Are you a confident researcher who would like to use your skills to amplify the voices and experience of Deaf and disabled people in Barnet?  Do you have your own lived experience of disability (which could include a long term condition or mental health issues)? 

We are looking for an enthusiastic self-starter to take on an exciting two year project to understand disabled people’s experience of the social care system.  Using surveys and interviews, and supported by a steering group of users who you will work with closely, you will build a picture of how much people feel the support they receive is helping them achieve independence and the outcomes they aspire to.  You’ll use that information to build reports and recommendations, culminating in a conference to share learning and hear from other areas about how to build best practice in support and co-production.

A natural relationship builder, you will be able to adjust your communication style to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, from users to senior council staff to other London DDPOs.  You’ll also be able to write clearly, persuasively and accessibly, creating reports and information that people want to read.  You’ll also be able to advocate effectively for greater co-production and make a positive case for change, sensitive to the perspective of a range of stakeholders but able to find solutions and suggestions that build user involvement.

You’ll hold overall responsibility for our user voice work, overseeing the work of our User Voice Lead and ensuring that there is effective shared learning between different projects.  Supervisory experience would therefore be an asset, but we are also open to applications from talented disabled people looking to move into their first management role.  Confidence to conduct high-quality research independently with minimal supervision is essential, however.

This is a great opportunity to create a really impactful piece of work and influence thinking on approaches to Adult Social Care.  The work is Barnet-based, but we hope it will be influential far beyond the borough.  So we’re looking for someone committed to making a difference, who will take this opportunity and help create positive change. 

In return, you will become part of a friendly and supportive team, working within a focused but flexible culture, where diversity is valued and you can bring your whole self to work.

The role is based in Colindale, but with some flexibility for homeworking days.  The role is totally home based during lockdown. 

Interviews will be in early February, with the successful candidate commencing in post 1st April. To apply, please submit your CV and a full cover letter explaining how you would use your lived experience of disability to inform your work, as well as detailing your research experience.

• Duration: Fixed term contract to March 2022
• Salary: £39,659.32 gross per annum plus 9% employer pension contribution
• Location: London, with occasional international travel
• Closing date: 5pm UK time, 11 February 2021
• Interviews: Week commencing 15 & 22 February 2021

We are looking for a Policy Manager to join our Research, Advisory and Policy Department. The successful candidate should have experience of developing and implementing policy influencing strategies in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Knowledge of counter-terrorism and sanctions legal and policy frameworks that govern peacebuilding and humanitarian action would be an advantage. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and strategic thinker to play an active role in helping Conciliation Resources to achieve its strategic goals. 

Job purpose

The Policy Manager works within the RAP Department on the achievement of policy goals in Conciliation Resources’ Strategic Plan. With the Department Director they ensure Conciliation Resources achieves sustainable outcomes in its work on counter-terrorism legislation and sanctions. They pursue uptake and impact from RAP-led research and Accord publications and support colleagues in the Gender Team and CR EU respectively to enhance policies on gender, peace and security and mediation and peacebuilding at EU level. They improve policy advocacy strategy and impact across the organisation. They ensure that CR’s voice and objectives are reflected in joint advocacy with NGO networks.

The post holder is an in-house expert in policy change and influencing strategies. They bring knowledge of the workings of international institutions and policies that shape peacebuilding. They understand debates around counter-terrorism legislation and sanctions and how they affect humanitarian aid and peacebuilding. The postholder is able to think strategically about policy trends which offer Conciliation Resources opportunities for influence in the future. They are a resource for the Gender Team’s efforts to achieve change in gender, peace and security policy. They bring expertise in writing for policy audiences.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Sound understanding of conflict resolution theory and practice and of gender, peace and security.
• Substantial experience in the formulation of policy advocacy strategies, stakeholder mapping and analysis and policy engagement in the area of peacebuilding or international development.
• Good knowledge of the conflict response and peacebuilding policies of key policy institutions that shape peacebuilding and policy development processes.
• Appreciation of issues of confidentiality and political sensitivity and ability to develop relationships of trust.
• Experience in training and facilitation and of presentations to policy audiences, including at senior level.
• Experience of writing persuasively for a range of external audiences, particularly policymakers, media and political audiences.
• Experience of drafting policy briefs, submissions, ministerial letters.
• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem solving skills.
• Ability to summarise complex arguments clearly, concisely and accurately.
• Ability to listen actively to, engage with and persuade people from varying backgrounds and with a range of political, cultural, and value orientations.
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently, and to work collaboratively with a flexible approach.
• Computer literate ( preferably experience of working in a MAC environment)

