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NACCOM is recruiting a new permanent External Affairs Manager to lead the work of our small but highly impactful External Affairs team.

About the role: 

NACCOM is a national network of over 135 frontline organisations and charities across the UK, working together to end destitution amongst people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants who aren’t able to access public funds because of their immigration status.

We do this by campaigning collectively for a fairer, more humane immigration system that doesn’t leave people destitute, and by sharing our learning, innovation, and resources across our membership to increase the level of accommodation provision and support the network is able to provide.

Join our charity at a pivotal moment. As our External Affairs Manager, you’ll sit at the heart of a high-performing, fully remote team, ensuring that migrant homelessness and destitution is high on the agenda. You will lead and mentor a talented External Affairs team, amplifying NACCOM’s voice as the UK’s expert voice on how the asylum and immigration system drives homelessness and destitution. 

With our 20th-anniversary milestone and a bold new organisational strategy on the horizon, you’ll seize fresh opportunities to deepen our influence. Working hand-in-hand with frontline members, people with lived experience, and high-profile partners, you will deliver sharp, evidence-led campaigns and projects that put migrant homelessness at the top of policy and media agendas. 

A strong aptitude for communications and campaigns, and an understanding of how that works alongside policy and research to underpin the external affairs function, is vital.

This role is for a dynamic, collaborative advocate who is passionate about social justice. If you’re ready to turn insight into impact — shaping narratives, forging alliances, and driving systemic change—we’d love to welcome you to NACCOM. 

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Key role information:

Hours: Full-Time (35 hours) or Part-Time (28 hours) per week 

Salary: Starting salary £43,000 annual FTE (plus £4,000 London Weighting if applicable) 

Leave: 25 days per annum plus Bank Holidays (England and Wales) pro rata plus additional concessionary days off between Christmas and New Year 

Pension:NACCOM will contribute 6% of your gross salary 

Additional benefits: flexible working hours, wellbeing time, wellbeing practice and Calm App

Contract: Permanent 

Location: Home-based plus travel - all in the UK (approx 5 days per month). Opportunity to work part-time in a members’ office or a co-working space. 

Responsible to: Director 

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Job purpose:

The External Affairs Manager will work closely with the Director and provide vital support to NACCOM and its members by: 

• Ensuring the strategic planning, management and alignment of communications, policy, research, campaigns, and advocacy as part of the External Affairs function at NACCOM. 

• Ensuring NACCOM’s external affairs functions feed from and into our network development work and our Community Ambassador / Research programme 

• Growing and safeguarding NACCOM’s brand identity, integrity and strategic positioning across all our external channels, networks and audiences. 

• Line-managing and supporting the Policy and Research Co-ordinator, Community Research Facilitator and part-time Communications Co-ordinator (currently covered by a freelancer) as well as managing any external consultants NACCOM works with across the External Affairs function. 

• Along with the Director, acting as spokesperson for NACCOM.

• Overseeing the spend against budget for External Affairs-related work. 

• Representing NACCOM at key, high-level meetings and coalitions, including with journalists, decision-makers and partners. 

• Actively supporting a culture of collaboration, support and mutual respect at NACCOM and across the membership network.

For more information about the role, including person specification, please download the Job Description. 

Recruitment timescales: 

• Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 23.59: Deadline for applications

• Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 July 2025: Stage one interviews held online as a Zoom call.

• Wednesday 30 July 2025: Stage two interviews with team, ideally in person but possibly online. 

Are you an experienced campaigns, advocacy or policy specialist looking for a new challenge? If so, it’s an exciting time to join the team at Woodgreen to help us shape Woodgreen’s voice to ensure pets and their people are better protected and supported across the UK.  

We're looking for a Senior Campaigns and Policy Manager who will be responsible for engaging with political leaders, the media, our supporters and the wider public.  In this role you'll lead the development and delivery of our policy and campaigning work, raising awareness of key issues, building strategic relationships, and advocating for systems change that improves animal welfare and supports the bond between pets and their people.

You will build and lead a small but far-reaching team to amplify Woodgreen's voice and lead evidence-based advocacy campaigns to drive systemic change in areas such as responsible pet ownership, animal welfare legislation, and improving pet welfare. You'll represent Woodgreen externally, with the media, in government consultations, parliamentary groups, sector forums, and external networks to raise our profile and policy positions.

