Strategic External Relations Specialist

6 days ago

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Government Legal Department Full time

Government Legal Department Overview

We are the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high-profile matters that frequently attract scrutiny in Parliament and the media.

Our work includes:

  • Developing and drafting legislation
  • Providing legal advice on policies
  • Securing our economic and trade relationships
  • Ensuring value from commercial contracts worth billions of pounds
  • Providing the Civil Service’s employment law advice

As a key part of delivering the Government's priorities, our success depends on our people.

Our department is a non-ministerial government department, sponsored by the Attorney General. We are headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary, and employ nearly 3000 people, including over 2000 legal professionals. Our offices are located in London, Leeds, Bristol, Croydon, and Manchester, as well as overseas. We provide specialist legal services, including Litigation, Employment, and Commercial Law, as well as advising most Government Departments on the policies and services they deliver.

We also rely on a range of vital corporate services, essential to the smooth and efficient running of the Department. These services provide the foundation for us to deliver outstanding legal services. Our corporate functions include Strategy, HR, Finance, Digital, Data and Technology, Communications, Security, Commercial, and Project delivery.

Job Summary

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

You will work with internal and external stakeholders from across the Department, other government departments, and the wider legal sector to identify and shape engagement opportunities that raise our profile, build advocacy, and promote 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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 the Department's strategic priorities.
  • Leading on the conception, organisation, and delivery of events and stakeholder engagement in line with GCS best practice.
  • Providing and overseeing stakeholder monitoring, sharing noteworthy 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 teams 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 managing up to 2 team members and supporting their career development.

Requirements

Behaviours

We will assess you against the following behaviours during the selection process:

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

Experience

  • 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

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,728, the Government Legal Department contributes £11,509 towards your membership of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. You will also have access to learning and development tailored to your role, flexible working options, an inclusive and diverse work environment, and opportunities for career growth and progression.

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