Desirable knowledge

• Understanding of issues and debates around counter-terrorism law, sanctions and humanitarian and peacebuilding action.
• Academic qualification in a relevant field, such as international relations, conflict resolution, gender, humanitarian or development studies.
• Experience of living or working in a conflict-affected society.
• Experience of working with international, national and local partner organisations.
• Language skills relevant to another area of CR’s work.

The Policy Manager will be charged with producing high-quality policy reports and other materials to support insight and influencing strategy aimed at key decision-makers across the world.

Client Details

Professional Association

Description

You will:

• Produce high-quality policy and research products
• Support the wider team's policy insight and influencing strategy aimed at key decision-makers across the world
• Support the promotion of our client's public voice and external affairs strategy.
• Produce reports, policy statements and responses to government consultations and select committee inquiries.
• Analyse political, economic and industry developments to ensure that policy projects address the most salient issues affecting civil engineering and the infrastructure sector.
• In consultation with the Lead Policy Manager work on the development of policy across multiple programmes and projects.
• Enable knowledge transfer from our client to key policymakers and industry leaders.
• Enable communications colleagues to respond to media requests to promote profile and support informed debate.
• Support senior staff and members in developing relationships with civil servants, think tanks, industry leaders, academics and others

Profile

Essential skills:

• The successful applicant will be familiar with and comfortable working with senior figures in politics, the civil service and industry.
• Extensive experience of carrying out research, report drafting, responding to government consultations, as well as a thorough understanding of the public policy making processes.
• Stakeholder engagement - both internally and externally
• Excellent drafting skills - report writing skills

Job Offer

Salary up to 40k

Policy Manager – Physical Activity

Alzheimer's Society is the UK's leading dementia charity. We provide information and support, improve care, fund research, and create lasting change for people affected by dementia.

Policy Manager – Physical Activity Responsibilities:

Alzheimer’s Society, in partnership with Sport England, is looking for an experienced Physical Activity manager to lead, manage and develop our approach to enabling people with dementia to use physical activity as an effective management tool, in addition to other forms of day to day support.

This exciting, new national level role will focus on the strategic development of Alzheimer’s Society’s physical activity programme of work and the creation of a Physical Activity Strategy.
This will include working closely with people affected by dementia, senior developmental conversations internally to lead the agenda, engagement with a range of key external stakeholders including across policy, research, health and the sport and physical activity sector, and delivering against a complex insight programme, which has been highlighted as the key starting point for the programme of work.

Working within Alzheimer’s Society’s Policy Team, this role will lead a two-year strategic partnership and programme of work, supported by Sport England with funding from the National Lottery, to:
• Oversee a strategic insight gathering programme to build a strong evidence base to build the foundations of future work in developing a physical activity strategy for the organisation
• Develop strategic plans based on the insight and innovation activities, working in conjunction with the Head of Policy, Head of Research, Development and Evaluation and Sport England
• Act as the strategic liaison with colleagues at all levels across the Society to improve understanding of the internal and external physical activity landscape for people affected by dementia; including Innovation, Dementia Voice, Policy and Campaigns, Operations, Fundraising and Corporate Partnerships
• Oversee the delivery of research innovations and accelerator projects to develop solutions to engage more people with dementia in physical activity

Policy Manager – Physical Activity Requirements:

We are looking for someone to lead this exciting two-year project, building the insight and evidence for physical activity for people with dementia and embarking on the delivery of campaign outputs and solutions through effective strategic partnership working and influencing.
You will be an experienced manager, a clear communicator with strategic leadership and strong relationship management skills across all levels of an organisation, particularly with senior leaders; developing communication plans to gather and share learnings across the duration of the project a specialist, chairing and leading internal steering groups and external expert groups.
You will also have experience in influencing sectors, people and systems to help shape and drive the ambitious plans and, in conjunction with knowledge of physical activity, an understanding of dementia and/or other long terms conditions, and how they and their current systems of support can create barriers to being active.
The role also requires a high level of attention to detail, excellent project management and interpersonal, presentation and communication skills, across a diverse range of key contacts and subjects.

