Senior External Affairs Manager

3 weeks ago

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Government Legal Department Full time

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a communications or public affairs professional to join the external affairs team as a senior external affairs manager. As a relatively new team within GLD, our work in external affairs is developing and varied.

You’ll work with internal and external stakeholders from across GLD, other government departments, and the wider legal sector to identify and shape engagement opportunities that raise GLD’s profile, builds advocacy and promotes the department's priorities.

The ability to build trusted relationships, collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders, and identify opportunities for partnership activity is at the heart of this role.

The role would suit a confident self-starter with experience of working within complex stakeholder landscapes, managing events and thriving under pressure while maintaining sound judgement.

We are a friendly, inclusive and motivated team and we place high value on diversity and inclusion and encourage candidates from a range of backgrounds to apply.

The Role Outline

As a senior member of the external affairs team, you’ll support the head of external affairs to deliver stakeholder engagement and communications strategies, your responsibilities will include:

  • Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders including our executive team, senior leaders and corporate services colleagues to build strong relationships and provide effective communication advice.
  • Building and managing relationships with other government departments and legal sector organisations, capturing insight, sharing relevant information, and identifying opportunities to collaborate on communications activity.
  • Creating, delivering, and managing strategic engagement plans to support GLD strategic priorities.
  • Leading on the conception, organisation and delivery of events and stakeholder engagement in line with GCS best practice.
  • Provide and oversee stakeholder monitoring, sharing note-worthy news with our colleagues on a regular basis and using insight to ensure we are listening to and engaging the right people.
  • Working closely with the wider communications: media and internal communications, to support the delivery of multi-channel activity with clear objectives and consistent messaging.
  • Evaluating the success of stakeholder engagement and identifying creative ways to showcase the team's work sharing and embedding GCS best practice to improve the quality of stakeholder engagement.
  • Line manage up to 2 team members and support their career development.

Person specification

Behaviours

Below are details of the Success Profiles that make up this role.

You will be expected to provide evidence to show how you meet the criteria at selection and interview stage.

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

  • Communicating and Influencing (lead behaviour)
  • Seeing the bigger picture
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Leadership

Experience (Essential Criteria)

  • Experience of working in communications and engagement.
  • Strong collaboration skills and experience of working with stakeholders, senior leaders and competing priorities.
  • Excellent judgement to spot communications opportunities and risks, being alert to the wider government and news agenda.
  • A proven ability to actively develop and nurture relationships, and confidently engage with senior colleagues and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to absorb complex information quickly, and communicate key points to a variety of audiences in creative, innovative, and engaging ways.
  • Excellent verbal and written skills with experience of producing quality concise briefings for senior colleagues.
  • Experience of working independently and using initiative to drive work forward, with a sharp focus on deliverables.

Technical

  • Implementation
  • Insight
  • Ideas
  • Impact

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,728, Government Legal Department contributes £11,509 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A with an employer contribution of

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