the UK charity sector or elsewhere - and who will be at ease regularly communicating with other organisations and facilitating meetings which can have multiple  organisations in attendance.

Our work spans engagement with politicians, the public, journalists, academics, lawyers and businesses. So you’ll need to be adaptable and able to work with such a wide variety of stakeholders.

You will be the main point of contact for our partner organisations working on this campaign, so it’s crucial that you’re comfortable with and enjoy collaborative work with others. We need someone who recognises and understands the value of civil society groups working together effectively, and relishes the opportunity of being a key enabler of such coalition work.

This is a crucial, very busy, outward-facing role in a small organisation seeking to make big changes. The role offers a huge opportunity to play a key role in a growing campaign with the potential to secure a meaningful change in UK legislation.

Please see attachment for more details.

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Permanent

Grade AL, Salary £74,460 per annum

Location: Euston Square, London

Closing Date: 5.00pm on Wednesday 17 August 2022

Interview Date: 1st interviews on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 August 2022

The Royal College of General Practitioners is the professional body for GPs with over 53,000 members worldwide. Our purpose is to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice. We advocate on behalf of GPs, their wider teams and patients at the highest levels, and promote the crucial role of general practice in the NHS.

The Assistant Director of Policy, Research and Campaigns is accountable for the strategic development and implementation of the College’s policy, research, and campaigns programmes. Overseeing around 15 staff, the role is responsible for ensuring that the College represents the views of its members to policy makers and opinion formers at the highest levels and shapes the future of general practice and the wider NHS.

This is an exciting opportunity for an inspiring leader with a strong track record of policy innovation and high-level influencing. You will be adept at driving delivery within a complex and fast changing organisational environment and will work closely with the Chair of Council to ensure that the contribution of general practice and the work of GPs is recognised and valued in the health and wider political landscape. You will play a key role in engaging with senior stakeholders, developing the general practice evidence base, and supporting innovation and research.

You will be expected to be an active member of the College’s senior management team, sharing corporate accountability for the achievement of strategic and business plans, acting as a role model demonstrating the College’s values in action and encouraging a positive working culture.

The successful candidate will share our corporate values. In return, the College offers excellent terms and conditions.

Please download the Candidate Pack on the RCGP website to view the full job description.

To apply, please apply directly on the RCGP website and upload your CV and cover letter.

The Royal College of General Practitioners is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

                                         ~ Putting members at the heart of everything we do ~

Charity People is delighted to be partnering with a fantastic, independent charity dedicated to giving disadvantaged children the literacy skills the need to succeed in their search for two new Campaigns Officers! Now is an exciting time to be joining the organisation and these posts are available because of team expansion and internal promotion.

Post Two Campaign Officer roles, 18 month contract positions with the intention that they will become permanent roles within the organisation

Location The charity offers a very flexible approach to working and this role can be undertaken fully remotely or on a hybrid basis between home and the London office. If working fully remotely the postholders will need to be able to get to the charity's "hub" locations on occasion - these are in Blackpool, Black Country, Bradford, Birmingham, Doncaster, Hastings, Manchester, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Coast, Nottingham, Peterborough, Stoke, Suffolk and Swindon

Working Hours Full time with flexibility around working patterns

Salary £27,500

One person in six has poor literacy skills that impact on every area of their life. A child without good reading, writing and communication skills will struggle to succeed at school, and as an adult they could be locked out of the job market. Poverty doubles the likelihood that, by the age of five, a child's literacy skills will be below average.

This fantastic organisation gives children and young people from disadvantaged communities the literacy skills to succeed in life. They work with schools and other education settings, with communities and partners, and directly with children and families. Their research and analysis make them the leading authority on literacy and drive their interventions.

Now has never been a more important time to jump aboard because research shows that during the initial school closures in 2020, 3 in 5 children and young people said that reading made them feel better; 3 in 10 said that reading helped when they feel sad because they couldn't see their friends!

As Campaigns Officer, you will be responsible for delivering communications and behaviour change campaigns in the charity's hubs and other target areas.