About Alzheimer’s Society:

Alzheimer’s Society embraces diversity, inclusion and accessibility for all of our people. We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do.

Our employees work hard every day to make a true difference in people's lives. We are proud to support them with a range of benefits, recognition and many options for working agilely, all contributing to a strong work life balance. We also have various learning programmes to support you in your development and help you grow to realise your potential and shape a career with Alzheimer's Society.

Position: Policy Manager – Physical Activity
Location: Home Worker - England and Wales
Contract type: Fixed Term – 2 year contract
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £41,585 - £46,725 actual per annum (depending on skills and experience)

Closing Date: 04 February 2021
Interview Date: TBC

You may have experience of the following: Policy Manager, Policy Specialist, Programme Manager, Project Manager, Project Management, Policy Advisor, Policy Officer, Dementia, Charity, etc

Are you passionate about developing policy from research through to evaluation?

Prospectus is delighted to be partnering with the Fundraising Regulator for the recruitment of a Policy Manager on a full-time permanent basis. The Fundraising Regulator was launched in summer of 2016, to promote good fundraising by charities and to protect the public from unacceptable fundraising practices, by working with the charity sector to ensure it understands its responsibility to donors. The Fundraising Regulator is committed to being a diverse and inclusive place of work and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

Reporting to the Head of Policy, the post holder will play a critical role in developing evidence-based policy that maintains trust and confidence in fundraising. The Policy Manager will lead and develop end-to-end policy across all areas of the regulator's business. Integral to success in this role, is the ability to bring together a variety of information streams into a cohesive and coherent source for identifying policy priorities alongside the monitoring of, civil society the charitable fundraising landscape and political and parliamentary developments.

By establishing relationships with staff in other regulators and stakeholders across the sector, you will contribute to developing the networks and partnerships that help to achieve the organisation's regulatory objectives and support the regulator's positive reputation with charities and central government. In addition to this, you will manage a small team ensuring their ongoing learning and development and play a role in offering creative ideas and solutions within the wider organisation.

To be considered for this role, you must have significant experience of working in a similar position within a charity, public body or a regulatory organisation. You will have a proven track record of building strong networks and fostering good working relationships with key decision makers and policy makers at all levels. In addition to this, you must have demonstrable experience of supporting and developing people in small teams and the capability to spearhead cross-cutting organisational projects. The right candidate will have excellent verbal and written skills and enjoy distilling and synthesising complex information and communicating the outcome for a range of audiences.

A full job description will be provided to candidates shortlisted by Prospectus.

Please apply by providing a Word Document copy of your CV. Cover letters are not required at this stage.

A leading charity with a worldwide membership is seeking a Policy Manager: the role is based within the organisation's Policy and Public Affairs Team. The Policy Manager will be charged with producing high-quality policy reports and other materials to support the wider team's policy insight and influencing strategy aimed at key decision-makers across the world.

Key responsibilities:
- Support the development and delivery of policy content to reinforce the charity's influencing strategy
- Produce reports, policy statements and responses to government consultations and select committee inquiries.
- Analyse political, economic and industry developments to ensure that policy projects address the most important issues
- Lead the development of policy across multiple programmes and projects and present policy positions to wider audiences
- Enable knowledge transfer from the charity to key policymakers and industry leaders by producing briefings

The successful applicant will join an ambitious team and have a broad remit to support the development of policy content to achieve the team's outcomes.

