Public Affairs Officer

What You Will Do As Public Affairs Officer
This role supports the Public Affairs team in achieving the organisation's Public Affairs objectives, with a focus on parliamentary engagement, Public Affairs events, and developing the PPL Public Affairs network.

Key Activities

• Assist Public affairs Lead with strategy around parliamentary engagement, including the House of Commons and the House of Lords
• Represent PPL and engage with Parliamentarians and Political Advisers, including representing PPL at meetings with Senior Shadow Ministers and MPs, including Shadow Cabinet, adapting presenting style accordingly
• Support in developing and growing the PPL Public Affairs Network – including engaging senior public affairs staff in our supported charities and designing quarterly events to maintain and grow interest.
• Public Affairs lead on IT projects, including Parliamentary App development and DeHavilland
• Build relationships with the Charities team through attendance at Charities Department meetings, building in that team's understanding of public affairs work and strategy and increasing the public affairs team's knowledge of the work of the Charities Department.
• Operational budget responsibility for Public Affairs Events (Receptions, Party Conferences, MP workshops).
• Responsible for filing Scottish Lobbying Register returns
• Support People's Postcode Lottery's Public Affairs work, working with the Public Affairs team to deliver the organisation's Public Affairs objectives.
• Keep up to date on developments relating to public policy as it affects People's Postcode Lottery, and the wider society lottery and charity sectors.
• Draft, policy briefings, PQs, letters and speaking notes.
• Work with People's Postcode Lottery's Communications team to draft quarterly Parliamentarians Newsletters
• Support the organisation and implementation of People's Postcode Lottery's presence at political party conferences.
• Support sector-wide engagement activities
• Support the organisation of People's Postcode Lottery Parliamentary Receptions
• Leads engagement with Parliamentarians around local grant funding opportunities.

About You

• Demonstrable experience in Public Affairs, either with a Parliamentarian or in a charity sector role.
• Experience and knowledge of politics, parliamentary procedure, and government structures.
• Experience of dealing with civil servants and parliamentarians.
• Ability to think strategically, identify what needs to happen, who needs to be involved and then deliver
• Proven experience in building trust and developing internal and external networks to maximise opportunities
• Strong understanding of the public policy environment and knowledge of the UK political and media environment.
• A good track record of stakeholder management across the public and voluntary sectors.
• Knowledge of stakeholder management tools to track and inform political engagement
• Knowledge and understanding of policy development and legislation within the UK government
• Strong writing, communication and budgeting
• Experience in a public affairs or similar role.
• Knowledge of charity lottery law and regulation and the political history of charity lottery reform is desirable.
• Knowledge of Early Day Motions, Parliamentary Questions (oral and written), Select Committee operation, Statutory Instruments.

Indicative salary level of £37,000 – to £42,000, dependent on skills and experience.
We are flexible on location and welcome applicants based in either Edinburgh or London.
Application Details
Applications close:
Monday 8th December
First round Interviews:
Early January
Second round interviews:
Mid January
Good luck to all applicants

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We offer
A Rewarding salary
A Competitive Salary, a variable year-end bonus, 36 days' holiday a year based on a 37.5 hour week, and flexible working hours.

Development
The opportunity to develop your career. All team members have the option of applying for funding for a chosen training topic of their choice.

Work And Travel Benefits
You'll get an Ridacard, which offers unlimited travel across the Lothian Bus Network, even outside working hours

Pension
Our pension is with Scottish Widows Personal Pension Scheme, we contribute 10%, on top of your contribution of 4%.

Fit & Healthy together
Free private healthcare including dental for all team members and covered from your first day.

Your wellbeing is important to us, so we have 24 hour access to support services such as mental health support, physiotherapy and remote GPs.

Family Time
Maternity Pay: 16 weeks at 100% of average weekly earnings followed by 23 weeks at 50%.

Paternity Pay: 4 weeks at 100%.

Shared Parental Pay: 14 weeks at 100% of average weekly earnings followed by 23 weeks at 50% of average weekly earnings.

Meet the team
Postcode Lottery Group is a private company, fully owned by a non-profit foundation. Our international team works across Europe in our welcoming offices in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Edinburgh, Dusseldorf, and London, and are joining forces every day to further grow the Postcode Lottery's impact.

People's Postcode Lottery has been helping support charities and good causes throughout Britain and beyond since 2005. Our mission is to help raise funds for charities and good causes and increase awareness of their work. Players have raised more than £1.5 billion for thousands of charities and local good causes.

This role sits within our Public Affairs team. Promoting People's Postcode Lottery's policy objectives with the UK, Scottish and Welsh Governments, the team is responsible for managing engagement with key political stakeholders, raising awareness of the difference players are making in constituencies throughout Britain and affecting change for a more progressive system of regulations for charity lotteries.

About Us
A marketing-driven charity organisation
The Postcode Lottery Group is a marketing-driven international non-profit organisation. We operate lotteries to raise funds for a fairer, greener and healthier world. Our players win with their neighbours and generate money for charities together – it's a win-win

Our purpose: a better world, for everyone
Since our start in 1989, we have raised over €14.5 billion for thousands of charities. Together with our players and 1,500 fellow team members in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Norway, you'll be helping to create a better world every day.

Inclusion and equal opportunities
People are at the heart of what we do. Whether it's our team, our players, or the thousands of good causes supported, our aim is to play our part in creating a fairer, more equal world. We are open to ideas and are committed to creating a culture that is inclusive, representative and celebrates diversity in everyone. But we are not perfect. We will always strive to do better – that's just who we are.