Summary

We are seeking a Policy Officer to join our policy team within a Policy, Campaigns and Mobilisation Team. This post will support the development and co-ordination of policy, knowledge and insight, in order to inform and influence others inside and outside Diabetes UK.

Interview Date(s): W/C 27 July 2020

We would consider flexibility on where this role could be based

Package

What we can offer you:

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays
• A Cash Healthcare Plan (giving you up to £1,500 towards a range of out of pocket health expenses like new glasses, dentist, chiropractor or osteopath appointments)
• Early finish Friday and flexible working as part of our approach to activity based working
• Discounts on gym membership
• Employee assistance programme to give you support on any issues that come up in life
• Annual season ticket loan (on completion of your probation period)
• Very active social scene including sport teams, gardening and other activities
• Generous pension provision, life assurance and income protection insurance
• Cycle to work scheme (eligible for scheme if contract is permanent or longer than 12 months)

*Some benefits aren't available until you've passed your probation period and are dependent on the length of contract.

Main Responsibilities

The Policy Officer will play a role in the development and promotion of the policy agenda across Diabetes UK and will also help influence the wider health policy agenda, through networking, horizon scanning, consultation responses, evidence gathering and promotion of policy positions.

Ideal Candidate

You will have experience of working in a policy, information, research or project management role, in a similar organisation - for instance a charity or NHS / care organisation, government agency or professional body. You will be skilled in writing reports, website copy and other policy content for public and professional audiences.

You will have a broad knowledge of health policy issues, excellent organisational skills and ability to work under your own initiative and as part of a team.

Head of Policy and Advocacy

Central London/currently remote, £50,000-65,000 depending on experience

This is a permanent role and full time, but we are happy to talk flexible working including part time

Reporting to the CEO, member of the Management Team

Deadline: Mon 22 Jun at 10 am

Full Fact, the UK’s independent fact checking charity, is recruiting a Head of Policy and Advocacy, a new role at a critical time.

We are an independent charity, a team of fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm that bad information does — to people’s health, to democracy, and in decisions that affect people’s lives.

This will be a high-profile job at the cutting edge of globally-relevant policy debates. You’ll be working initially to influence government policy and legislation on tackling misinformation and disinformation online, on protecting election integrity and updating election law, and to improve the quality of government information.

Over time, you’ll work with the whole team to shape Full Fact’s advocacy work and make sure that the lessons from our fact checking are translated into effective calls to action in support of our charitable mission to inform and improve public debate. That ranges from seeking corrections when high profile people or outlets get things wrong, to influencing government policy, or making the case for responsible AI in our field.

We are a supportive and ambitious team looking for a creative campaigner with a strong policy skillset, committed to supporting and developing an exceptional team of three Policy Managers and one Researcher. The ideal candidate will have a track record in highly-contested or high-profile campaigns to influence legislation, government policy, or the decisions of public bodies.

We created this team because too many of the issues that affect our mission are either stuck in a world of policy slogans like ‘advertising transparency’ or ‘algorithmic accountability’ with too little actionable policy substance behind them; or at risk of dangerous over-reactions that infringe free speech.

At our best Full Fact combines practical experience of fact checking; rigorous research, diagnosis, and policy development; and compelling advocacy to achieve change. 

We have strong relationships already: a top-tier cross-party board; collaborations with public bodies such as the ONS and the House of Commons Library; and integrations into major online services such as Google Search, Facebook, and Instagram. We regularly engage with relevant departments, parliamentarians and committees, as well as industry and academic players. There’s plenty of room to build, and plenty to build on.

You don’t need to be an expert in any of our policy areas. You do need to bring your campaigning experience and share our commitment to accuracy in public life, and to freedom of expression.

You’ll report directly to the CEO and be part of Full Fact’s management team alongside the CEO, COO/Deputy CEO, Head of Automated Fact Checking, Head of Communications, and Editor. You will also work directly with the policy sub-group of the board of trustees chaired by Anand Menon.

As a member of Full Fact’s management team, you will have a particular responsibility for nurturing the supportive and ambitious environment we aim for, and for the overall direction of the charity.

If you are interested in applying but not sure you have all the skills, please do apply. We are open both to supporting learning on the job and to rearranging tasks within the team to suit the skillsets of the best applicant. We are happy to talk flexible working, and we are open to part time or job share applications for this role.

How to apply

Please email the CEO, Will Moy, in confidence with a CV and a covering letter that includes your notice period.