The role would ideally suit a strong researcher and compelling writer who is capable of breaking down complex topics into clear narratives in order to effect policy change.

The successful applicant will be familiar with and comfortable working with senior figures in politics, the civil service and industry. They will have experience of carrying out research, report drafting, responding to government consultations, as well as a thorough understanding of the public policymaking processes.

Prospectus are delighted to be supporting a brand new not-for-profit called Uplift. Uplift are helping to move the UK towards a fossil fuel-free future. We strategically resource, connect and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel production that is commensurate with the scale of the climate crisis.

We are currently looking for a Head of Research to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to take on an ambitious role that shapes and delivers the ideas, evidence base and partnerships needed to phase out oil and gas extraction in the UK. This role is offered on a full time or 4 days a week.

As Head of Research, you will be responsible for designing and managing a cutting-edge programme of research that supports the broader network of groups working in this field. As a key member of Uplift's team, you will have the opportunity to help to define your role and strategic priorities to maximise our collective impact.

The successful candidate will have significant experience working on climate policy or related fields, with deep knowledge of the UK's policy architecture, processes and key dynamics in climate and energy-related policy-making. You will have a track record of designing and implementing ambitious research projects with excellent an understanding of barriers to and opportunities for advancing a transition away from oil and gas production in the UK. Finally, a strong commitment to Uplift's mission and core values is also required.

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

Given the unprecedented volume of interest in our roles, consultants are unable to support with general job search advice or specific enquiries before application. Instead please do either register your CV on our website or submit your CV for any roles that interest you to ensure that your application is reviewed in line with the position. Should you be successfully longlisted or we are able to assist in your job search we will be in contact to discuss next steps.

The Natural History Museum is both a world-leading science research centre and the most visited natural history museum in Europe. With a vision of a future in which both people and the planet thrive, it is uniquely positioned to be a powerful champion for balancing humanity's needs with those of the natural world.

It is custodian of one of the world's most important scientific collections comprising over 80 million specimens. The scale of this collection enables researchers from all over the world to document how species have and continue to respond to environmental changes - which is vital in helping predict what might happen in the future and informing future policies and plans to help the planet.

We are at a pivotal moment in our history as we launch a new strategy setting out our role as the natural world faces increasing threats. Building on our world-leading collection, global reputation for science and as one of the world's leading visitor attractions, the NHM has ambitious plans leading up to the 150 anniversary of the opening of the Waterhouse Building in 2031, making this a truly exciting time to be part of the NHM team.

About the role

Our Development Department generates philanthropic income to help us create a Natural History Museum for the future - investing in capital development, attaining vital acquisitions for the collection, transforming our galleries, developing innovative exhibitions and undertaking ground-breaking scientific research on issues that affect us all.

This is a key role within the team with responsibility for important project management within Development, and as the Development lead in engaging with stakeholders across the Museum on wider organisational activities.

These activities include Museum-wide initiatives in line with our science and collection strategy, ensuring that Development is represented and proactively involved in all aspects, and that senior management and the wider team are informed and engaged. In addition, Development is part of important Museum-wide governance activities in line with our ethical policies and values, and this role will play a crucial part in both representing Development, stakeholder engagement, and delivering the outcomes of this work.

You will also lead on the review, design and implementation of any new or revised policies to ensure best practice across the department.

About you

You will be a skilled generalist project manager or policy specialist with excellent communication and reporting skills, the ability to manage multiple workstreams, and be able to learn, absorb and transmit complex information to a range of audiences. You will also have excellent planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to act as the department's key contact for a range of activities. Your ability to develop strategies, policies and plans, and to engage stakeholders at all levels, will be vital to the role.

The role often requires working on your own or in a small team to plan and deliver operational activities and business change, so you will be comfortable with a hands-on role seeing projects through to completion, delivering training but also working directly with data, reporting, and using the Museum's information platforms - Microsoft Office 365, Sharepoint and CRM databases such as Raiser's Edge. Understanding of a range of project methodologies such as Prince 2 and Agile would be an advantage.

