Guidance and Practice Manager; HEO; FTC; Liverpool/Newport

Posting date:	05 June 2026
Salary:	£35,384 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	22 June 2026
Location:	NP10 8XG
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	464986/2

Summary

Can you easily pick out important points in information?Can you explain complicated concepts in plain English?Do you like constantly learning and testing your knowledge?

The Guidance and Practice team write the Charity Commission’s guidance for charity trustees, giving them the information they need to perform that role. We are looking for a Guidance and Practice Manager, who will lead on projects to write guidance, so strong writing skills is essential. Moreover, we are looking for someone who can take complex information and explain that in plain English.

You will Also have strong research, analytical and collaboration skills, so that you can quickly get to grips with a topic and its implications and work effectively with people across the Commission. You can also be asked to deliver presentations based on guidance to internal audiences or to trustees and umbrella bodies.

Our projects can be long, and our drafting is rigorously tested internally and externally. You do not have to be a charity law expert, but you will need to be curious, have resilience, an eye for detail and good organisational skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write guidance, using plain English, which is based on the law and on Commission expectations
• Thoroughly research a topic and consider impacts and implications, to assess what the Commission’s policy position should be on a particular issue
• Make sound decisions (or where appropriate recommendations) on what to include and exclude, particularly whether feedback and editorial suggestions (including from senior colleagues) have merit
• Test drafts with colleagues internally, and with charities and sector bodies
• Work effectively with relevant colleagues to launch and promote the guidance with appropriate external messaging, and to track and measure the awareness, engagement, and impact of guidance
• Provide advice or briefings using our guidance, or what we would say in guidance, to for example answer press enquiries

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