We prefer to sift applications anonymously. Please use your initials rather than your name and leave identifying details such as email addresses off your CV and covering letter. Both the covering letter and the CV should be attached to your email so they can be separated from it. Please include your contact details, including a phone number, in your email.

If you would like to arrange a confidential conversation with Will before applying, please email his assistant Paola Churchill.

Before applying please read the requirements we place on staff to protect Full Fact’s independence and non-partisanship. We recognise  that candidates for this job may well have been involved in public campaigning before and that’s not a problem. However, we are an independent and non-partisan charity and we need staff who can live up to that. As an acid test, if you cannot respect and understand people who took a different view than you of recent elections or referendums, this is not the job for you.

Policy and Advocacy are central to Full Fact’s work. If you’d like to learn a little more, read our joint statement with Africa Check and Chequeado: Fact checking doesn’t work (the way you think it does).

Applications close 10 am Mon 22 Jun.

How the application process will work

We want to see you at your best to understand your strengths and the contribution you could make at Full Fact with strong support, including for your learning and development. We also want to make sure that we use your time well during this process and don’t ask for more from you than we need to. Of course we will make any reasonable adjustments we need to make to this process to help ensure you can perform at your best.

The interview panel will be Will Moy, CEO; Mevan Babakar, COO and Deputy CEO; and Amy Sippitt, Head of Research. Amy is currently responsible for the team and is now leaving Full Fact after six years in various roles, having started as a fact checker.

The process starts off with an anonymised covering letter and CV. This will be read by at least two people to produce a shortlist for interview.

The first round interviews will be a phone (not video) interview with Will lasting no more than half an hour at a time that’s convenient for you. We will record it so at least two people can review each interview to decide who we invite back for the second round. The recordings will be deleted at the end of the process.

The second round will include a structured interview and some exercises which assume no prior knowledge. The interview will be with the full panel by video and last no more than an hour and a half. We’ll tell you everything you need to know to prepare, including anything we’d recommend reading in advance. We will ask you to prepare a short presentation for the interview. You will also have a chance to meet members of the team that you would be managing and ask them questions.

If necessary, we may then choose to have a third round that is tailored to you to go deeper on particular aspects of your skills, experience, or approach. This may include meeting other members of the team, the management team’s executive coach, or trustees as appropriate.

Job definition: Head of Policy and Advocacy

Your job is to secure changes from the people and institutions who influence people’s exposure to bad information, including governments, parliaments, regulators, private companies and others. You and your team work to reduce the harm bad information does by tackling its causes and its consequences.

You run a team of three Policy Managers and one Researcher and you are responsible for the quality and effectiveness of its work, for assigning work within the team, and for the wellbeing, management, and development of its members. As a member of Full Fact’s management team, you have a responsibility for the charity as a whole.

The team you’ll be working with

You’ll be working with an exceptional group consisting of three Policy Managers and one Researcher, and reporting to the CEO.

The rest of our management team—COO/Deputy CEO, Head of Automated Fact Checking, Head of Communications, and Editor—all have strong networks and regularly represent Full Fact to a wide range of audiences.

You will work closely across the team, including making use of evidence from our fact checking work; overseeing the Policy Managers pursuing corrections and other interventions following fact checks and feeding into editorial thinking; overseeing how we use research to make our work more effective; working closely with the communications team, including on media and on involving our supporters; making use of our AI work and automated fact checking tools, and working with them to advocate responsible AI from companies building counter-misinformation tech.

The outcomes you will be responsible for

Standards: Demonstrably maintain the highest standards of accuracy, fairness, and independence in all Full Fact’s work

Knowledge and expertise: Become and stay expert enough in the issues and ever-changing political, regulatory, and legal environment affecting Full Fact’s mission to be able to plan and advocate effectively

Recognition: Within three months, work with colleagues across Full Fact to design and implement a plan to increase awareness of Full Fact and the harms caused by bad information among senior government and political figures

Relationships: Ensure Full Fact maintains and develops strong, trusted, and appropriately challenging relationships with those we work with or work to influence

Policy: Lead Full Fact’s policy development on a range of complex and high-profile issues so that we have specific, credible, proportionate, evidence based and timely proposals to reduce the harm caused by bad information

Advocacy: Secure change in support of Full Fact’s mission and plans

Research and evaluation: Ensure implementation and development of Full Fact's research and evaluation plans and work with our Researcher to make our work more effective

Team: Contribute to a supportive and ambitious culture in your team and across Full Fact, including through goal setting and evaluation, consistent 1:1s with your team members, and regularly seeking and offering supportive feedback

Process: Ensure effective knowledge and information sharing, record keeping, and collaboration across the team