Fixed Term Contract, ending 30 November 2021
Closing date: 9am Tuesday 26 January 2021
Interviews expected w/c 1st February

To apply, please visit and upload your CV with a covering letter, which clearly outlines how you meet our person specification.

Do you want to shape and influence the future of fire safety?

This is an exciting opportunity to work for the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) in our busy Protection Policy and Reform Unit. NFCC is the professional voice of the UK fire and rescue service who support FRSs to provide national leadership and drive strategic change. We need a Senior Policy Manager to help as we work towards the introduction of the proposed new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), following government proposals laid out in the draft Building Safety Bill. This is a politically neutral role, and the successful person will ideally be a politically aware individual that can exercise sound judgement and display discretion.

On 14 June 2017 the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower led to the loss of 72 lives with many more injured. The fire was an unprecedented event and since that day NFCC have been working to ensure it should never happen again. In 2018 NFCC set up a Building Safety Programme Team (BSP Team) to lead the Fire and Rescue Services’ response to reforms proposed in Building A Safer Future, in response to the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, lead by Dame Judith Hackitt. In late 2019 the Government invited the Chair of NFCC Roy Wilsher, to Chair a new Protection Board (PB). This year the Government have provided £20m in funding to support an uplift in FRSs Protection activity and capability, with part of the funding available for the work of the NFCC’s PB secretariat and BSP Team.

This is an important area of activity working with FRSs, Government partners and wider stakeholders, mobilising and developing new approaches to tackle building safety regulation.

Working alongside our existing team of technical fire safety experts and fire engineers, you will be responsible for supporting a high-profile programme of work to help deliver the proposed new Building Safety Regime, an uplift to the Protection capability within FRSs, and national level initiatives and service improvements to respond to recommendations from the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry and HMICFRS.

This is a rewarding and demanding role. You will need to have excellent analytical, policy development, communications, and problem-solving skills, and to be passionate about the role of CFOs in fire service transformation and fire protection. Whilst you do not need to have operational fire experience, you do need to have a good understanding and appreciation of the fire policy and governance landscape.

You will be joining the NFCC at a critical time, with a fast-paced building safety reform agenda being delivered across government, including the response to the Grenfell Tower fire, and findings from HMICFRS reporting on FRSs. If this role is of interest, we would love to hear from you.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

The post holder will need to use initiative and judgement to resolve problems encountered, which may be complex in nature.

The post requires a self-motivated individual who can plan, organise and be adaptive in a non-traditional office environment, and will be comfortable working across a range of platforms. You will be adept at providing support to senior decision makers, have excellent time management skills, attention to detail and the ability to prioritise competing demands.

You will also be able to gather and analyse information from a variety of sources, drawing out relevant points and communicating them succinctly. You will be confident building rapport with senior leaders. You may previously have worked in producing advice to Ministers, provided policy advice within the civil service, or helped to deliver in an area of significant policy reform. An understanding of building safety and construction market regulation is desirable.

Key skills and experience include:

• Organisation and attention to detail.
• Experience advising busy, senior decision makers.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• Experience of working in a fast-moving environment agile, ideally with experience from a public sector background.
• Experience of leading on the production of policy advice, guidance, and consultations.
• Experience mentoring or managing other team members.
• Thorough, with the ability to establish and maintain procedures and systems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to deal with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work as part of a lean organisation, autonomously.
• Political awareness, with the ability to exercise discretion, judgment and confidentiality when dealing with elected members and officers at every level, and to demonstrate political neutrality at all times.
• Good digital presentation skills across Microsoft and web based platforms; adept in Powerpoint and visual presentation.
• Relevant work experience.

Opportunities may be offered to successful candidates either on a secondment basis, or via fixed term contracts subject to skills, experience, and knowledge. Roles are for an initial period of 12 months, with the possibility of extension, subject to future funding.

How to apply: please submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) setting out your relevant skills and experience, and what you feel you could bring to the team (no more than one – two sides of A4, this may be supported by a copy of your curriculum vitae if desired).

Notes:

If you are applying for a secondment from another organisation such as the Civil Service, we recommend you speak to your manager before applying as to whether this is likely to be supported.

