Senior Research Manager (Toolkit)

Senior Policy Manager (Maternity Cover)

• Full time: 35 hrs per week
• Fixed term contract for 12 months, with possibility this will be extended, beginning mid-June 2024
• Full time salary: £49,421 - £51,923 (rates apply from 1st April)
• Location: Office in Rivington Street EC2A 3AY, with opportunity for blended working

About us

Transparency International is a global movement sharing one vision: a world in which government politics, business and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. Transparency International UK is the UK national chapter of this movement. We work with the British government, parliamentarians, civil society and the private sector to tackle corruption at home, addressing the UK’s global corruption footprint and helping multinational companies prevent corruption by operating with integrity. We are also home to two major global programmes tackling corruption in the Defence and Security sector and Global Health on behalf of the wider Transparency International movement.

The UK Programme seeks to put an end to corruption in the UK and the role of the UK in facilitating corruption abroad. We expose and tackle corruption and hold power to account here in the UK through robust research, investigations and advocacy. To do that we need to understand the way corruption works and the systems that enable it.

Our work has already been key to delivering:

• Four major pieces of Economic Crime legislation making it harder for dirty money to find its way to the UK
• The introduction of a register to reveal the true owners of foreign companies owning property in the UK
• The Bribery Act - regarded as the toughest piece of legislation of its kind.
• Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) – an investigative tool to help law enforcement act on corrupt assets.
• Promised reforms to lobbying transparency and regulation of post-political appointments.

We work with the UK and devolved governments, the private sector and civil society to create a UK free from corruption.

About the role

As Senior Policy Manager (Maternity Cover), you will be responsible for leading TI-UK’s advocacy work in the national political sphere, particularly in Westminster, managing the delivery of strategy and engagement on legislation, and MP and Peer engagement across the UK Programme. You will line manage the UK Programme’s Advocacy Officer, and advocate effectively for priority reforms to senior stakeholders while ensuring the team’s policy experts are brought in at relevant stages.

In addition to this, you will:

• Develop and maintain technical expertise on relevant legislation/policy to enable you to engage with senior stakeholders in Parliament.
• Contribute to development and delivery of TI-UK’s strategic engagement with political parties at the national level throughout the electoral cycle: for example, driving TI-UK’s strategy for engagement with UK-wide political parties, before and after a General election. This role is envisaged to operate with autonomy at a senior level while ensuring any outputs or external representation is consistent with TI-UK’s strategy, tone and usual ways of working.
• Line manage the Advocacy Officer, supporting and guiding them to deliver on agreed objectives, and assessing their objectives, assignments and performance.
• Ensure outputs are accurate and effective, and reviewed by the relevant technical policy experts (as required) within the team.
• Be influential in brokering aligned approaches across a diverse range of external partners.
• Provide guidance for key messaging in external communications to amplify TI-UK’s policy recommendations, with e.g. media statements, op eds, blogs, speeches, advocacy briefings, consultation submissions.
• Design and deliver advocacy projects across multiple grants and thematic areas (dirty money and political integrity), devising and planning advocacy activities. The role will liaise with relevant team experts for input and sign off on advocacy plans and activities.
• Oversee the team’s monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) impact development and processes, and may be asked to contribute to donor reporting and fundraising (especially with regard to impact metrics).

About you

To be successful in the role you will have…

Essential

• Substantial experience leading advocacy strategy and engagement in Westminster
• Experience of successfully engaging senior political stakeholders, including members of the Shadow Cabinet, Select Committee Chairs, political advisers and senior backbenchers in the House of Commons and House of Lords
• Significant experience working in coalition with All-Party Parliamentary Groups and/or other informal networks in Parliament
• Technical expertise relating to the passage of primary legislation through Parliament
• Experience campaigning for, and securing, legislative or regulatory Change
• Solid organisational skills and the ability to manage a number of priorities/deadlines
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent communications skills, being able to communicate to a variety of audiences and at different levels.

Desirable

• An in-depth understanding of money laundering and political corruption in the UK, including current legal and regulatory frameworks

Benefits

In exchange we will offer:

• A competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Up to 6% contributory pension
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced sickness and family friendly policies
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A flexible and friendly working environment, with the opportunity for blended working (more details of this can be found on our website)

The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 9th April 2024. Interviews will be conducted on Friday, 12th April 2024 over video call.