Learning: Within six months, agree your own learning and development plan

What we are looking for from you

Understanding of Full Fact’s mission and environment:

• You act with integrity and you’re happy to commit to Full Fact’s ethos and the seven principles of public life
• You’re politically astute and results oriented
• You understand that part of Full Fact’s work is being a watchdog, and that can attract hostile attention, and how those risks can be managed and mitigated while standing firm for our principles
• You are committed to the political neutrality of our work and have a good understanding of impartiality (please see the rules on our website)

Professional experience:

• Significant experience of effective advocacy such as influencing government policy in its early stages; building majority support in parliament on legislation; or influencing regulators’ policy and actions
• Familiarity with some of Full Fact’s policy context would be an advantage, such as freedom of expression, media, internet, data, election law, and government communications
• Track record of working effectively with internal and external stakeholders up to board level

Skills:

• A fast, flexible thinker, able to guide our team in devising and executing great campaigns 
• Able to lead and influence stakeholders, communicating persuasively in person and in writing whether on technical matters or on points of principle
• Able to both oversee and carry out rigorous research and analysis on a range of complex and high-profile issues

Leadership and management:

• You can run a team which is effective and happy
• You want to work collaboratively and you set an example in seeking and giving supportive feedback across the whole team
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and organise programmes of work, resources, and budgets effectively, including the ability to contribute to the overall strategic planning of Full Fact as part of the management team

Are you a creative all-round researcher with a desire to shape the evidence base that will help St Mungo’s advance its mission to end homelessness and rebuild lives?

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for a talented individual to join our busy Policy, Campaigns and Research team as a Research and Evaluation Officer. In this role, you will work with the Research Manager to design, conduct and report on research projects and support colleagues across the organisation to understand, commission and implement research and evaluation projects.

In this role the successful candidate will, amongst other duties:

• Co-design and conduct research and evaluation projects, including undertaking qualitative and quantitative data collection (such as interviews, focus groups or surveys), data analysis and insights reporting.

• Provide outcomes measurement and evaluation expertise to colleagues, including supporting service managers with the design, commissioning, contract management and quality assurance of externally commissioned evaluation projects

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a creative researcher with experience of both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis, and an understanding of the issues faced by people with multiple and complex needs and experience of severe social exclusion.

You will be confident in communicating research and evaluation findings in a clear and compelling way to a wide range of audiences, and have experience of writing research reports to a high standard. You should have excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities to strict deadlines.

What we offer

• Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

St Mungo’s employees are encouraged to consider opportunities to develop new skills or progress including; secondments, internal transfers, application to new roles in the organisation or just to get involved in various projects happening within the organisation.

As a result last year 35% of our vacancies were filled by promotions. In 2019 we achieved We Invest in People Gold level accreditation and are one of just 3% of housing associations to achieve this standard; 82% of staff who took part in the IIP survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.

• A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 8 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves. Our Networks include: BAME, Carer’s and Parent’s, Lived Experience, LGBTQIA+, Disability Awareness, South West, Irish and Women’s Action.

• Flexible Working and Other Benefits

We are committed to maintaining your work/life balance. We offer 25 days annual leave, and operate a very popular Flexi Time scheme, which allows you to supplement your annual leave entitlement. After 5 years, staff annual leave entitlement increases to 28 days.

St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 we supported nearly 30,000 people who were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

How to apply

To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the document available tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 10am on 14 July 2020

Interview and assessments on: 21 July 2020, via video call

It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

This highly respected medical regulator are looking for a Policy Professional to join their team.

Within this role you can look forward to developing and implementing the organisations policy and strategy work, providing support by undertaking research writing and developing reports and policy documents relating to the key work that they do in establishing and reviewing standards of their field.

You can also look forward to monitoring policy, legislative and other developments related to their field, and undertake research and provide background briefings to colleagues upon request. You will be researching and preparing responses to external consultations and advise members of the management team on key policy and standards issues.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an experienced policy professional
• Have experienced working and briefing senior members of staff
• Have a strong stakeholder engagement ability
• Have a strong writing ability, including writing detailed reports

- You think British criminal justice is broken

- You want to raise the profile of miscarriages of justice

- You love campaigning and persuasively changing minds

- You have a passion for using stories to engage decision-makers and influence better policy

- You understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the criminal justice system

Sound like you?

We’re looking for an exceptional and highly motivated communications and policy professional. If you want to have a direct impact on raising the profile of miscarriages of justice and fixing our broken criminal justice system, then we want to hear from you. In this role you’ll manage strategic communications projects, engaging key audiences and seeking platforms for our staff, our prisoner clients and their families.

