AddressWe are recruiting for a Senior PublicAffairs & Events Strategy Manager here at City Guilds to take our strategy to the next level, bringing our business insight internally and our policy positioning externally together in an impactful Public Affairs and external Events Strategy function. This role will see you championing skills development through a Public Affairs lens and engaging a wide variety of stakeholders through events in the benefits of skills development on behalf of City & Guilds!
You will be tasked with defining, designing, and implementing our Public Affairs & Policy engagement strategy taking a leading role as an internal and public advocate for City & Guilds, helping to promote us as the voice for skills across the UK and on an international stage. This will also include the definition and execution of our Events Strategy in a way that amplifies this work.
You will lead and manage a small team with Policy research/insights, external events and Public Affairs partnerships capability and work in a broader directorate where you will apply an integrated and collaborative style to maximise your own impact by joining forces with others.
You will be working on a hybrid basis with a mix of working from home and our London office (approx 1-2 days per week).
This appointment will be made on merit.
We believe that diversity and inclusion strengthens and enriches us, and that it is the responsibility of everyone at the City & Guilds Group to drive this value. As ethnic minority groups and disabled people are currently under-represented within the Group, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from these communities.
About The Role
You will lead on our Public Affairs and Policy insights functions and ensure that City & Guilds is recognised as a voice for skills with a range of influential stakeholders. This work will also support our commercial planning and help to ensure our business ambitions are met. You will also oversee a range of external events activity that contributes to the Public Affairs, Policy engagement and commercial marketing ambitions of City &Guilds. This will be designed through management of the Senior Events & Partnerships Manager and liaison with the Director of Marketing.
Our successful candidate will work with key public and professional bodies, industry stakeholders and politicians/advisors to shape and influence skills related policy in the UK Government, devolved Nations and MCA/LSIP regions.
The Key five functions of this role will be:
- Strategic Level Public Affairs Engagement & Responsibility
- External Events Strategy Programme and resource demands
- Wider integrated team management within Directorate
- Autonomy to activate campaigns and generate impact evidence
- A high degree of proactivity and creativity.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will have in-depth experience of leading and developing a multi-disciplined team across Public Affairs, Research and Insights and External Events. You should bring significant experience of influencing and building relationships across a diverse range of senior stakeholders and sectors delivering high profile public facing policy campaigns.
You will have a track record in leading highly impactful policy change campaigns with strong engagement and communications to help bring networks together. You should have experience of drafting materials such as parliamentary briefing documents, press notices and policy reports. Excellent communication skills will be needed including the ability to write impactful briefings for internal and external stakeholders.
You will have experience of creating and managing events programmes that help drive our commercial ambitions, Public Affairs engagement, policy alignment and raise our external profile.
Our Successful candidate will conduct research on key issues, building a strong evidence base to support policy prioritising and messaging. You will have experience of instigating and capturing research and insights to back up policy asks with impactful evidence that can help to shift outcomes.
You will have an in-depth understanding of government, parliament and political processes as well as substantial agency management experience.
You should be highly collaborative, bringing a creative flair finding new ways to bring solutions to long term societal issues.
Our Story And Mission
Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, were proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.
Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.
At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.
We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.
Our rich experience means were uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, eLearning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training, and consultancy.
Our success is driven by the people we work with. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer an equal opportunity to all our staff and we value diversity within our inclusive culture. We recognise that a diverse workforce is the only way we will achieve our ambitious business goals, so we work hard to be flexible to accommodate everyone.
What We Offer
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.
Youll receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes a great base salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, private healthcare, volunteering opportunities and much more.
Next Steps and how to apply
If you think this is the role and organisation for you then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and complete our short application form using the apply button.
We shortlist for our vacancies on an ongoing basis, and we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. Please can you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
City & Guilds are a Disability confident employer. Please let us know if you require any support/adjustments at your interview and if successful any adjustments needed to support you in your role. If this is required, please email; careers@cityandguilds.com
