External Affairs and Policy Officer

2 weeks ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Skills For Care Full time

**Job Title**:External Affairs and Policy Officer (Thought Leadership)**

**Hours**:36**

**Job Status**:Permanent**

**Location**:Home-based**

**Salary**:£31,435.25 per annum**

**Closing Date**:25 September 2023**

**Interview Date**:w/c 16 October 2023 (Remote)**

Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.

Our practical support helps leaders and managers **recruit**, **develop,**and **lead** their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for an External Affairs and Policy Officer to join our External Affairs and Policy team in a brand-new role that’s all about communicating what we know.

If you’d like to use thought leadership to help solve some of the biggest policy challenges facing the adult social care sector - enabling people to access the advice, care and support they need to live life to the fullest - this could be the job for you.

Reporting to the Head of External Affairs and Policy, this role will help to drive and deliver our policy, public affairs and other important external influencing and relationship-building work by producing things like speeches, thought leadership articles, briefings, press releases and content for social media. You’ll be working closely with colleagues across the organisation - including our Leadership and our Marketing and Communications teams - to do this.

We need someone with exceptional communication and influencing skills, great judgement, and lots of initiative - someone who can spot what needs to be done and come up with solutions without waiting to be told. You’ll need to be able to build strong relationships with colleagues, media, and other stakeholders alike.

You don’t need to have worked in a policy or public affairs role before - we’re looking for someone with experience working in communications or as a journalist. You also don’t need to have knowledge and experience of social care policy - the most important thing is that you’re able to build this up quickly.

Apart from occasional travel for meetings and events, this is a home-based role - with all the flexibility that comes with that. We’re an organisation and team that really care about wellbeing and work/life balance, so it’s all about the work you do - not where you do it.

If you’re interested in this role, please visit the website for the full job description.

**At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.


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