Location: Leeds or London
The role of the Parliamentary Affairs Group's (PAG) work is divided into three key areas:
* accountability to Parliament, including fulfilling the Bank’s statutory requirements as mandated by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023
* engagement with parliamentarians, their staff and the relevant officials
* authoritative source of expert parliamentary and political knowledge for colleagues
Enhancing the Bank’s public accountability and communications by leading preparations for Parliamentary engagements
The jobholder will lead in preparing comprehensive briefing material for witnesses ahead of Select Committee appearances. Taking the lead includes liaising with attendees (Governors and other Policy Committee members), Bank policy specialists and TSC and other relevant committee staff, as well as agreeing and delivering the Bank's communication strategy for these hearings. Preparing for these high-profile Parliamentary appearances, which span the full range of the Bank’s work, requires a significant level of matrix working and judgment over how commissioning requests are sent to more senior members of staff. The job holder will be part of the team tasked with ensuring the Bank fulfils its statutory parliamentary accountability responsibilities.
The jobholder will also identify and execute appropriate engagement opportunities for parliamentarians and staff.
Monitoring of relevant parliamentary activity and political developments
The jobholder will provide monitoring and analysis of developments and events in Westminster for senior Bank colleagues, including Treasury Select and other Committee hearings, debates and any other relevant activities.
Providing excellent analysis of the political environment
The jobholder needs to provide colleagues with useful intelligence and timely analysis of political issues of importance to the Bank. This involves delivering clear, digestible, concise and contextualised written briefing that explains the complexities of the politics/background/progress of the relevant situation, in addition to proposing, writing and disseminating more in-depth horizon scanning pieces to explain forthcoming political developments which impact the Bank and its policies.