Additional key responsibilities within the role will be as follows:

• Build relationships and work with local partners including schools, libraries, early years settings, business, authors and illustrators, cultural and sporting partners and key local figures
• Plan and deliver community events, initiatives and activations with partners, reaching local stakeholders and families
• Work with Hub Managers and Campaigns Manager to understand Hub goals and target audiences, and develop, tailor and disseminate campaign messaging
• Work with the research team to conduct appropriate consultation to develop key messaging using behavioural science frameworks
• Plan and deliver a regular content schedule for Hub social media pages (Facebook or Instagram), working alongside the Hub Manager and national content team
• Build partnerships with local media (including broadcast, online, print, education and parenting) in Hub areas
• Write press releases, articles and quotes, working closely with media partners to deliver coverage containing key campaign messaging
• Conduct consultation and focus groups to test messaging with target audience when planning and developing all campaign activity
• Compile weekly roundup of internal highlights to send to colleagues;

Along with many more tasks that will pique your interest in this varied and busy role.

We'd love to see applications from people with the following skills and experience:

• Planning, implementing and evaluating campaigns
• Developing key messages aimed at changing consumer behaviours
• Managing digital and social media accounts
• Excellent working knowledge of Twitter and Facebook

• Experience of working in the charity/education/wellbeing or cultural sector desirable

This is the perfect role for someone keen with Assistant or Officer / Executive level experience to continue to develop their career. It's also a great position for someone with bags of experience to work really closely with disadvantaged communities and see a real tangible different to peoples lives because of their campaigns.

So, if you're a strong communicator with a flair for the creative; a highly organised team player with strong administrative skills; and are hungry for your next challenge, please reach out today!

If you'd like to be considered for this role please send your CV to [email protected] or call on 07563 030587 to have an initial chat about the position.

Deadline for applications: Monday 25^th July

Interviews: 4^th and 5^th August

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Please note, due to the number of applications we receive we aren't always able to respond to unsuccessful candidates.

Fixed Term Contract (12 months) 
Full time (34.5 hours) - we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Split between home and our London Office 
National: £28,500 - £32,500
London: £32,000 - £36,000

Are you interested in UK politics? Do you want to deliver change for people living with cancer? Want to work with an award-winning Public Affairs team at one of the UK’s most respected and best loved charities? If so, this could be the role for you. 

About the role

As a Public Affairs Adviser, you’ll be responsible for engaging with Parliamentarians, taking the lead on day-to-day parliamentary activity and planning high-quality events so we can deliver change for people living with cancer.

You’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills and experience with an award-winning Public Affairs team. This role is a fixed term contract for 12 months.

This role is ‘dual location’ – working from home, with 1 - 2 days a week at our headquarters in Vauxhall, London. The working hours are 34.5 hours a week but with flexibility on start and finish times and other working pattern options.

About you

• You’ll have good knowledge of the current political and parliamentary landscape
• You’ll have strong communications skills – including an ability to communicate with a range of audiences, from politicians, volunteers, senior colleagues and people with lived experience
• Your organisational, planning and prioritisation skills will be essential, as well as an ability to work to tight deadlines when needed
• Ideally you will have experience of working or volunteering in a political or public affairs environment

About us
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to be their best self to work.

We welcome applications from everyone who meets the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another ethnic minority background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan People Services Team for advice and recruitment adjustments. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example, she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs).

Recruitment Process
The application deadline is 23:59 Wednesday 10 August, with virtual interviews taking place w/c 22 August.

In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience.

Job Title: Public Affairs and Campaign Officer (Midlands)

Region: Midlands/Remote

Directorate: Campaigns, Policy and Research

Contract: 11 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £25,813 - £29,500 per annum pro rata

The Role

At the Royal British Legion, we believe in building on potential. As a Public Affairs and Campaign Officer, covering the Midlands region, your ability to establish a visible and vocal campaigning presence at community and local authority level across the Midlands of England, building relationships with key stakeholders and maximising our influence, could have a real impact on people’s lives.

