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Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer

Reference: DEC20170850
Expiry date: 2018-01-14 10:00:00.000
Location: London
Salary: £31,959.00 - £35,075.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension scheme, voucher schemes, initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance and committment to learning and professional development
Attachments: SeniorPolicyandPublicAffairsOfficerDec17.pdf

Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer

£31,959 - £35,075

London

Permanent / 37.5 hours per week

We are looking for a senior policy and public affairs professional to join our Policy, Campaigns and Research team and lead on aspects of St Mungo’s policy and public affairs work to influence changes in national and local policy in order to help achieve the goals in our organisational strategy. 

At a time when homelessness is rising up the political agenda, we are looking for a dynamic individual who can make the most of this exciting opportunity to influence major changes in policy and legislation and ensure the voices of homeless people are well represented in such decisions.

Your ability to get to grips with complex policy issues, develop clear policy asks and design and implement robust public affairs plans will be crucial to this role.

As our Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer, you will:

  • Contribute to the development and delivery of St Mungo’s influencing strategy
  • Plan and deliver policy and public affairs projects and activities that support the organisation’s overall policy influencing objectives
  • Build effective relationships with policymakers and other stakeholders
  • Provide line management to junior Policy and Public Affairs staff and volunteers as appropriate
  • Ensure that our clients are at the heart of all our influencing work

To succeed you will need experience of developing and implementing successful policy and public affairs strategies, in addition to a well-developed knowledge of homelessness or a closely related policy area.

Other requirements include the ability to represent an organisation in the public arena and building effective and collaborative partnerships across different sectors.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities in support of their personal and professional development

If you believe that you have what we are looking for, and have an interest in working for a charity which makes a real difference to the lives of people who are homeless, we would love to hear from you.

To find out more and apply please click the ‘Apply’ button.

Closing date for applications: 10.00am 14 January 2018.

Interviews and assessments: 24/25 January 2018.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) applicants, as they are under-represented within this team.

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2017, we are also proud to have been awarded BITC 2017 Race Equality Award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.