To be successful in this role you will need;

• Extensive experience building and maintaining strategic relationships.
• A proven track record in campaigning, policy development, advocacy or public affairs, ideally within the charity, animal welfare, or social policy sectors.
• Substantial experience and confidence with public speaking for a variety of audiences.
• Experience managing a team or leading cross-organisational advocacy or campaigns activities and working collaboratively with external partners.
• The ability to lead, motivate and support diverse projects with a range of different participants.
• An interest in animal welfare and empathy for the complex challenges facing pet owners.

This is a full-time, permanent opportunity, working 37.5 hours per week on a hybrid basis with the expectation that the successful applicant will work from our Godmanchester site for approximately 2 days per week dependent on business need (although the frequency of this is negotiable).

The starting salary for this position is £45,511 to £50,568 per annum, depending on experience.  This will be complemented by;

• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) rising by 1 day each year to 40 days after five years
• Up to 8% employer pension contributions
• Support towards healthcare costs (cashplan)
• Free access to Headspace
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• 25% discount in our charity shops.

This vacancy may close earlier should we receive high volumes of applications.  Interviews may commence prior to the closing date.

Woodgreen is committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk and protecting anyone that comes into contact with us from harm. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Turn2us is a national charity tackling poverty and the structural causes of financial insecurity. We work with co-producers and partners to provide people in financial crisis with the means and agency to get back on their feet, build resilience, move forward with their lives and thrive.

As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to equity, inclusion and diversity and the value people from different backgrounds bring to a team. If, like us, you believe everyone has the right to have enough to live on, and you are ambitious about eradicating poverty, join us and build your career with a charity dedicated to ensuring dignity and equity for all.

We're now looking for an exceptional Senior PR and Press Officer to help us amplify voices, challenge persistent, negative narratives around the social security system, and shift public attitudes about financial insecurity. Ideally, you’ll already have solid PR and press experience within a charity or comparable organisation’s press office, excellent media contacts, and the strategic mindset to put people’s real lives and complex challenges front and centre in your storytelling.

You’ll be someone who writes clearly and persuasively, handles sensitive topics with genuine care, and who’s excited by the challenge of finding creative ways to engage diverse audiences. Your strong relationships with journalists will help us ensure the voices of people facing financial insecurity are represented accurately, widely, and compassionately in the media.

We offer flexible working patterns, both in terms of hours and remote working. All team members come into our welcoming Farringdon office at least once a week, and you'll be joining a warm, supportive team that believes in each other, celebrates great work, and loves what we do.

Please note that all employees are required to work from the office a minimum of 1 day a week.

Some roles may be required to be in the office more often than others and this will be agreed with the hiring manager upon starting at Turn2us.

Please note that all job offers are subject to 2 – 3 satisfactory references and a disclosure satisfactory to Turn2us from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS). 

We’re genuinely excited to hear from you.

Closing date: 20th July, 23:59

Interview date: 11 Aug for first interviews, 18 Aug for second interviews

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, creative, visionary, and passionate about making a positive change to people’s lives via the mediums of press and media. You will have the ability to confidently communicate and interact well with people from a wide range of backgrounds. Excellent organisational, data interpretation and creative writing skills are essential for this role, as well as an ability to generate ideas and work closely with colleagues. 

As our Press, PR and Media Coordinator, you will be responsible for planning and delivering a wide range of communications that contribute to the increased brand awareness of the charity, demonstrating the charity’s impact and expertise throughout the press, both print and online, television and radio. This will include a wide range of PR activities including press releases, external communications, campaign coordination, events, and other promotional activities.

You will be working as part of a wider marketing team and reporting to the Director of Marketing and Communications.

Age UK is currently recruiting for an exciting fixed term position as External Affairs Support Officer on a 12 month fixed-term basis.

In this entry-level role, you'll support the delivery of our highly effective campaigns and public affairs activities which change the lives of older people. This is the perfect opportunity to start a career in campaigning or public affairs, offering you varied experience and exposure to public and parliamentary campaigning, as well as supporting our local Age UK partners to campaign locally.

