External Affairs Lead

7 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

External Affairs Lead

**Salary**: National - ranging from £48,900 - £64,000 and London from £53,700 - £70,000 per annum

Do you want to join a diverse team responsible for developing stakeholder networks with firm and consumer groups and representing the FCA across the devolved nations?

The team/ department

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Associate to join our External Affairs team, which sits within our Communications Directorate at the FCA.

You will lead our Devolved Nations and Firm and Consumer Groups teams. The Devolved Nations team is responsible for building and maintaining stakeholder networks across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, relaying key information, and assisting to influence policy. It also promotes the devolved perspective in the FCA’s work across the UK. Our Firm and Consumer Groups team will work with internal and external stakeholders to build deeper relationships with trade associations and consumer groups.

What you will be doing (the role)

Internal duties:
- Use information from networks across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and national in the financial services environment and trade body and consumer landscape, and effectively interpret political developments- Gather intelligence from internal networks, identify emerging risks and opportunities. Provide guidance to the Head of Public Affairs and other senior management, ensuring that risks are considered at an early stage- Act as a briefing function, working closely with colleagues from across the organisation to prepare senior management for Parliamentary meetings / receptions; issue-specific meetings, etc- In all aspects of the role, work closely with devolved nations / public affairs colleagues and, where appropriate, link with other areas of the organisation

External duties:
- Develop and maintain an informed knowledge base on the financial services industry, consumer bodies, and other organisations, across the devolved nations- Build and enhance networks across the political environment and the wider public affairs world to gather intelligence and identify emerging risks and opportunities- Attend external events / round tables / forums etc- Understand the FCA's priorities and key messages; use influencing skills to explain and promote these priorities to stakeholders both in-person and in writing- Relationship-manage a portfolio of influential stakeholders. This will include: developing relationships with politicians, their staff and other stakeholders; explaining FCA policy and action to politicians, their staff and other public affairs stakeholders; listening to the concerns of stakeholders and ensuring that intelligence is relayed to colleagues in the wider FCA and that the FCA responds appropriately; maintaining accurate records to ensure that we recognise stakeholder priorities

Line management duties:
- Reporting to the Head of External Affairs, you will manage two teams, our engagement across the devolved nations and with firms and consumer groups- For the Devolved Nations, this consists of three Senior Associates - each accountable for external affairs activities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland-
- For the Firms and Consumer Groups team, this consists of managing directly two Senior Associates and indirectly two Associates, you will be accountable for delivery of the team’s work and all aspects of people managementWhat you will get from the role- An opportunity to take on a high-profile, wide-ranging and interesting role which helps to ensure that the FCA is a regulator for the whole of the UK- A unique chance to help shape financial regulation across the devolved nations through stakeholder management and intelligence gathering- An opportunity to engage with senior stakeholders from across different sectors including financial services, politics, consumer organisations and others

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays- Private healthcare with Bupa- A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age - up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)- Life assurance of eight times your basic salary- Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum- Knowledge of the political landscape and parliamentary procedures (some or all of the devolved nations), gained in a relevant environment such as public affairs consultancy, in-house public

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