We’re looking for someone who’s led impactful communications campaigns aimed at a broad range of audiences. You’ll have proven experience of delivering timely and effective communications and engagement strategies that have enabled organisations to achieve their aims. You’ll have a passion for storytelling and an ability to work alongside those with lived experience of the cirminal justice system. You’ll understand the complex needs of people with involvement in the justice system, and with experiences of trauma or poverty. You’ll have worked in a complex organisation and understand how to deliver excellent content against audience needs. You’ll also demonstrate exceptional judgement and excellent stakeholder management.

Who are we?

APPEAL is a law charity that fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform. Our small team of lawyers, advocates and investigators take on criminal appeals on behalf of prisoners who cannot afford legal representation.

1. We investigate: battling for access to records and exhibits, arranging new forensic testing, conducting street-level investigation, and systematically analysing case documentation, digging deep to find the fresh evidence that proves a conviction is unsafe or a sentence is unfair.
2. We litigate: bringing cases to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the Administrative Court and the Court of Appeal.
3. We advocate: working with former prisoners, campaigners, students, legal professionals, policy makers and other stakeholders to ensure our justice system learns from its mistakes.

We are committed to winning justice for individuals and their families, but also usingcases as impact litigation to push for systemic change to make our criminal justice system more accurate, fair and accountable. This involves not just legal work, but also implementation of a robust communications and policy strategy, as the reforms needed must come from parliamentary and policy interventions as well as from judicial precedent.

Work Specification

• You will lead APPEAL’s justice policy reform efforts and manage the day to day operation of our communications strategy.
• You will leverage APPEAL’s casework, research and campaigning around our Initiative to end the use of imprisonment for debt, that falls under the work of the Women’s Justice Initiative (WJI). The WJI primarily aims to use criminal appeals as impact litigation for imprisoned women who have experienced severe and multiple disadvantage.
• You will lead on policy reform efforts around APPEAL’s Open Justice goals, including advocating for better access to police and prosecution material, reform of the disclosure system, access to trial transcripts and improving the effectiveness of the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
• You will manage APPEAL’s external communications, including drafting press releases, liaising with journalists, managing the website and APPEAL’s social media accounts and writing our annual impact report.
• You will also support our Bound by Injustice group, working with the family members of our imprisoned clients and clients themselves to empower them as advocates for reform.
• The job may expand to include managing the day-to-day operation of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Miscarriages of Justice for which APPEAL is currently the secretariat.

Important information

LENGTH OF CONTRACT AND WORKING PATTERNS

Please note that we have 3 years of funding for this project but are only able to guarantee the post holder a 1-year full time role. We are seeking additional funding and, if secured, the contract length may be expanded.

We will also consider candidates who are interested in a part time role, though we require a minimum of 3 days a week commitment (if you prefer to be considered part time, please indicate this on your cover letter).

SALARY

£32,000pa. Additionally, we are Living Wage employers with a very flat salary scheme where all team members are paid within 20% of each other and all salaries are reviewed annually.

ANNUAL LEAVE

Annual leave is 25 days pro rata per annum from 1st January to 31st December, plus public holidays and the days between Christmas and New year. Additionally, staff accrue one additional day of leave per year of service.

LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

We have a small training budget and encourage staff to commit to their own personal development. We allow flexible working so if staff want to take on additional training or qualifications,they can discuss this with their manager.

EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY

APPEAL particularly encourages applications from people with a BAME background, with disabilities, who identify as LGBTQ+, or who were the first generation to attend university, who are currently underrepresented in leadership in the legal sector. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to promoting principles of inclusion and diversity in our work. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements, particularly to support parents with childcare or those with caring responsibilities. APPEAL's offices in The Green House are wheelchair accessible.

Policy Advisor

The memcom recruitment team are looking for a policy, public affairs and campaigns professional to identify, understand and analyse the pressing policy issues of a respected membership body based in Central London.

This is an interesting, varied and full-process role taking concepts and members concerns and translating them into policy which directly benefits the members and the profession.

A key aspect of the role will be to work with policy makers to proactively identify key policy issues which might affect the members, and translate complex legislation into plain communication styles for different audiences.

You will also be proactive in developing senior links within government agencies and relevant external groups, using your knowledge of the machinations of government, campaigning and policy to effect real change for members. This will mean devising effective and workable public policy proposals and solutions.

The ideal candidate will have tangible policy experience and experience of stakeholder management as well as the ability to analyse and translate complex policy for different audiences.