As External Affairs Support Officer, you'll provide efficient administrative support to the External Affairs team, assist with logistical planning and event organisation, keep track of relevant parliamentary activity. You'll also work with individuals to tell their stories and influence political decision makers and prepare engaging communications relating to our campaigns and public affairs work for a range of audiences.

With an astute attention to detail, you'll be able to prioritise your workload, critically listen and confidently communicate both verbally and in written form; as well as having a sincere interest in politics and/or campaigning for change.

This is a hybrid opportunity, a blend of homebased and office working. Our linked office for this role is in London (near Tower Hill) and you would be expected to attend the office at least once a week for meetings and more often if needed to support events or campaign activity. Travel costs to the London office are not covered by the charity.

Must haves:

The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P

Personal attributes

Interest in politics and/or campaigning for change. A, I

An empathetic and sensitive approach to working with people sharing their personal experiences. A, I, T

An ability to provide appropriate attention to detail. A, T

Experience

Experience of organising or supporting events. A, I

Skills and knowledge

Good written and verbal communication skills. You are comfortable writing for a range of audiences and tailoring style and content appropriately. A, I, T

Good organisational and planning skills, along with an ability to prioritise workload and competing demands. A, I
 

Great to haves:

Experience

Experience of using a range of digital tools. A, I

Skills and knowledge

Understanding of the voluntary sector. A, I

Broad understanding of the issues facing older people. A, I

Basic understanding of the political process. A, T, I

Additional Information

Requirement to attend team meetings in person at least once a week and to be available to support meetings and events in London when required. There is a requirement to travel and occasionally to stay overnight (e.g. running events in different parts of the country, party conferences or filming storytellers in different parts of the country); some out of hours working (e.g. occasional evening Parliamentary events).

Supporting statements and anonymisation
Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected.

CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview.

Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Reasonable adjustments
Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.

Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

MSI Reproductive Choices UK is an independent provider of NHS-funded sexual and reproductive health services, with over 60 clinics across England providing abortion, vasectomy and contraception services.

We are looking for a passionate and pro-choice communications manager to oversee all internal and external communications strategies.

The role will work across the organisation with a range of stakeholders and help determine our communications priorities and be hands-on in terms planning and executing successful communications plans. Excellent verbal and written skills are required to ensure consistency of messaging across all channels to internal and external audiences.

If you have a good understanding of issues affecting access to reproductive healthcare in the UK and are passionate about supporting people to access essential abortion, vasectomy and contraception care, we want to hear from you!

�� Location: Hybrid (expectation to travel for team days/as business requires)

⌚ Contract Type: Permanent, 35 hours per week

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· Starting from £42,213.23 - £46,434.55 for base locations outside of London,  dependent on experience

· Starting from £46,434.55 - £51,078.01 for base locations inside of London, dependent on experience

Role Overview:
As our Communications Manager, you will take the lead on internal and external communication activities, leading brand awareness strategic projects. You will work with departments across the organisation to share our work to improve access to reproductive healthcare.

What can we offer you?

· ��‍��‍��‍�� Competitive family friendly benefits to support your family and working life

· �� Market leading Aviva pension provider up to 5% employer contribution

· �� Birthday Bonus with an additional day of annual leave dedicated to celebrating your birthday and long service recognition rewards programme

· �� Perks and discounts at over 4000 retail and hospitality outlets through the Blue Light Card

In addition to the perks outlined above, there are many more benefits alongside what is written above for you to enjoy. Find out more during your interview!

Key Responsibilities:

· Lead, develop and manage external communications strategy in close collaboration with media and advocacy leads and the digital marketing team

· Map and identify key stakeholder groups which have an interest in our Mission and Purpose

· Act as brand guardian for all external communications activity, publications, webinars and client-facing leaflets, managing copywriters and designers where necessary 

· Lead, develop and manage MSI UK’s internal communications strategy, working closely with MSI UK’s Executive and HR teams

· Manage the internal communications calendar and channels (SharePoint, Microsoft teams communication channels, internal newsletter)

· Ensure the MSI brand is consistent across all touchpoints and is aligned with the MSI Reproductive Choices’ global brand

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What we’re looking for:

· Proven track record in internal and external communications strategies.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

· Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.

