Our Client:
Newly established membership and campaigns body. Our clients members include legal services providers, insurers, brokers, charities, MGAs, representative groups and others.
Job Description:
You will help shape policies and campaigns and provide hands-on support to the directors managing the business, particularly with regard to key external stakeholder relations, including with the membership.
You will:
- Need to identify priority political and Whitehall stakeholders and manage relationships with them in order to achieve policy objectives;
- Undertake research on issues relevant to our client’s campaigns, including attending relevant external industry events and drafting briefings;
- Draft responses to consultations;
- Engage with politicians, policymakers, regulators and industry figures to represent the interests of our client’s members and those they support;
- Work with third parties such as research companies and others to provide collateral for campaigns;
- Maintain engagement with the membership, including supporting engagement with potential new members;
- Assist with social and other media relations, including monitoring and providing regular insights to the membership;
- Events management;
- Write briefings and position statements and papers on issues of importance;
- Keeping key stakeholders up to date as needed.
Essential skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills with a wide range of people and audiences;
- You will have experience of Policy and Public Affairs;
- A good understanding of the political landscape and the structure of national and local government;
- Is a proven self-starter who takes the initiative, brings drive and ambition to the role and is able to multi-task;
- Has excellent research skills and the ability to distil and summarise complex topics into easy-to-understand formats for a variety of audiences;
- Has grit, determination and a willingness to stretch themselves at all times in order to learn and develop;
- Is comfortable engaging with potential new members to grow the association;
- Ideally has direct experience working with government departments, regulators, politicians and other policymakers.