A key purpose of the role is to contribute to the development of high-quality research and policy positions rooted in AA programme and evidence, applying feminist principles to research and analysis. The role demands a specialist who will bring demonstrable quantitative and qualitative research skills, networking ability and a spirit of collaboration to ActionAid UK as it delivers on its new 5-yearStrategy –Together with women and girls.

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are changing the world with women and girls. We are ending violence and fighting poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want.

ActionAid UK are currently recruiting a part time Policy Specialist working 17.5 hours per week to join the Research and Programme Policy unit within the International Development Policy and Practice team (IDPP).

The IDPP team is a key delivery partner in ActionAid UK’s new strategy to promote a world where women and girls are valued, live free from violence, and can exercise their rights to promote their own economic empowerment, safety, equality and voice. The team supports financial resource mobilisation, grant/ contract management, programmatic innovation and assurance, research and learning as well as programme-grounded policy work. The Research and Programme Policy unit in the team is comprised of policy and technical advisers who research, develop and advance policy perspectives and programme led learning to ActionAid UK’s target donors, decision makers, partners within civil society and academia and policy makers.

A key purpose of the role is to contribute to the development of high-quality research and policy positions rooted in AA programme and evidence, applying feminist principles to research and analysis. The role demands a specialist who will bring demonstrable quantitative and qualitative research skills, networking ability and a spirit of collaboration to ActionAid UK as it delivers on its new 5-yearStrategy –Together with women and girls.

The successful applicant will have a good knowledge of women’s rights issues within International Development as well as research experience of relevant issues gained in a public policy, NGO or academic environment. Excellent written communication skills and knowledge of relevant data sources for the type of policy work ActionAid does are essential requirements.

Over the next twelve months a key focus for this role will  be to lead on the completion and roll out of a tool to help young women activists engage with macroeconomic policies and to support the continuation of our project on women and work. More generally, the role provides ongoing research and policy support to the broader team across our portfolios on Violence Against Women and Girls, Women’s Economic Rights and Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment to underpin ActionAid UK’s advocacy and programmatic work.

The post holder must also be able to travel internationally sometimes at short notice for up to 6 weeks per year.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working.  We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants. 

ActionAid is committed to supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

We are recruiting a Senior Policy Researcher to join our Consumer and Public Services team. People who come to Citizens Advice for support are five times more likely to be in poverty. Our team tries to change policy by tackling practical problems that improve our clients’ financial health. In recent years, we've done this by:

• Helping reduce the bills paid by loyal and vulnerable customers in essential markets by £260m
• Persuading regulators to introduce a cap on certain high cost credit products, which have reduced costs by £60m
• Lobbied for the introduction of a ban on letting fees, which has saved renters £13m a month

Our team is now at the forefront of the organisation’s advocacy response to the coronavirus pandemic. Our organisation is unique. We directly help 2.7 million people to solve their problems each year. Through these interactions we see first hand, and in real time,  the problems faced by people across England and Wales. We spot emerging issues quickly, often even before government - a particularly crucial role we’re playing at the moment. This makes us uniquely placed to develop effective solutions and influence government, regulators and industry.

You’ll be joining the team at a challenging time for the people who come to us for support and will quickly be leading influential policy research projects that you’ll design to make an impact on government and other policymakers’ decisions.
You will have strong analytical and research skills and the drive to change policy, working with our world-class news and public affairs teams to ensure these changes happen. 

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.

We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.

Job title: Senior Policy Adviser
Location: London with occasional travel to Leeds
Role: Fixed Term Contract to 4th June 2021, Part-time, 3 days per week
Salary: £48,270 + £4,000 London Weighting pro rata at 0.6 (FTE)

Job Details

We welcome applications for secondment from the health sector and encourage anyone wishing to do this to have advance agreement from their employer.

The NHS Confederation is the independent voice of NHS leadership. Our aim is an empowered healthy population supported by world class health and care services. Our 500+ members span the full range of organisations that provide and commission services including acute, community, mental health and ambulance service trusts; independent providers; clinical commissioning groups; and academic health science networks. We work across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and have a European Office focused on Brexit and international learning opportunities. We support our members to address the policy and strategic challenges facing the health and care system, influence the development of national policy and represent their views at the highest levels and in the public arena. In the last few months we have been working with members to ensure that there has been sufficient Government support to manage Covid-19 and we are now working on how we restore health and care services  more widely as part of our #NHSReset campaign.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Excellent knowledge of contemporary health policy, service delivery challenges and the wider NHS.
• A successful track record of delivering insightful and influential thought leadership and influencing through policy products and engagement activities
• Ability to write accessible and compelling policy narratives
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills that cut through complexity and provide insight
• Proven ability to build strong personal relationships and effective formal and informal networks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including being personally credible and influential with senior stakeholders
• Ability to effectively manage a mixed portfolio of policy work, including scoping, ensuring it is relevant, timely and of a high quality

The Role

At this time of profound change our members need support to address the policy and strategic challenges of the evolving health and care policy landscape and a strong voice that materially shapes and influences the direction of travel so that the needs of patients and local populations are met in the best way possible. 