· Strong project management skills.

· Experience in developing and executing communication strategies.

Help shape the conversation on race equality in the UK

The Race Equality Foundation is looking for an experienced and strategic Public Affairs and Communications Manager to lead and grow our communications work – ensuring our voice is influential, impactful, and heard where it matters most.

This is a pivotal time for our small but ambitious charity. You'll take forward our communications strategy and embed a bold  public affairs approach that connects our evidence-based work with key audiences – from the media and the public to policymakers and parliamentarians.

You'll oversee all external communications activity, lead media engagement, shape our digital presence, and work with senior leaders to influence change. With one direct report (Communications Assistant), you’ll be both a strategic thinker and a hands-on doer – equally comfortable pitching a story to the press, briefing an MP, or overseeing the production of a campaign video.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• A proven track record of leading strategic communications or public affairs in the charity, public or policy sector

• Strong media relations skills and a good understanding of the UK political landscape

• Excellent written communication – from press releases to policy briefings

• A strong understanding of race equality, intersectionality and a commitment to social justice

• The ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving team

What we offer:

• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, growing to 30 days with long service

• A generous package including workplace pension, employee assistance scheme, workplace loans and commitment to your training and development

• Flexible, hybrid working with a London office base

• The chance to make a real difference in shaping public debate and influencing racial justice policy in the UK

Reports to: Director of Strategy

Staff responsibilities: Line manage four staff; Senior Social Media Officer, Communications Officer, Communications Assistant, Media Officer 

Hours of work: 37.5 hours, full time. The role is contracted until 31 March 2026, due to government funding.

Please note, candidates must be based in the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the promotion of Bikeability, the Government’s national cycle training programme, as a key member of the management team.

The Head of Marketing and Communications is responsible for the creation, development and delivery of marketing and communications activity with both internal and external audiences, including the Bikeability industry, schools, parents, the general public, media, and key stakeholders.

You will head up a team of talented communication experts, as part of the Strategy team, ensuring the delivery of all communications activity, including marketing campaigns, social media, press relations, industry engagement, and communications support to our public affairs strategy.

You will have excellent experience of delivering outstanding marketing and communications campaigns to increase brand awareness and drive service demand. You will have a collaborative approach and enjoy working as part of a team.  You will report to the Director of Strategy and be actively engaged in advising the executive team and trustees. 

Responsibilities:  

Lead the Promotions and Communications team to: 

• Develop and deliver The Bikeability Trust’s marketing, communications and media activities, including campaigns and project communications

• Manage relevant contracts with external agencies, including website management and graphic design

• Deliver the Bikeability social media programme to key audiences including parents, schools, internal Bikeability industry, and general public for wider awareness 

• Deliver communications support for Bikeability industry through a programme of regular communications 

• Work collaboratively with teams across the organisation to deliver effective project communication deliverables 

• Effectively manage team budget 

• Use media monitoring and brand tracking to evaluate impact and manage brand reputation

• Ensure evaluation and impact of communications work is collated and learning shared.

Enhance and improve strategic stakeholders’ engagement, including joint campaigns, cross-promotion and/or specific project activity to: 

• Ensure the Department for Transport and Active Travel England are fully engaged in any communications activity, working with them to amplify messaging 

• Work with cycling and active travel organisations on joint campaigns and promotions 

• Suport our Fundraising team to generate engagement and income from individual donors and corporate partners 

• Work with our agency partner to provide communications support to public affairs strategy 

• Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion are considered, and the Bikeability industry voice is at the centre, in all research projects and programmes. 

Provide communications leadership across The Bikeability Trust: 

• Champion and advocate the brand, supporting and motivating teams across the organisation to adopt our tone of voice and messaging 

• Track communications performance management and make recommendations for improvement 

• Deputise for the Director of Strategy in reporting to Board and attending Board meetings. 

Essential Skills and Experience 

• Minimum of 2 years leadership experience in communications, PR or marketing, including management of a small team.

• Experience of communications and marketing, including promotional campaigns 

• Experience of website management 

• Strong leadership and collaborative working style 

• Self-motivated with positive mindset 

• Excellent communication and analytical skills 

Desirable Skills and Experience: 

• Experience working in charity or non-profit sector 

• Experience working in cycling industry 

• Experience working with local and national government 

About The Bikeability Trust 

The Bikeability Trust’s purpose is to ensure that all cycle training is delivered to a gold standard, inspiring everyone to cycle with competence and confidence.   

