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Public Affairs Manager (Fixed term contract)
Your purpose
This is a critical role in the Communications, Campaigns and Public Affairs Department. As Public Affairs Manager, you will support the Head of Communications, Campaigns and Public Affairs to make oracy education ordinary, co-ordinating, project-managing and delivering public affairs work as well as leading public relations work that increases our profile with policy makers. In doing so, you will play an integral role in ensuring all children, regardless of their background, find their voice for success in school and in life.
Your responsibilities
This is a senior role in the Communications, Campaigns and Public Affairs Department, as part of the wider Learning, Impact and Influence Directorate
Public Affairs (80%)
* Drive forward Voice 21’s public affairs strategy, building key relationships, understanding and momentum that develops Voice 21’s influence with Government and non-parliamentary policy makers, ensuring that we have a meaningful role in shaping an oracy entitlement for every child
* Deliver Public Affairs business as usual work, for example; organising school visits, leading political and parliamentary monitoring, stakeholder mapping and horizon-scanning and organising events in parliament and at party conferences
* Work with policy makers on local, regional and national levels to influence schools, multi-academy trusts and local authorities
* Engage and manage stakeholders and other key people across and beyond the organisation who work with the Learning, Impact and Influence directorate to leverage relationships in pursuit of our organisational strategy and mission
* Lead on Voice 21’s role as secretariat to the Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)
* Produce/co-produce consultation responses, blogs, internal and external briefings, parliamentary questions and other related communications in line with our content strategy
* Act as an internal expert consultant on public affairs, decision makers and implementation of our agenda
Public Relations (20%)
* Deliver public relations activity to raise our profile and support our brand, including through awards, events and speaking engagements
* Spot reactive communications opportunities in line with the public affairs strategy
Within 1 month, you’ll have:
* Started building strong working relationships with the team, warm policy makers and sector partners
* Created a database of influential school leaders
* Helped refine our policy asks in key areas into easy-to-communicate goals
Within 3 months, you’ll have:
* Used analysis and polling to build reports on key advocate groups who can help spread our messages
* Launched our Oracy APPG
* Refined our monitoring and reactive opportunity spotting systems
From 6 months onwards, you'll have:
* Worked with our research team to map the state of play regarding oracy in policy at local and national levels
* Migrated our contract tracking to Salesforce and expanded it to capture relationships at local and national levels
* Developed a public profile among education policy makers
This job is for you if you…
Have experience in these areas
* Creating tangible policy impact through public affairs activity
* Building and nurturing relationships with policy makers at national, regional and local levels
* Creating public affairs strategies with clear objectives and KPIs
* Delivering eye-catching PR work such as award entries, speaking events and receptions
* Using research to create strong and compelling narratives
* Communicating externally about policy positions
* Ability to form excellent working relationships, internally & externally with sector colleagues
You may also have experience in these areas
* Relevant experience in and a strong understanding of the education sector
Reporting lines
Reporting to: Head of Communications, Campaigns and Public Affairs
Managing: None
Where you’ll work: Remote, with travel to our London office and elsewhere for meetings. Occasional overnight stays may be required depending on where you are based.
Contract: 12 months
Application details
Closing date: 25th August
Interview date:
First round interview: 3rd-5th September
Second round interview: w/c 8th September
Start date: ASAP
Questions: Head of Communications, Campaigns and Public Affairs, Elizabeth Somerville;
elizabeth.somerville@voice21.org
Valuing every voice
Voice 21 believes that every voice should be heard and valued. We are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and do not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Voice 21.
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