At its heart, RBL is a people organisation. People who want to do the very best for others, while at the same time making the most of the opportunities and experiences we offer them.

We are the country’s largest Armed Forces charity, with 210,000 members, 50,000 volunteers and a network of partners and charities; helping us give support wherever and whenever it’s needed.

As a Public Affairs and Campaign Officer, you will be responsible for reporting on local policy developments and welfare trends, organise campaign events across the region, and help to establish a network of supporters locally who are willing to advocate on behalf of the Armed Forces community.

If successful, the main duties of your role will be:

• Establishing a visible and vocal campaigning presence at community and local authority level across the Midlands of England.
• Building relationships with key stakeholders and maximising our influence in this increasingly important area of decision-making.
• Reporting on local policy developments and welfare trends and organise campaign events across the region.
• Help to establish a network of supporters locally.
• You will be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of local government and community activism and be familiar with both traditional and digital campaigning techniques.
• You will be a strong team player, have a proven track record of delivering campaign outcomes.

Please note that this role can be either based at our Birmingham office or remote. Candidates have the flexibility to choose and this will be discussed further at interview stage.

About the Royal British Legion

Across the country, in every city and on every street, RBL is there to support our Armed Forces community.

It's this mission, this scale, this challenge and the values we all live by, that makes the RBL such a fulfilling place to thrive.

If you want to give your days meaning. To put your passion into a role with real impact. To support people and be supported yourself. In an inclusive team that faces every challenge together. Whatever your interests and ambitions, whatever your background, we think you’ll find a role here that works for you, with career opportunities right across the UK.

Diversity Statement

We believe that the compassion, understanding, and service we show each and every individual should be reflected in the way we all support, respect, and include every individual who works with us. We want everyone involved in our work or receiving our services, to feel proud to contribute to or be part of a diverse and inclusive organisation.

We recognise that we still have a long way to go to ensure that we make the RBL a truly great and inclusive organisation to work for and be part of so we have set out our commitments to provide a clear path to deliver this ambition. We will keep listening, learning, and sharing our progress and impact.

How to Apply

Please click ‘Apply Online’

Closing date for this role is: 14th August

We reserve the right to close this vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.

Prospectus is delighted to be working with Kinship, the leading kinship care charity in England and Wales, to recruit a Policy and Public Affairs Manager who will play a pivotal role in enabling Kinship to secure significant changes to policy legislation in line with their mission.

Kinship's mission is to provide support to all kinship carers - the grandparents and siblings, the aunts, uncles, and family friends who step up to raise children when their parents can't. Kinship works to inform, support and empower all kinship carers, providing tailored support (both in home and community settings), and connecting carers via their national community and local support groups.

The main responsibilities of this role include developing policy positions that are rooted in Kinship's insights and evidence to secure tangible and transformative changes to policy and practice. You will produce policy position papers, briefings and reports for key decision makers, government officials and politicians. You will project manage Kinship's two annual surveys, represent the organisation at events, and draft responses to policy consultations. You will also help develop the organisation's influencing and external affairs strategy, monitor parliamentary activity and identify areas for influencing.

To be successful as a Policy and Public Affairs Manager, you will have demonstrable experience of policy development and delivering policy and/or public affairs initiatives. You will have a track record of integrating policy and public affairs work for maximum impact and be an excellent project manager, able to build strong relationships with various people at all levels. Overall, you will have great understanding of UK political systems, an ability to create focussed and ambitious influencing strategies.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice we are committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We invest in your journey as a candidate and are committed to supporting you in your application.

In order to apply, simply submit your CV and begin preparing a cover letter explaining why you would make a good fit for the role. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and arrange for a call to discuss the role further.

Dogs Trust is the UK’s largest dog welfare charity and normally cares for around 14,000 dogs across its network of 21 rehoming centres in the UK and one in Dublin.