We are:  

• Expert: The Trust has successfully administered the Bikeability programme on behalf of government since 2018, delivering high-quality delivery guides and instructor training, and our workforce has thousands of years combined experience teaching people to cycle.  

• Inspiring: Every rider completes our training feeling able, confident and motivated to cycle safely on the roads for short journeys. Transforming the traditional image of cycling to an everyday, everyone activity.    

• Quality focussed: Our instructors deliver high-quality, consistent and standardised cycle training. We aim to ensure that every rider achieves the same outcomes to the same standard, taking into account their individual capabilities, including special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).  

• Inclusive: We take action to reduce barriers to participation, support underrepresented groups and ensure that anyone who wishes to access Bikeability cycle training is able to do so, and cycling is seen as an activity for all.   

• Efficient: Our delivery programme offers value for money and is delivered in an economic, proportional and efficient way.  

• Influential: We share our evidence of the impact of cycle training across a variety of sectors (transport, education, environment, health, leisure, etc) and work collaboratively with stakeholders, partners and commercial organisations to achieve our vision and influence behaviour change.

To develop and deliver the charity’s policy and campaigning strategy and the charity’s programme of health projects to ensure the charity achieves its key objectives.  To build engagement with the NHS, Department of Health, Parliamentarians, policy makers, think tanks, charity and patient groups to develop and deliver our campaigning strategy.  Build engagement with HCP networks and related organisations to inform and support delivery of our health information work.

To be the owner and primary point of contact for FBC’s health policy and campaigning activities, working closely with the CEO to represent the interests of the charity with decision-making bodies such as UK government and Parliament, NHS, devolved health and social care bodies and other stakeholders.  The postholder will Influence key decision makers, collaborate in initiatives and comment on policy decisions to press for higher levels of research funding, organisational changes to drive earlier diagnosis and improvements in patient experience.

The post holder will have the ability to meld impactful campaigning, political astuteness and evidence-based policymaking to drive change with demonstrable sensitivity to health inequalities and other issues that affect bladder cancer patients and their families.

They will be organised and will be able to manage several tasks at once, meeting strict deadlines.

Closing Date: 30 June 2025
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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a compassionate, values-led and relationship-focused individual with experience in participation or community organising to join us as our Participation Manager – London (9 months fixed term contract maternity cover), where you will work directly with children, young people and families in Tower Hamlets who are experiencing poverty to ensure their voices shape our work and influence decision-makers to drive change.

About Us
Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
In the UK, our mission is focused on ending child poverty. We work alongside families, partners and communities to build long-term, place-based and national change, rooted in lived experience and driven by data and evidence. 

About the role
As Participation Manager, you will lead on engaging children, young people and families from Tower Hamlets with lived experience of poverty in our work, ensuring their insights and voices drive the design and delivery of our projects and campaigns. You'll work closely with local communities, partners and internal teams to create safe, inclusive spaces for meaningful participation, helping to build power and influence for those often left unheard. Your work will be instrumental in shaping Save the Children UK's efforts to end child poverty.

This role will also require approximately 2 days per week working with community partners in Tower Hamlets.

If you're committed to equity, participation and making sure families are heard and empowered—we'd love to hear from you.

In this role, you will: 

• Build and sustain trusted relationships with children, families, and community partners in local areas to enable meaningful, safe participation in our work.
• Facilitate sessions with families to listen to what matters to them and create accessible, supportive opportunities for them to influence local and national change.
• Design and contribute to tools and resources for gathering lived experience insights and feeding them into our advocacy, research and programme design.
• Work with teams across the organisation (media, public affairs, campaigns, safeguarding) to ensure children and young people's voices are integrated and elevated.
• Maintain accurate engagement records, contributing to monitoring, evaluation and learning across community-based projects.
• Stay up to date with best practices and safeguarding standards in participation, embedding them in all areas of delivery.