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) is looking for an effective Communications and Policy Manager to join our small team.

Responsibilities include:

• Communications: Delivering ADI’s communication plan and line managing the Digital Communications Coordinator
• Policy: Campaign lead, liaison with World Health Organization and United Nations, and event support
• Publications: Support, including report planning, content generation and collation, with some copywriting, editing and proofreading
• Leading the coordination of World Alzheimer's Month

The successful candidate will have experience in a communications or policy role, including producing written and multi-media content for different audiences, coordinating campaigns, developing strategic approaches to policy, and deploying policy positions and recommendations.

ADI is the international federation of Alzheimer and dementia associations around the world; in official relations with the World Health Organization. Our vision is risk reduction, timely diagnosis, care and inclusion today, and cure tomorrow.

We believe that tackling dementia requires efforts at global, regional and local levels. We work by empowering Alzheimer and dementia associations to advocate for dementia as a national priority, to raise awareness and to offer care and support for people with dementia and their care partners. Globally, we strive to focus attention on dementia, maintain it as a global health priority, campaign for better policy from governments and encourage investment and innovation in dementia research.

ADI offers flexible working, an 8% employer contribution to a contributory pension scheme, employer-sponsored pension guidance, and a cycle to work scheme.

Please see the complete job information in the additional document and apply on our website.

Prospectus is delighted to be supporting a national education foundation as they look to hire 3 Research and Policy Manager to a crucial role in supporting the organisations work on promoting evidence-informed policy.

The roles will lead the quality assurance that the organisation provides for policymakers on teacher professional development reforms (e.g. Early Careers Framework). The roles will also be actively involved in the wider research agenda, commissioning and conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses on key educational topics and supporting the development of a strong evidence infrastructure across the organisation.

The successful candidate will have significant experience in research or policy within the relevant subject area with a strong understanding of education policy, ideally around teacher professional development reforms. You will have a strong understanding of evidence methods and standards, particularly around evidence synthesis and the UK's 'What Works' centres. You will have a proven ability to monitor, analyse and evaluation education research with strong communication skills to influence and create change.

Please apply with a CV in the first instance and the relevant consultant will be in contact to speak more about the role and to discuss next steps in regards to a Covering Letter. If you apply close to the closing date of the role, a Covering Letter will be required upon submission.

Given the unprecedented volume of interest in our roles, consultants are unable to support with general job search advice or specific enquiries before application. Instead please do either register your CV on our website or submit your CV for any roles that interest you to ensure that your application is reviewed in line with the position. Should you be successfully longlisted or we are able to assist in your job search we will be in contact to discuss next steps.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional individual with a demonstrable record of policy and research work, ideally within an asylum or immigration detention context.

You will be responsible for the delivery of our policy, research and parliamentary work.  As part of your role you will gather evidence from our casework and elsewhere to prepare briefings, papers and research reports about the harm caused by immigration detention to alert the Home Office, NHS England, medical professional bodies, parliamentarians, and the courts to ongoing issues.

Influenced by our robust and unique evidence base, our credibility and effectiveness, as well as the expertise of our staff and volunteers, Medical Justice enjoys excellent collaboration with lawyers, other NGO’s in the field, medical professionals and parliamentarians.  Medical Justice is the only NGO consulted by NHS England on its Service Specifications for healthcare provision in Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs).  In 2019 Medical Justice became the secretariat for the newly formed All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Immigration Detention.  In 2020 Medical Justice was granted Core Participant status in the Brook House IRC Public Inquiry which provides what is probably the best prospect there has ever been to expose ongoing systemic failures in immigration detention.

Working closely with the Director and the Casework Manager, and line managing the Parliamentary and Research Analyst, the successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring Medical Justice has the greatest possible impact on immigration detention policy and practice.

Though the full-time Policy, Research & Parliamentary Manager post is very much preferred, Medical Justice might alternatively consider a combination of a 3 day a week Policy Manager post plus a 2 or 3 day a week Researcher post – if you would be interested in either of those part-time roles, please express your interest as soon as possible.