The Public Affairs Team works across Westminster, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the EU, to ensure the health and welfare of dogs is always taken into consideration by policy makers. In addition to our direct political engagement, Dogs Trust chairs the Pet Advertising Advisory Group (PAAG) which aims to combat growing concerns regarding the irresponsible advertising of pets for sale, rehoming, and exchange. We also provide the secretariat for the EU Dog & Cat Alliance, through which we engage with EU policy makers, and call for EU action to build a better Europe for dogs and cats.

This administrative role will support the work of our ambitious public affairs work programme across Westminster and Whitehall, the devolved administrations and in the EU. This role also supports the management of the Pet Advertising Advisory Group (PAAG) and the EU Dog & Cat Alliance, both of which our team provides the secretariat for, as well as supporting our wider UK public affairs work.

This role is very busy, and the successful applicant will require the ability to remain calm under pressure, with a flexible but methodical approach and able to change direction quickly. It is important that the candidate is able to work as part of a team, but also able to work unsupervised and use their own initiative as appropriate.

Working hours are 9am to 5pm and while based in the London Office we operate ona hybrid model where you will split your time between office and homeworking. Occasional flexibility is necessary plus travel and overnight stays when required.

An interest and sympathy for the aims of Dogs Trust is essential and the post holder must be comfortable around dogs.

We are proud to be partnering with a great charity that provides support to people who are struggling financially. We are working together to find an outstanding Policy & Public Affairs Manager. It is a full time and temporary role.

The Policy & Public Affairs Manager will develop and lead on the charity's policy insight, public affairs and advocacy programme of activity and campaigns research. You will provide in depth insight into the campaigning work of other organisations within the sector and communicate back to key colleagues within the charity through a regular update or reporting mechanism. You will monitor changes in policy, legislation and social climate which could affect the lives of people living on a low income and regulated consumer service. You will devise and implement strategies and plans to target key parliamentarians and influencers across the UK. You will manage staff intranet and help organise key internal communication material, report and events to help translate the external facing work to an internal facing audience. You will have to ensure consistent branding, messaging, framing and tone of voice is used in all materials.

You will need a strong understanding of policy research and analysis techniques and the ability to gather and research information from a broad range of sources. You will have the ability to lead in the development and implementation of policy and public affairs strategy development. You will need to have the knowledge of facilitation and deliberative techniques for co- producing policy. Also, you will be a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual with the ability to work independently.

As a specialist Recruitment Practice, Prospectus is committed to building inclusive and diverse organisations, and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

In order to apply please submit your CV in the first instance. Should your experience be suitable, we will send you the full job description and will arrange for a call to brief you on the role.

Campaigns Officer, 18 Month Contract
Children's Charity
£27,5000

Charity People is delighted to be partnering with a fantastic, independent charity dedicated to giving disadvantaged children the literacy skills the need to succeed in their search for a Campaigns Officer.

The Charity offers a very flexible approach to working and this role can be undertaken fully remotely or on a hybrid basis between home and the London office. If working fully remotely the postholders will need to be able to get to the charity's "hub" locations on occasion - these are in Blackpool, Black Country, Bradford, Birmingham, Doncaster, Hastings, Manchester, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Coast, Nottingham, Peterborough, Stoke, Suffolk and Swindon
Working Hours Full time with flexibility around working patterns

One person in six has poor literacy skills that impact on every area of their life. A child without good reading, writing and communication skills will struggle to succeed at school, and as an adult they could be locked out of the job market. Poverty doubles the likelihood that, by the age of five, a child's literacy skills will be below average.

This fantastic organisation gives children and young people from disadvantaged communities the literacy skills to succeed in life. They work with schools and other education settings, with communities and partners, and directly with children and families. Their research and analysis make them the leading authority on literacy and drive their interventions.