About you
To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Experience of engaging communities, families or young people in participation, co-production, or community organising.
• Strong knowledge of safeguarding and safe working practices when working with children, families and vulnerable groups.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust and long-term relationships with diverse individuals and communities.
• Knowledge of current participation policies and good practice, and a commitment to working inclusively with marginalised voices.
• A passion for social justice and experience or interest in the issues facing families living in poverty.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you:
Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:
The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 
Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT or in an LGBT family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

About Us

We are the national body for careers education in England, delivering support to schools and colleges to deliver modern, 21st century careers education.

The Careers & Enterprise Company is a great place to work. We operate within a fast-paced and collaborative environment. We are brought together by one thing: our passion to ensure young people get the best possible start in life and are supported to find their best next step.

Do you want to be part of a mission-driven team focused on transforming young people’s lives? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the role 

We are looking for a senior External Affairs leader to oversee a busy multi-disciplinary team to drive our reputational, influencing and engagement work across our national outreach, this is not a new post - it is one that already exists within the company's staffing structure. This is a highprofile position within the organisation, with responsibility for leading an integrated approach to delivering our strategic objectives across government relations, policy influencing, communications and marketing and audience engagement functions.

World class careers education requires engaging lots of institutions and stakeholders to work together in a focussed, strategic and co-ordinated way for young people across the country. Key is ensuring careers education continues to elevate its status within the skills, education and local growth agenda for policy makers and that key influencers and actors in the system collaborate with us meaningfully to achieve our mission of helping every young person to take their next best step.

External Affairs sits within CEC’s Strategy & Communications directorate alongside Policy & Impact and Strategic Business Engagement and plays a key role in helping these teams and other sectorled teams across CEC to engage audiences, communicate evidence led practice and to help inform and influence positively on future approaches to driving high quality careers education.

The role brings together three key areas:

1. Corporate Affairs and government and policy engagement, including parliamentary relationsand wider external influencers on careers, skills and education policy and provision
2. Communications, inclusive of press and media relations and stakeholder communications across multi-channels
3. Marketing and Audience Engagement, to engage and support multiple key actors within the careers education landscape, including schools and colleges, employers and providers

Please visit our website to apply, complete an application form and cover letter and upload an anonymised version of your CV.

Please describe in your cover letter:

• How you meet the experience, skills and competency criteria detailed in the job profile
• Why you would like to work for the Careers and Enterprise Company

Closing date: Midnight on 29th June 2025

Closing Date: 30 June 2025

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a thoughtful, analytical and values-driven individual with strong experience in public policy and research to join us as our Policy and Research Manager (Regions), where you will work with local communities, metro mayors, policy partners, and Save the Children colleagues to develop evidence-based, inclusive policy solutions aimed at ending child poverty across England.

This is a new and exciting position that comes out of our ambitious strategy for England and Westminster.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm.  When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave.  We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

In the UK, our mission is focused on ending child poverty. We work alongside families, partners and communities to build long-term, place-based and national change, rooted in lived experience and driven by data and evidence.

About the role

As Policy and Research Manager (Regions), you will play a central role in developing policy and research that supports ambitious, place-based strategies to tackle child poverty in England. You'll work closely with colleagues in place-based partnerships as well as metro mayors, local partners and policy communities—to ensure our advocacy is grounded in lived experience, responsive to regional dynamics, and informed by strong evidence. You'll produce high-impact insights, briefings, and policy proposalsthat advance long-term, practical change particularly through levers at local and regional levels,

If you're passionate about social justice, policy change, and ensuring that every child has a fair start in life—we'd love to hear from you.

In this role, you will: 

• Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge on the drivers of child poverty, with a focus on marginalised children and families and how poverty is experienced differently across England.
• Co-design and deliver regional policy and research proposals in partnership with children, young people, families, and place-based organisations.
• Provide timely political and policy analysis of metro mayors and regional powers to support regional influencing and advocacy strategies.
• Produce high-quality reports, briefings, and literature reviews for diverse audiences including policymakers, sector partners and civil society.
• Lead or contribute to innovative research projects (including primary research) that amplify voices from communities and support policy change.
• Build strong relationships within the national and regional policy community and play a key role in internal and external collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Proven experience in developing policy or research related to social justice, poverty or public services, ideally in a regional or local context.
• Strong research skills with experience designing and delivering evidence-based projects, and an ability to produce impactful written outputs for external use.
• A good understanding of the political and policy environment in England, including devolution and metro mayoral structures.
• A commitment to co-producing policy and research with people who have lived experience of poverty, with a strong understanding of inclusive practice.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to engage external stakeholders and influence decision-makers.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

Job Title: Community and Events Fundraising Executive

Reports to:  Community and Events Fundraising Manager

Hours: 0.5-0.6 FTE / 18.5 or 22.2 hours per week.