We have an opportunity for an exceptional policy professional who can work closely with our members to understand their views and needs and shape a programme of policy and advocacy work to meet them. You will be used to working at national level, with members and stakeholders to gather intelligence, develop policy positions, reports and briefings. Also, in acting as an expert in your field, representing the organisation’s and members’ views. You will be used to working effectively as part of a team of policy experts but also flexibly across organisational teams.  

In return you have the opportunity to develop a strong public profile as a national expert commenting on and helping to influence the future direction of health policy and practice. As well as an excellent benefits package including 30 days annual leave, pension scheme, flexible working, salary sacrifice schemes and season ticket loans. 

The NHS Confederation welcomes all applicants from all backgrounds and is committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a process that is fair, open, consistent, and free from discrimination. We believe it is essential to build a diverse and inclusive company culture where all employees feel valued, respected, and acknowledged.

The NHS Confederation is also committed to being a flexible employer. We understand the value and benefit to our employees being able to work flexibly to respond to changing circumstances and we want to ensure we do as much as possible to help support a work life balance and take care of employee health and wellbeing.

Application deadline: Thursday 16th July (midnight)
Interview date: Tuesday 28th July (remotely)

Policy Advisor - £32K - £35K pa pro rata

3-4 month short term contract

The memcom recruitment team are looking for a policy, public affairs and campaigns professional to identify, understand and analyse the pressing policy issues of a respected membership body based in Central London.

This is an interesting, varied and full-process role taking concepts and members concerns and translating them into policy which directly benefits the members and the profession.

A key aspect of the role will be to work with policy makers to proactively identify key policy issues which might affect the members, and translate complex legislation into plain communication styles for different audiences.

You will also be proactive in developing senior links within government agencies and relevant external groups, using your knowledge of the machinations of government, campaigning and policy to effect real change for members. This will mean devising effective and workable public policy proposals and solutions.

The ideal candidate will have tangible policy experience and experience of stakeholder management as well as the ability to analyse and translate complex policy for different audiences.

RESULTS seek to make change through a mix of grassroots, parliamentary and policy advocacy, creating the public and political will to end poverty.

RESULTS UK believes the building blocks of the end of poverty are health, education, and economic opportunities – things that all people, wherever they live, need and have a right to. Within these three areas, we prioritise specific issues on which we can have most influence to achieve progress.

The heart of the policy team’s role is to provide a high-level of policy evidence and messaging that underpin all of RESULTS work. The policy team also goes beyond the production of this evidence. It delivers policy as highly-focussed advocacy messaging to the stakeholders who require the most detailed and nuanced levels of technical briefing. These audiences include civil servants, key development agencies and civil society organisations, but also the parliamentarians and members of our grassroots network who are the strongest champions for our work.

The position of Policy Advocacy Coordinator will provide crucial support to the Policy Advocacy Team. The post will be ideally suited for an individual with some work experience at the beginning of a career in international development, particularly in policy, research or public affairs.

We are looking for someone who will be proactive, efficient and flexible in supporting our policy advocacy work. Having a can-do attitude that includes the more administrative aspects of the role is essential. This post will provide good opportunities for developing project management and advocacy skills; an understanding of key international development issues; research and writing for advocacy; and experience of working with UK policymakers, parliamentarians and civil society.

As a member of the Policy Team, the post-holder will be working closely with members of the Parliamentary and Grassroots Teams in order to deliver on RESULTS overarching objectives: being generous with the sharing of knowledge, advocacy expertise, and contacts while working in a collaborative environment is essential.

Do you want to advance social justice and human rights with your analytical skills and your expertise on South Asia? We are seeking a Program Officer based in London to manage grant-making and advocacy efforts and campaigns from start to finish and play an advisory role regarding advocacy matters in pursuit of the Program’s strategic goals and objectives and, more broadly, the Open Society Foundations.

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. We are active in more than 120 countries, making us the world’s largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.