The Role

• Build relationships and work with local partners including schools, libraries, early years settings, business, authors and illustrators, cultural and sporting partners and key local figures
• Plan and deliver community events, initiatives and activations with partners, reaching local stakeholders and families
• Work with Hub Managers and Campaigns Manager to understand Hub goals and target audiences, and develop, tailor and disseminate campaign messaging
• Work with the research team to conduct appropriate consultation to develop key messaging using behavioural science frameworks
• Plan and deliver a regular content schedule for Hub social media pages (Facebook or Instagram), working alongside the Hub Manager and national content team
• Build partnerships with local media (including broadcast, online, print, education and parenting) in Hub areas
• Write press releases, articles and quotes, working closely with media partners to deliver coverage containing key campaign messaging
• Conduct consultation and focus groups to test messaging with target audience when planning and developing all campaign activity
• Compile weekly roundup of internal highlights to send to colleagues

Along with many more tasks that will pique your interest in this varied and busy role.

We'd love to see applications from people with the following skills and experience:

• Planning, implementing and evaluating campaigns
• Developing key messages aimed at changing consumer behaviours
• Managing digital and social media accounts
• Excellent working knowledge of Twitter and Facebook
• Experience of working in the charity/education/wellbeing or cultural sector desirable

This is the perfect role for someone keen with Marketing Assistant or Marketing Officer / Executive level experience to continue to develop their career. It's also a great position for someone with bags of experience to work really closely with disadvantaged communities and see a real tangible different to peoples lives because of their campaigns.

Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), race, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.

Policy and Public Affairs Officer - Devolved Nations

Department: Engagement & Influencing Reports to: Policy and Public Affairs Manager

Salary range: £29,000 - 33,000

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: homebased and / or Hybrid

About the role

Resuscitation Council UK’s Engagement and Influencing department delivers creative communications and authentic engagement activities that support the organisation’s Vision to 2030. Our audiences include health and social care professionals, members of the public, charities, professional bodies and associations, UK policy makers and campaigns groups.

The Policy and Public Affairs Officer will drive the organisation’s engagement and policy work in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland during an important period of growth in the organisation’s external relations, engagement and influencing function.

This is a key strategic liaison role that will work closely with the Policy and Public Affairs Manager and support the Director of Engagement and Influencing to enable delivery of the commitments in the organisation’s Nations and Regions Strategy. Specifically, this role will have lead accountability for the organisation’s stakeholder engagement programme in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales influencing policy debate, contributing to building internal capacity on devolved and regional issues and building key relationships vital to our Survivor and ReSPECT campaigning activity.

You will play an integral role in managing internal and external relationships with a variety of important individuals and organisations, such as MPs, Local Authorities NGOs, and peers from our resus community. Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to develop and deliver a strategic programme of engagement across Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

What you will need to succeed

• A proven track record of public policy experience, with a working level understanding of devolution, and how the devolved Parliaments operate.

• Experience with developing and influencing relationships with both internal and external stakeholders across all levels of seniority, including developing partnerships for collaboration on joint initiatives, projects and/or events.

• Demonstrable verbal and written communication skills including drafting documents and briefings for internal and external use, designed for a wide variety of audiences.

• Demonstrable evidence of supporting the delivery of business priorities and delivering stakeholder engagement plans using insight data to help shape those plans.

This is a new role, and we are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-looking project manager interested in developing the strategic and operational management of the local member support structure in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. We are also looking for someone to lead our policy work around our Survivor workstream UK wide.

A flexible approach to working hours is necessary as there are some evening meetings in various locations and, with occasional travel possibility elsewhere in the UK, although many of them take place virtually.

As well as being a positive team player, proactive and an excellent communicator, you will be able to work with and motivate staff and volunteers from a distance.

Experience of working within a membership-based organisation is desirable, as is an understanding of the current health landscape.

About Resuscitation Council UK

Resuscitation Council UK is saving lives by developing guidelines, influencing policy, delivering courses and supporting cutting-edge research. Through education, training, and research, we’re working towards the day when everyone in the country has the skills they need to save a life.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Influence policy and legislation to ensure that across the devolved nations everyone has the skills to save a life.

• Develop, deliver, and evaluate strategies for specific areas of policy and stakeholder engagement work, including influencing decision-makers, building, and strengthening support among key regional and National stakeholders in the devolved nations.