Location: Hybrid – 2 days in our London office

Salary: £28-32,000 p.a. FTE.

Actual salary £14-16,000 p.a. for 0.5FTE  depending on experience and skills or £16,800 - £19,200 p.a. for 0.6FTE.

Contract:  Permanent

Are you an experienced community and/or events fundraiser, who loves the buzz of marathon day, and has ambitions to take their career to the next level? We’re seeking someone to join our community fundraising and events team at the Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) and help us grow our income to support children and young people with vision impairments.

This role joins us at an exciting time as we are building our community and events fundraising programme and offering new ways to engage. A focus of this role will be supporting our London Marathon team – a pillar of our C&E fundraising – building on the outstanding stewardship journey we offer our runners, and crucially thinking creatively about the stewardship journey once they’ve crossed the finish line, inspiring our fundraisers to continue supporting us.

We’re looking for someone who’s fun, brilliant with people, full of ideas and proactive to join our team. If that sounds like you, drop us a line.

Some flexibility will be required to attend events outside of normal working hours, and around Marathon Day.

Some main duties of this role include:

· Leading on event planning, recruitment and stewardship for the London Marathon with the aim of maximising income and fostering long-term support from our partners and runners

· Grow and develop RSBC’s London Marathon offering, expanding our appeal and reach

· Working with the Community and Events Fundraising Manager to deliver the wider community and events fundraising strategy, developing and implementing new activities and sustainable income streams

· Champion a first-class supporter experience, ensuring every interaction fosters connection and demonstrates value

· Support the co-creation of innovative, integrated campaigns that drive unrestricted income and deepen community engagement

The ideal candidate will have advanced relationship building skills and experience in community and/or events fundraising, proven ability to achieve income targets and build community networks nationally, working knowledge of CRM databases.

In return we offer a competitive range of benefits including a generous annual leave allowance of 28 days (rising to 29 days after 3 years’ service) + bank holidays, an option to buy an additional 2 days of annual leave, Employee Assistance Programme, Perkbox, flexible working opportunities, 3% contribution towards pension, access to 24/7 GP, mental health care and dental advice via apps if member of pension scheme, season ticket loan. We are a welcoming, diverse and inclusive workforce and are a Disability Confident Employer. We also hold the Investors in People Silver Award.

For further details on the role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.

Please apply by emailing your CV and a supporting statement which details how you meet the requirements of the role and person spec

Closing date: Noon, Thursday 26 June

Interviews: Week commencing 30 June

To apply you must have the right to work in the UK. We do not provide any sponsorship.

The Society is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Therefore, all posts are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check from the Disclosure and Barring Service and 2 satisfactory professional references. Registered Charity No.307892

Policy and Public Affairs Officer - National Youth Agency

The National Youth Agency is looking for a new Policy & Public Affairs Officer to join our Policy, Insights and External Affairs Team.

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time - 37 hours per week 
Salary: £29,000 - £33,000 per annum (depending on experience and qualifications)

Remote: NYA is a remote working organisation. However, its home is in Leicester which is available for staff to work or host meetings. There is also the option of a workspace in London up to 2 days per week. This role will require regular travel to meetings, events and conferences in London and throughout England.

What we do

As the national body for youth work, the NYA has a dual function. We are the professional statutory and regulatory body (PSRB) responsible for qualifications, quality standards, and safeguarding for youth work and services in England. In line with our charity mission and aims, we also champion youth work through research, advocacy, campaigns, and programmes.

