At the Royal College of Nursing we're an optimistic organisation. And we've got good reason to be. We all share the same voice when it comes to changing the shape of the health policies of the future. And as the largest trade union of nursing staff and students in the UK - with around 435,000 members - all we can see are the infinite possibilities for a brighter future. Join us and you will too.
We're number 15 in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not for Profit Organisations to work for, with Two Star Best Companies Accreditation for 2017 and are accredited with Investors in People Gold Standard.
As a Public Affairs Adviser you'll use your skills, knowledge and experience of influencing to deliver positive change for nursing staff.
We'll look to you to develop and implement strategies for building and maintaining relationships with key influencers and lead public affairs activity on cross-organisational projects. You'll use your in-depth parliamentary knowledge to identify opportunities to influence stakeholders to achieve our priorities and objectives.
Lobbying on behalf of our members will be your primary role, but you'll also contribute to integrated communications, policy and industrial relations campaigns. A key part of what you do will be to suggest innovative approaches to grow our network of supporters.
As our Public Affairs Adviser you'll use your enthusiasm, your excellent written and verbal communications skills to achieve legislative and/or policy change to the benefit of our members.
A key part of what you do will be to lead on the organisation's response to legislation, seeking to influence and amend where appropriate. You'll also advise colleagues on public affairs activity and intelligence, identifying opportunities to promote the RCN to external audiences.
In your role, you'll influence critical decisions about our political engagement, as well as how we facilitate and support members to become more politically active. You'll provide advocacy support to members to become politically engaged. As our Public Affairs Adviser you'll contribute to organisational wide projects, for example on legislative or policy change, whilst influencing stakeholders and building key external relationships.
What we offer you
We expect you to look after our members. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. As well as a whole range of learning and development opportunities we can also offer you an impressive range of benefits. We have a highly competitive pay structure, as well as flexible working, and annual leave of up to 32 days.
Balancing work and life commitments is important to us as an organisation. We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs. All employees can ask for flexible working and when personal circumstances change we will work with you to find a smarter working solution that suits everyone. In fact, many of our employees enjoy home working, flexible working or compressed hours, enabling them to deliver results with minimum impact to their professional and personal commitments. We also offer generous Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave packages.
As well as exceptional communications skills, to join us you'll need an in-depth knowledge of Parliament and lobbying tactics, and how these work best within a membership organisation. You'll need to be results driven, able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines and, ideally, have a background in health care or trade union lobbying.
Whatever your background, you'll be efficient, accurate and show political acumen in your decision making. You'll be outcomes focussed, seeking to achieve tangible results for our membership.
The ability to foster strong professional internal and external relationships and encourage close collaboration between colleagues is at the heart of this role.
To succeed at the Royal College of Nursing all you need to do is think bigger, better and brighter. And with an attitude like that, anything's possible.