• Lead on a number of policy and stakeholder events and activities, which could include in-depth research and writing of policy analyses.

• Write Parliamentary questions; briefings for parliamentary debates; briefings for individual MPs and internal briefings as and when needed.

• Rally MPs / and or Peers to support any amendments to Bills.

• Collaborate with colleagues to identify and prepare proactive and reactive policy communications.

• Develop and oversee the effective monitoring of parliamentary activity in the devolved nations.

• Build new relationships and strengthen existing relationships with Spads, Think Tanks, Offices of Parliamentarians, All Party Parliamentary Groups.

• Represent RCUK at a variety of conferences, meetings, and events.

• Lead the policy and political stakeholder engagement activity for our Survivors and ReSPECT workstream, guided by the Policy and Public Affairs Manager.

• Draft high-quality policy-related paperwork, such as relevant public/private consultation and inquiry responses, parliamentary briefs, media responses and official correspondence.

• Coordinate the building and maintaining of policy stakeholder relationships, including with partner organisations and other stakeholders; working to ensure that the voices of a broad intersection of communities are heard in the work we do.

• Support the Policy and Public Affairs Manager as directed and Media Relations Manager with policy angles for media and campaigning activity in the Devolved Nations.

• Support the organisation’s equity, diversity, and inclusion work, displaying a genuine commitment to understanding issues faced by the diversity of communities we support.

Qualifications, Knowledge, and Experience

• Working in a communications, policy and stakeholder engagement position or similar field (E).

• Good understanding of policy making processes and political landscape (E).

• Internal and external communications / relationship building.

• Conducting research analysis, summarising findings clearly to a range of audiences (E).

• Drafting briefings, reports, and policy submissions (E).

• Collaborating with a wider communications department (D)

• Good understanding of data privacy and General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR) (D).

Personal Attributes and Skills

• Good writing, editing and proofing abilities with excellent attention to detail (E).

• Strong commitment to diversity and inclusion (E).

• Take complex information and distil into short briefings (D).

• Convey information accurately and promptly to internal and external customers (E).

• Understanding of the devolved nations parliamentary processes (D).

• Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise workloads, deal with conflicting demands and meet tight deadlines (E).

• A proactive approach, with the ability to work autonomously (E).

Flexible and adaptable; a good team player (E).

Experience of report writing (E).

Experience of organising parliamentary or stakeholder events (D).

Proven track record of public policy experience (E).

Why join RCUK

Why join us? You would be joining us at an exciting time for the organisation. In May 2021, we published our Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) Guidelines 2021. These are up-todate, expert-written, revised guidelines for best practice and clinical excellence in resuscitation. They will give people their best chance of successful outcomes from cardiac arrest or improve patient and family experience in conversations, decisions and planning for end-of-life care. We subsequently introduced updated resuscitation courses to reflect the 2021 guidance, bringing high-quality resuscitation training to over 100,000 candidates each year.

Our vision

We have also defined our vision to take us to 2030:

• Everyone should receive appropriate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment in clinical, community and care settings, underpinned by the comprehensive availability of evidence-based clinical guidelines, training, and life-long learning.

• Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest match world-leading comparators.

• Everyone affected by involvement in a Cardiac Arrest and the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation receives appropriate, personalised support.

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has become a mechanism to reduce social inequalities, not another measure of them.

Being insight driven, inclusive and diverse in everything we do, is vital to our work moving forward. We hope you will want to be part of this exciting new chapter for the organisation and our cause.

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) Policy and Public Affairs team exists to deliver meaningful change in policy and legislation to make progress towards the BHF’s ambition of a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

To do this, we engage and influence stakeholders to help ensure the UK remains a global leader in cardiovascular research and to improve outcomes for people living with and affected by heart and circulatory diseases.

As a Public Affairs Officer you’ll engage and work with Parliamentarians promoting our work at Westminster and in their individual constituencies, delivering an engagement programme to help develop the BHF's relationship with key decision-makers and proactively spotting opportunities to advance the interests of the BHF.