We work in partnership and believe in collaborative leadership, listening to youth workers and the youth work sector so that we can understand their needs and respond to the challenges they face. We are ambitious for youth work and for young people and integrate youth voice and influence across our work

About the Role

As Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the National Youth Agency, this is a unique opportunity to shape the future of youth work in England. You’ll be part of influencing national policy and driving change that directly impacts young people’s lives. Working within a dynamic and supportive team, you’ll be at the forefront of monitoring and interpreting developments across Westminster - from government consultations to parliamentary debates. Your work will ensure NYA stays ahead of the curve, responding swiftly to emerging policy trends and helping to shape national conversations. You’ll work with the team to use these policy insights to develop our influencing and advocacy efforts. If you’re keen to develop your career in policy and public affairs and want to contribute to meaningful change for young people, this role offers the opportunity to do just that.

Key responsibilities for this role will include:

Policy and public affairs support

• Research and track policy developments, political landscape changes, and other relevant areas to identify opportunities to further NYA’s policy calls.
• Monitor and report on parliamentary activities, government announcements, and consultations relevant to youth work.
• Compile and analyse data from various sources to support policy briefs, reports, and other written materials.
• Draft policy briefings, research summaries, consultation responses, letters, reports, newsletters and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain and develop stakeholder relationships and record engagement on the CRM system.
• Work with the team with the preparation and delivery of youth participation activities to support our policy influencing objectives.

Event support

• Support the organisation, coordination and note-taking for meetings and events, including webinars, roundtables and political party conference activity. 
• Support with planning and executing of large events including attendee registration, youth participation, materials preparation and using the CRM system.

Other

• Represent the Policy Team at external and internal meetings, policy forums and events.
• Work collaboratively with other teams and directorates to help build an understanding of the work of the Policy and Public Affairs team and effective working relationships across the organisation.

Please refer to our Candidate Pack for more information on the role and the requirements.

Why Work for NYA?

NYA operates as a people-first organisation, prioritising the well-being and needs of its employees.

NYA offers an exceptional flexible working approach which encourages our team to balance professional responsibilities with their personal life.

A remote based team, spread across England, fostering inclusivity and diverse talent. Despite geographical distances between team members, NYA maintains a highly motivated and connected team through the optimisation of digital tools.

NYA is committed to supporting the continual personal and professional development of our team and helping them achieve their ambitions.

We provide 25 days leave plus 8 days, life assurance scheme, 5% employer pension contribution and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme via Spectrum.life with unlimited specialist support available to all NYA employees.

How to Apply:

Please download our applicant pack to find out more about the role and requirements

To apply, please submit the following via our online application platform by 11:59pm on Sunday 29th June 2025:

A detailed CV setting out your career history, with responsibilities and achievements in line with the person specification in the About You section. 

A covering letter (maximum two sides) highlighting your suitability for the role and how you meet the requirements in the About You section. 

We will request data for our EEDI monitoring purposes, providing this is optional.

Please note: the covering letter is an essential part of the application process and will be assessed as part of your full application. We use AI detector software, so cover letters or CV’s with over 30% AI generated content with be disregarded. We understand that AI tools can offer support to candidates who have learning differences, which is why we will accept applications with some AI assistance. CV’s will not be accepted without a cover letter.

The National Youth Agency is an equal opportunities employer. 

At NYA our inclusive culture means that we embrace individual differences and understand that we need a diverse team to achieve our organisations mission. 

We wish to recruit candidates from all backgrounds to ensure our team reflects the rich diversity of the communities we serve. We encourage applications from anyone regardless of disability, ethnicity, heritage, gender, sexuality, religion, socio-economic background and political beliefs but we particularly welcome applications from global majority candidates and those from other minoritised ethnic groups in the UK as they are currently underrepresented in our team.

Youth Work changes lives

Which is why we’re committed to ensuring that as many young people as possible get to benefit from it.As the national body for youth work in England, the National Youth Agency (NYA) exists to champion its transformative power.  We believe all young people should have the opportunity to benefit from the life-changing impact of extraordinary youth workers and trained volunteers.

We help to grow youth work provision in ways that keep it effective, relevant, safe and engaging, to help millions of young people reach their potential and thrive. We do this by providing guidance, support, advice, training and staff development opportunities for youth workers and youth work organisations. At the heart of everything we do are young people themselves. We work hard to ensure their voices are integrated into all our work, to develop provision that truly meets their needs.

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