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Assistant Communications Stakeholder Engagement Manager
| Posting date: | 18 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,000.0 to £48,000.0 per year |
| Additional salary information: | + Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, London, NW1 2RT |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4540049_1710754200 |
Summary
This role is part of the Strategic Engagement team, which is responsible for planning and managing a portfolio of strategic relationships to help us to deliver our ambitious corporate strategy and improve our relationships over time. You will work closely with colleagues in a range of communications, policy, operational and other external affairs teams to provide timely and accurate intelligence and advice and identify opportunities to engage and influence effectively.
Main responsibilities
- To plan, manage and develop a portfolio of complex relationships which are strategically valuable to the organisation's work, and support the Strategic Engagement Manager in delivering the team's objectives.
- To build strong two-way working relationships with stakeholder/external affairs counterparts in our partner organisations, ensuring there is mutual understanding of our respective agendas, future, and issues.
- To plan and deliver a proactive programme of engagement with those relationships, ensuring that stakeholders have opportunities to be engaged with and support the organisations' corporate priorities and that we see growth and improvements in those relationships as a result.
- To develop an in-depth understanding of the relationships within your portfolio, and the political context in which they exist, allowing you to provide strategic advice and support to policy and operational teams and senior management.
- To identify and support the management of opportunities for partnership, working with stakeholders to aid the delivery of our corporate strategy.
- To commission and produce written briefings (including speeches and slides), support and advice, including to the Chair, Chief Executive, and other senior colleagues on a range of issues within your relationship portfolio.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the below: -
- Significant experience of working in external affairs, including knowledge, and understanding of political and policymaking processes in the UK and parliamentary procedure.
- Experience of creating and developing excellent stakeholder relationships including delivering stakeholder engagement strategies, convening stakeholders effectively, and developing content aimed at supporting the development of shared perspectives. This experience should extend to effective tracking and management of ongoing stakeholder relationships.
- A proven ability to establish credibility and exert influence with senior colleagues and external stakeholders/partners by quickly identifying the nature of an issue and taking appropriate steps to provide the necessary information and strategic.
- A proven ability to research issues, analyse policy documents and reports, reach conclusions, and make clear strategic recommendations about the best course of action to colleagues.
- The ability to present arguments orally in a fluent and persuasive manner to a variety of audiences.
- A high standard of written communication skills is essential. In particular, the ability to produce accurate and concise documents, often on technical subjects, in plain English, as well as the ability to work collaboratively with others in the joint development of written material. This will include briefing papers, information notes, formal papers, letters, meeting notes.
- The post holder must be well-organised, react quickly and calmly to changing circumstances, proactive in generating opportunities to progress their work, with excellent interpersonal and time management skills and the ability to manage competing demands while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- The ability to identify, develop and champion solutions to continuously improve team and directorate effectiveness as well as established business processes in a way that secures buy-in from both external and internal stakeholders.
- Excellent IT skills are required as the post holder will be needed to work to a high standard with MS Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. 6
- Some demonstratable people management experience.
Benefits
- 30 days holiday with the option to buy and sell more.
- A generous employer pension contribution of 15%
- Access to a range of learning and development opportunities designed to support your ongoing progression.
- Flexible working patterns and hybrid working
- Attractive salary that's reviewed annually
- Discounts at 100s of high street and online stores
- Discounted gym membership
- Private medical insurance
- Employee assistance programme
- Cycle to work scheme for those wanting a greener commute.
- Bike lockers and shower facilities
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