The Asia Pacific Regional Office - South Asia Program works with local, regional, and international partners to enhance governance and equity in economic practice, support civic engagement and participation in challenging environments, and strengthen regional platforms for human rights.

As a Program Officer at Open Society, you will:

• Provide a strategic vision for innovative program development in South Asia, and develop advocacy as a new and integral component of the Program’s work, supporting the integration of advocacy into grant making;
• Supervise, with considerable autonomy, the advocacy, grant making, and operational strategies in South Asia; this includes negotiating and managing grants, projects, project budgets, and contracts with diverse organizations/individuals;
• Serve as programmatic focal point on advocacy efforts with focus on a bottom-up advocacy structure, working with program staff and manager to identify advocacy activities, priorities, and opportunities;
• Develop APRO South Asia Program’s staff advocacy capacity and support integration of advocacy into grant making; Build greater solidarity and partnerships through joint advocacy with a select number of grantees, and cultivate unlikely allies, new alliances, and common cause in advocacy across issues;
• Prepare and deliver concise, targeted written reports and presentations for diverse groups, including peers, internal boards and external audiences;
• Represent APRO in internal and external meetings.

What we are looking for:

• Work experience in, and nuanced understanding of, at least one field related to human rights, justice, or governance in South Asia;
• Experience developing advocacy efforts connected to broader public campaigning and constituency mobilization, within a campaigning framework, and experience doing high-level advocacy;
• Capacity to conceptualize advocacy in inter-cultural, local contexts beyond the “usual places” where advocacy has traditionally been conducted;
• Excellent written and oral English skills;
• Fluency in at least one of the major South Asian languages;
• Ability to work efficiently to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment, and ability to adapt to shifting priorities;
• Willingness to travel frequently, both domestically and internationally.

Desirable (but not required):

• Experience of working on core open society issues in one or more countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and/or Pakistan is desirable;
• Language fluency in one or more of Bengali (Bangla), Dari, Nepali, Pashto, Punjabi and/or Urdu is desirable.

For further information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button.

Closing date: 7 July 2020.

We aim to build an inclusive workforce that is reflective of the populations we support, and actively seek applications from those who are marginalized and underrepresented. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and colleagues with disabilities.

This is an exciting position for an exceptional person with a legal, policy or digital rights campaigning background to work for one of the UK’s leading rights NGOs. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lobby UK Parliament to further privacy, free expression and data protection rights; to oversee some of the most important litigation on human rights and surveillance in Europe, including on facial recognition and mass interception (law degree desirable but not required); and to lead public advocacy campaigns for real change. You’ll also be a key Big Brother Watch spokesperson in the media.

The focus of this role will initially be on our Stop Facial Recognition and End Digital Strip Searches campaigns. You’ll have opportunities to work across all areas of our organisational strategy: data, rights and justice; freedom of expression online; policing and technology; suspcionless surveillance, and emergency powers - and to specialise in certain themes, as well as explore new organisational priorities, over time.

Post details

Job title: Legal & Policy Officer

Reports to: Director

Working hours: Full time

Starting salary: £27,000 - £32,000 (depending on experience)

Location: Vauxhall, London

Application deadline: Monday 20th July 2020

Start date: ASAP

About you

We’re looking for highly skilled professional with a demonstrable passion for protecting civil liberties, especially privacy and freedom of expression, and a high level of interest in new and emerging technologies.

Ideally, you’ll have 2+ years experience in a legal or policy capacity, or in a comparable environment that relied on your expertise on surveillance technology issues. You’ll be familiar with key litigation and policy issues in the area. You’ll also have excellent knowledge of British politics and UK parliamentary procedures. You’ll be a brilliant communicator, able to simplify complex technology issues and convey powerful messages whether in expert policy briefings or in live news interviews as a Big Brother Watch spokesperson. The ideal candidate will appreciate the importance of winning not only in courts of law but of public opinion, and have the skills to do both.

You’ll be at ease working on a strictly non-partisan, cross-party basis and grounding policy analysis in human rights and liberal principles.

You’ll be proactive in pitching policy, litigation and campaign ideas for the organisation to pursue within our work streams. You’ll also be proactive and in building relationships with partner organisations, experts and stakeholders. We’re looking for someone who is highly capable, self-motivated, flexible, diligent and able to work under pressure with an often competing workload.

If you’re committed to Big Brother Watch’s mission, we’d like to hear from you.

Big Brother Watch

Big Brother Watch is a UK civil liberties campaign group fighting for a free future. We’re determined to reclaim our privacy and defend freedoms at this time of enormous technological change. And we fight to win.

