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Policy and Public Affairs Manager
| Posting date: | 24 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,000 to £45,000 per month |
| Additional salary information: | £40,094 inclusive of Inner London Weighting Allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 February 2025 |
| Location: | South East London, London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Carers UK |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
About you
You will be an experienced policy, campaigns and public affairs professional with a passion for change and social justice. You will have great working knowledge of the policy and legislative landscape and be able to demonstrate changes that your work has delivered. You will have experience of developing policy and research which helps to bring about change. Self-motivation, with sound experience of planning, but an ability to respond quickly to a changing external environment, will be at the heart of your approach.
You’ll have a strong sense of purpose to bring about change that improves carers’ lives and will be results driven. Collaboration internally and externally will be important to you, and you will have good experience of line management.
About the role
The Public Affairs and Policy team is responsible for Carers UK’s policy, media, campaigns, research, public affairs and media functions, working with colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are a small team carrying out the full range of public affairs activity from raising awareness of caring through public campaigns and in the media, to influencing Parliament, Government and wider stakeholders through new research, policy expertise and our campaigning work.
This role plays a vital part in delivering the charity’s core aims to make life better for carers by:
Contributing to Carers UK's policy and campaigns function in the development and dissemination of policy, leading key projects to maintain and improve the reputation of the organisation.
Monitoring, highlighting and analysing key policy developments by the UK Government and other public bodies regarding their potential impact on carers.
Representing Carers UK, reflecting our policy externally and influencing decision makers, political audiences, carers, practitioners and the general public to achieve Carers UK’s goals.
Liaising and building strong working relationships with departments and colleagues across the organisation to deliver the policy and public affairs team’s objectives.
Ensuring that Carers UK effectively communicates its purpose, policy and campaigns to decision-makers, political audiences, carers, practitioners, media and the public to achieve change, helping to build the carers movement.
Having responsibility for aspects of the organisations work and being involved in the full range of Carers UK’s policy, public affairs and campaigns activities.
About us
Carers UK’s vision is to create a society that recognises, values and supports carers. As the leading national charity for unpaid carers, we exist to make life better for carers, however caring affects them. Our support, advice, information and campaigning work are now needed more than ever, as unpaid carers are providing more and more care, adversely impacting on their own health and wellbeing.
Diversity and inclusion
Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.
To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.
As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.
At Carers UK we want our application process to be as accessible as possible. If you need any adjustments to apply please email the recruitment team to discuss.
The closing date for applications is 12pm, Sunday 9 February 2025
Carers UK anonymises all applications prior to shortlisting.
Carers UK reserves the right to appoint at any stage, should an outstanding candidate emerge.
First stage interviews will take place week commencing 17 February 2025.
Carers UK may carry out online and social media checks before a formal offer is made.
You will be an experienced policy, campaigns and public affairs professional with a passion for change and social justice. You will have great working knowledge of the policy and legislative landscape and be able to demonstrate changes that your work has delivered. You will have experience of developing policy and research which helps to bring about change. Self-motivation, with sound experience of planning, but an ability to respond quickly to a changing external environment, will be at the heart of your approach.
You’ll have a strong sense of purpose to bring about change that improves carers’ lives and will be results driven. Collaboration internally and externally will be important to you, and you will have good experience of line management.
About the role
The Public Affairs and Policy team is responsible for Carers UK’s policy, media, campaigns, research, public affairs and media functions, working with colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are a small team carrying out the full range of public affairs activity from raising awareness of caring through public campaigns and in the media, to influencing Parliament, Government and wider stakeholders through new research, policy expertise and our campaigning work.
This role plays a vital part in delivering the charity’s core aims to make life better for carers by:
Contributing to Carers UK's policy and campaigns function in the development and dissemination of policy, leading key projects to maintain and improve the reputation of the organisation.
Monitoring, highlighting and analysing key policy developments by the UK Government and other public bodies regarding their potential impact on carers.
Representing Carers UK, reflecting our policy externally and influencing decision makers, political audiences, carers, practitioners and the general public to achieve Carers UK’s goals.
Liaising and building strong working relationships with departments and colleagues across the organisation to deliver the policy and public affairs team’s objectives.
Ensuring that Carers UK effectively communicates its purpose, policy and campaigns to decision-makers, political audiences, carers, practitioners, media and the public to achieve change, helping to build the carers movement.
Having responsibility for aspects of the organisations work and being involved in the full range of Carers UK’s policy, public affairs and campaigns activities.
About us
Carers UK’s vision is to create a society that recognises, values and supports carers. As the leading national charity for unpaid carers, we exist to make life better for carers, however caring affects them. Our support, advice, information and campaigning work are now needed more than ever, as unpaid carers are providing more and more care, adversely impacting on their own health and wellbeing.
Diversity and inclusion
Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.
To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.
As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.
At Carers UK we want our application process to be as accessible as possible. If you need any adjustments to apply please email the recruitment team to discuss.
The closing date for applications is 12pm, Sunday 9 February 2025
Carers UK anonymises all applications prior to shortlisting.
Carers UK reserves the right to appoint at any stage, should an outstanding candidate emerge.
First stage interviews will take place week commencing 17 February 2025.
Carers UK may carry out online and social media checks before a formal offer is made.
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