Senior External Relations Officer

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Competition & Markets Authority Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 350640**Salary**:

- £46,000 - £49,950- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Strategy, Communications and Advocacy**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing
- Policy
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the UK's independent authority responsible for promoting competition and protecting consumers' interests. With a focus on ensuring fair and efficient markets, the CMA plays a vital role in driving economic growth and safeguarding consumer welfare.

As the CMA continues to operate in an environment of increased scrutiny, the Advocacy, Nations and External Relations (ANER) team is seeking a talented and experienced Senior External Relations Officer to enhance the organisation's stakeholder engagement efforts.

**About the CMA**

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.

**Job description**:
As a Senior External Relations Officer, you will join the expanding External Relations function within the ANER team. Your primary responsibility will be to provide expert advice to individual case teams working across the full range of tools employed by the CMA. You will play a pivotal role in effectively communicating the work of these teams to stakeholders, contributing to the development of communication plans, stakeholder mapping, and reviewing relevant parliamentary correspondence.

Collaboration will be a key aspect of this role, as you will work closely with colleagues from the Strategy, Communications, and Advocacy directorate, including Media Relations, Digital Communications, and Devolved Nations teams. You will also monitor stakeholder sentiment and will share this with case teams and with senior leaders across the CMA. Additionally, you will build relationships with key stakeholders such as business groups, trade associations, consumer bodies, and staff supporting parliamentarians in Westminster.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

- Provide high-quality advice to case teams on stakeholder management through the life-cycle of cases including stakeholder mapping, creation of compliance comms content and engagement.
- Lead on the production of key management information on external speaking events, announcements and ensuring that CMA senior leadership are made aware of key stakeholder sentiment.
- Build trusted and productive working-level relationships with key counterparts, in trade bodies, consumer organisations, and other relevant bodies.

**Person specification**:

- Experience in planning and delivering effective external engagement for a large and/or complex organisation. **[Lead criteria]**:

- Strong understanding of the political and policy landscape, and its relevance to the CMA’s work and external engagement priorities. **[Lead criteria]**:

- Excellent written communication skills, including experience in conveying complex issues through clear, succinct, and persuasive content in a variety of forms.
- Ability to rapidly develop effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external partners, with different roles and perspectives.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- External Relations & Stakeholder Management

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £46,000, Competition & Markets Authority contributes £12,000 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.You’ll also get:

- 25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King’s birthday. In addition, you’ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering
- Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests
- Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard
- A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional

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