Briefings and Research Officer

1 week ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom West of England Combined Authority Full time

Job Introduction:

Briefings and Research Officer


Working closely on a day-to-day basis with the Metro Mayor of the West of England you will provide a proactive and reactive briefing function and support the mayor to raise the profile of the West of England, its strengths and opportunities, nationally and locally.


The role will include:

  • Coordinating and maintaining factual, accurate, and uptodate briefing materials on the work of the West of England Combined Authority, policy positions and topical issues
  • Proactively identifying key opportunities to promote the work of the Metro Mayor and the West of England Combined Authority
  • Assisting with organising key visits to develop and deliver communications around consultation and engagement events across the West of England.
  • Researching, writing and editing high quality content for different audiences including news releases, columns, articles, blogs, social media content, video scripts and speeches.
  • Carrying out independent research to write policy papers to aid decision making
  • Drafting written and verbal briefings to the Metro Mayor and other spokespeople
  • Providing a central point of contact for briefing requests to the West of England Combined Authority
  • Conducting other research projects
  • Working with all West of England Combined Authority staff to ensure Metro Mayoral priorities and the positive work of the organisation are proactively promoted
  • Having a topnotch understanding of the national political scene including a knowledge of opportunities and challenges coming from Government policy
This post is fixed term until the 30 April 2025 for the duration of the Mayoral term


Interviews will take part in two stages - you will first have an interview w/c 10 April with a panel from the Combined Authority, followed by an interview with the Metro Mayor, Dan Norris, on w/c 17 April.



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