Medical Justice is keen to look beyond the traditional review of your qualifications and work experience to what relevant knowledge and skills you may have acquired through your life experience. 

We are looking for a Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer who will contribute to the development of the College’s policy positions and guidance, and provide expert policy input to our projects and initiatives. You will engage with our members, external stakeholders and experts to achieve consensus on key subjects. You will also develop and deliver influencing activities to help achieve our strategic goals.

As our Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer, you will be responsible for gathering and analysing a range of evidence and intelligence relating to optometry and eye care. You will translate that into policies and resources that will specifically support our new work to maximise the optometric workforce so they can contribute to optimising care for patients.

As part of a small, proactive team you will play an active role in shaping and delivering effective policies, campaigns and influencing programmes around key issues for members and their patients, working creatively and collaboratively with others to deliver agreed outcomes.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in health policy and influencing, and a good knowledge of the policy making processes related to healthcare across the UK. You will have a meticulous eye for detail and be an efficient time and project manager. Your communication skills will enable you to deliver clear policy positions, work with a range of stakeholders, and plan and implement effective influencing activities. 

You can be based at home or work in the College’s central London office, or a combination of home and office.  You will need to be able to travel to London regularly, and other parts of the UK on occasion, to attend meetings.

About us

The College of Optometrists is the professional body for optometry. It qualifies the profession and delivers the guidance and development to ensure optometrists provide the best possible care. We promote excellence through the College’s affixes, by building the evidence base for optometry, and raising awareness of the profession with the public, commissioners, and health care professionals.

To apply, please visit our website via the Apply button to download the full Job Description and Person Specification.

• Closing date: 5pm Monday 1 February.
• First interview date: Thursday 11 February.
• Second interview date: Friday 19 February.

Please note that if you have not been contacted by these dates then your application has been unsuccessful.

No agencies or other recruitment services, please.

Division: Advocacy

Department: Policy

Location: London but initially remote working

Job type: Permanent 

Are you passionate about achieving positive change for consumers? We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Policy Adviser to join the policy team and specialise in financial services.

Our Policy team underpins the work we do to influence and shape consumer issues affecting each of us every day. As we expand and grow our team, we have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Policy Adviser to join us.

What you'll be doing:

As one of our Senior Policy Advisers, your work will underpin and support the actions that Which? takes to help consumers whether in campaigning, advice or commercial products. You will work across an exciting range of issues in financial services to tackle consumer detriment and help develop policy positions to achieve change for the benefit of consumers. From the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people's finances and their ability to access financial services, to tackling bank transfer scams, the agenda is current and fast paced.

Our Policy team underpins the work we do to influence and shape consumer issues affecting each of us every day. We analyse the issues that are important for consumers today, understand and explain the issues of the future, and design options and solutions to solve them. We share our evidence and thinking widely, across a range of stakeholders, including government and industry.

What you will bring:

• Policy experience and an understanding of financial services and issues.
• Ability to be flexible in a continually changing environment and evolving business objectives
• Creativity, enthusiasm, inquisitiveness and the ability to problem solve

• A confident team player who can build effective internal and external relationships and who enjoys working in cross-disciplinary teams

• A passionate and skilled communicator and influencer who can share complex information with a wide range of audiences
• Project Management experience, leading projects end to end

About the rewards?

You get a competitive salary, 28 days' holiday, contributory pension, life assurance, private medical cover, health insurance, full Which? membership for free, 50% off making a will with Which? Wills.

About the Which? way of life?

We want you to do great work and enjoy it in a workplace that respects and empowers you. In 2019 we were a runner up in the medium-sized organisation category for Britain's Healthiest Workplace, and we signed up to the Time to Change employer pledge that protects staff against mental health discrimination. We're also a Stonewall accredited employer. 

Click here to find out what we feel reflects what we do and how we work and to view our Which? LinkedIn page.

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. Send us your CV and cover letter by Wednesday 20th January 2021.

At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, social economic background. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers. We want to ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes, and therefore when required we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.