Policy Officer

**Policy Officer**

**Salary (circa 29,000 - £33,000 (dependent on experience)**

**Permanent**

**Stevenage/London (with Hybrid Working)**

What if you contributed to influencing the global engineering community?

What if you worked in a team that advised government and policymakers on matters relating to engineering and technology?

What if you were our Policy Officer

At the IET, making our world a better place starts by creating a better place for our people. At the IET you’ll have more than just a job. Our work is exciting and challenging, connecting the people who solve the problems that matter. It means working withus has real meaning and impact, and you’ll grow - professionally and personally - in ways you never thought possible. We’re also making significant investments in our people, including providing a modern, vibrant workplace and embracing hybrid working.

**What you’ll be doing**

As the Policy Officer, you will support colleagues to develop the content strategy and dissemination campaigns to get the right information to the key policymaker audience at the right time and in the right way. This is delivered through a range of outputssuch as government engagement, reports, consultation responses, surveys, and media engagement.

**What we hope you can bring to the role**

You will be a strong team player with sound organisational and planning skills with the ability to work under pressure. An excellent communicator with great interpersonal skills and a keen interest in public policy, public affairs and ideally engineeringand technology

**We’d love to get to know you**

Is Imposter syndrome creeping in? Don’t worry - we’d rather hear from you this time than not hear from you at all Read on for a little more information about the role; but also, keep in mind that we’re open to discussing flexible ways of working, includingreduced hours and working in an agile way, supported by a hybrid working framework that allows you to find the best place to do your best work.

**A little more about the role**
- Work with the Senior Policy Lead to support a broad portfolio of work across the engineering sectors
- Identify policy areas and contribute to policy thinking and drafting material from project group and panel activities including reports, briefings and presentation excellent
- Engage with a wide range of stakeholders to understand the industry and academic attitudes to key policy agendas and increase the impact of the IET’s work - both within the IET and externally
- Understand complex work from stakeholders and turn this into simple policy briefings for Government.
- Work with our volunteers to draft responses to consultations and submissions
- Work closely with the Public Affairs, Content, Strategic Marketing, and Communications teams to plan the development and release of information to help maximise the impact of our policy and insight outputs
- Shape our engagement with key public policy events and discussions and coordinate impactful roundtables and workshops in response to requests for engineering input into a range of policy challenges.
- Support the IET’s work in Public Affairs, including stakeholder mapping, identifying political campaigns and increasing relations between politicians and the IET.
- Comply with departmental processes including monthly reporting on KPIs, contribution to team meetings, responsibility for budget within their areas, formal consultation processes, volunteer registers, and financial processes.
- Support voluntary panels and their members.
- Undertake any other duties and projects as required.

**A little more about what we’re looking for**
- Having worked in Parliament, or with a thinktank, trade organization or membership body would be desirable.
- Excellent written and verbal skills and an ability to communicate with impact.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills able to collaborate across professional boundaries and proactively develop and nurture networks
- Ability to communicate complex ideas in a clear and compelling way
- An interest in public policy, public affairs and ideally engineering and technology
- A creative and critical thinker who is open to new ideas, and enjoys collaborative ways of working
- A strong team player who is also able to demonstrate initiative, with sound organisational and planning skills, and the ability to work under pressure and to deadline
- Project management experience would be an asset, but is not essential
- Strong analytical skills and ability to assimilate complex information quickly
- Experience of working with committees and/or volunteers

**What if you could be you?**_The IET is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To find out more, head over to our 'Work for the IET’ site._