We’re a fiercely independent, diverse, non-partisan and non-profit group of campaigners and researchers who work to roll back the surveillance state and protect rights in parliament, the media or the courts if we have to. We publish unique investigations and pursue powerful public campaigns to pursue real change. We work relentlessly to inform and empower the public to collectively reclaim privacy, defend our civil liberties and protect freedoms for the future.

We’re a small, dedicated and highly effective team, now growing to of five full-time staff and five volunteers.

Job description

Policy

• Produce policy analysis, research, briefings and reports for dissemination

• Develop strategic policy recommendations informed by expertise

• Identify and explore new and emerging policy issues in our key work areas

• Communicate complex policy issues to varied audiences, whether parliament, the press or the public

• Build strong relationships with parliamentarians and advisors across all parties

• Identify opportunities to further our strategic aims in parliament, through committees, parliamentary questions and other activities; as well as regional assemblies and on occasion local government

• Work with stakeholders and pursue collaborative campaigns/coalitions on key issues

• Develop Big Brother Watch’s relationships with allies across Government, legislative bodies, international organisations, and NGOs

• Draft formal correspondence, blog posts, presentations, and other documents articulating Big Brother Watch’s policy positions

Advocacy

• Work with the team to develop campaigns plans to manage and schedule relevant legal, policy and advocacy work to further strategic aims

• Identify campaigns and advocacy opportunities

• Feed into development of campaign materials

• Write articles and give quotes to press

• Give pre-recorded and live interviews for TV and radio

• Uphold Big Brother Watch’s reputational excellence in public fora

Legal

• Co-ordinate Big Brother Watch’s strategic litigation, liaising with external lawyers

• Manage relationships with external counsel & build strong relationships with partners

• Produce legal and policy analysis and identify strategic litigation opportunities

Person specification

Essential

• Min. 2+ years experience in a similar role

• A degree in a relevant field (e.g. politics, law)

• Familiarity with domestic policy matters relating to privacy, surveillance and/or free expression

• Strong legal and policy research skills

• Excellent and persuasive communications skills

• Demonstrable experience in privacy, freedom of expression, or other rights and technology areas

• Aptitude for managing and building relationships with partner organisations, parliamentarians and other stakeholders

• Proven ability to produce high quality work under pressure

• Creativity and energy in approaching a workload consisting of large long-term projects

• Willingness to work in non-partisan environment, and ability to recruit support of MPs across all parties

Desirable

• Experience working with parliamentarians and/or producing policy briefings

• Strong media/spokesperson experience

• A track record of successful campaigns experience

• Experience managing litigation, either in a legal or campaigns capacity

• Project management experience

• Familiarity with relevant UK surveillance laws, human rights frameworks, and relevant case law

This is an exciting and busy time to be joining UK Youth. Despite the strain of COVID-19, we are in the process of developing a new strategic plan and direction for the organisation. This has resulted in a number of interim roles becoming available across the External Affairs Directorate. The anticipated new strategy could result in further exciting opportunities.

UK Youth’s Research and Impact function is a key pillar of our new strategy to sharing and embedding learning across the youth sector. As Interim Head of Research and Impact you will lead and develop a team to deliver UK Youth’s research and impact strategy, with a focus on continually improving UK Youth’s work to ensure young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.

You will be responsible for leading a number of high quality large and complex research projects and evaluations as well as the Research and Impact Team The Research and Impact team focuses on evidencing, articulating and learning from our work to positively impact on all aspects of the organisation to meet the needs of more young people.

This is an exciting time to join our team in a role that offers you the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of thousands of young people.This role is initially fixed term until the end of December 2020.

We are a value-based, passionate and committed organisation offering a friendly working environment with lots of opportunities for professional development and socialising with colleagues through activities such as office yoga, lunch and learn sessions and potluck lunches; as well as optional out of work social events such as bowling, tennis and baking.

This role will be located at our new Head Office in Westminster, although due to the current ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the role will initially be home-based.

UK Youth prides itself on being an Equal Opportunity employer and we would particularly welcome applications for this role from those who identify under one of the protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010, which include race, age, disability, gender, religion or belief, and sexual orientation.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings and are committed to inclusivity, and to employing and supporting a diverse workforce. Our selection procedures ensure that people are treated on the basis of their relevant merits, experience, skills and abilities and that no individual receives more or less favourable treatment. We can offer flexibility through the interview process and endeavour to accommodate candidate’s needs.

Visit our website to find out more about the role, working at UK Youth and what we can offer you.