External Affairs Adviser (PID258)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bedford, MK42 9AB |
| Cwmni: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | MaPS00890-338016 |
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External Affairs Adviser
c.£51,450 per annum
Bedford
Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)
Hybrid Working
Are you passionate about securing better financial futures for everyone in need? Join the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as an External Affairs Adviser and play a pivotal role in driving strategic engagement with government, parliamentarians, and key stakeholders. This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of financial wellbeing in the UK—where your insights, communication skills, and stakeholder relationships will help transform lives.
Role Overview
The External Affairs Adviser will report directly to Strategic Engagement Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for:
Key Responsibilities:
- Support MaPS’ engagement with government as an arm’s-length body, helping to maintain strong relationships with ministers, officials and wider Whitehall stakeholders.
- Contribute to the delivery of our parliamentary strategy, ensuring activity aligns with MaPS’ statutory remit and corporate objectives.
- Provide input on positioning and messaging, and advise on government-facing campaigns and stakeholder engagement.
- Monitor developments across Parliament and government to identify emerging risks and opportunities, and shape our response accordingly.
- Coordinate executive-level external engagement by providing briefings and speeches for senior colleagues and attending necessary meetings.
- Maintain stakeholder maps and databases and coordinate the effective delivery of our engagement plans.
- Serve as a single point of contact for responding to external queries from Westminster, including parliamentary correspondence, casework and enquiries.
- Collaborate with various teams (policy, corporate strategy, press, customer communications, insight and evaluation) to support the delivery of engaging, multi-stakeholder campaigns.
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience.
To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience in developing compelling content for various stakeholder audiences.
- Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, including working with subject matter experts and distilling complex information into concise content.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with both external and internal stakeholders.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other teams and disciplines within and outside the organisation in fast-paced environments.
- Experience in organising events.
- Commitment to inclusive and collaborative working practices, communications, and engagement.
About Us
The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.
Our Inclusive Working Environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created. The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds. We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity, and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
Our colleague and ally networks encompass LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health, ethnicity, and diversity.
What We Offer
- Generous Annual Leave – 30 days plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme – contributions matched 2 to 1 (up to 10% of your salary)
- Interest-free loan for season tickets for buses and trains
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
- Life assurance scheme
- Give as you earn scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- PAM Assist and PAM Life scheme (Wellbeing)
- Enhanced family and sick pay
- Paid volunteering (2 days a year)
- Recognition Scheme
- Discounts portal to numerous retailers
Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.
Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.
Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.
Job Reference: MaPS00890
Close Date: 13/07/2025
Flexible Working
At MaPS, we take pride in our flexible approach to work. As standard, we work on a hybrid basis with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week. Hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and our headquarters in Bedford will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business needs, but personal and other relevant circumstances will also be considered. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Career Development
In MaPS, we take career development seriously. We actively encourage and support applications from our existing MaPS colleagues. However, we do follow the Civil Service Commissioner recruitment principles, which means that you will be required to participate in a full, open, and fair process.
Reserve List
If you are successful at interview, we operate a reserve list where your details will be held for up to 6 months. Should a vacancy come available in that time with the same essential criteria, reserve list candidates will be offered that position with no further assessment required.
Application Process
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Money and Pensions Service via email: recruitment@maps.org.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website.
Job Reference: MaPS00890
Close Date: 13/07/2025
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