Communications & Policy Analyst

• Start dates
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  October 2025 and January 2026

On 22 July 2025, the UK government raised the salary thresholds for Skilled Worker visas, which means our entry-level Analyst position is no longer a pathway to this visa route – even for those currently on Graduate visas.

Milltown Partners is a global advisory firm working with influential organisations and individuals on the communications and public policy challenges that define their reputations.

We are looking for brilliant junior talent who are beginning their career and want to deliver communications and policy advice to category-defining companies.

Milltown Partners is a transatlantic advisory firm working with influential companies, organizations and individuals on their reputation-defining communications and policy challenges. We work with established and emerging technology companies, global investors, iconic brands, renowned sports franchises and influential individuals. We collaborate across locations and disciplines to combine our judgement, deep subject-matter expertise and innovative use of technology to deliver impact for our clients.

We root our strategies in data insights and research on the audiences that matter, messages that work, and communications channels that deliver. We are an independent, employee-owned company, which means we have the freedom to invest in our people and our culture, and everyone shares in our success.

Analysts provide the research and analysis on which all our advice rests. They monitor discussion of our clients’ interests among media and stakeholders. All analysts produce excellent written work for a range of audiences and channels. They make valuable contributions to internal and external meetings offering both their point of view and organizational skills.

• Research and analysis: finding and drawing insights from data and evidence to inform our advice.
  • Using research tools and platforms – including Factiva, Meltwater, Claude and Gemini – to conduct high quality desk research, media analysis and insight generation
  • Following a wide range of relevant industry and client news across multiple channels to understand the issues our clients are facing, including the views of supporters, critics, regulators and consumers
  • Using AI tools proficiently in order to contribute to high-quality outputs that met client needs and our standards in both quality and compliance
  • Contributing to the new business process through research
• Strategic thinking: identifying the goal, and implications of different courses of action, to recommend the most effective approach.
  • Taking into account the client’s overall objectives and core audiences to ensure work and recommendations are relevant and useful
  • Participating in team discussions to develop strategic and creative thinking for clients
  • Developing your own interest in areas relevant to our clients and sharing your insights with clients and internal colleagues (eg. technology, policy or venture capital)
• Written and verbal communication: expressing ideas fluently and persuasively for a range of different audiences and channels
  • Consistently producing rigorous, accurate and detailed work
  • Drafting compelling written content and supporting the execution of significant communications or policy moments (e.g. media briefings, responses to new legislation) Learning how to tailor the style and content of verbal and written communication to different audiences and channels
  • Clearly articulating recommendations and processes to implement them
• Project management: planning and delivering priorities to meet agreed goals, timetable and budget
  • Organizing yourself and others to support the delivery of client or internal work in a timely fashion
  • Taking responsibility for team administration across client and internal needs (e.g. media and policy monitoring, agendas, scheduling calls)
  • Adapting your project management style for different audiences
  • Effectively practice time management to balance priorities across clients and within projects
  • Actively communicating to keep teams informed and adapt to issues as they emerge
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