Policy and Influencing Manager; FTC

Overview

We are looking for a Policy and Influencing Manager to help us achieve our ambition to improve urban health in the UK and beyond. Policy and Influencing is a fast-developing function at Guys and St Thomas Foundation, established to turbo-charge our influence on decision-making to improve urban health and health inequity.

Working across the organisation—particularly with colleagues leading our urban health programmes—the Policy and Influencing function applies the insight generated by our programmes to raise the profile and influence decision-making on the issues we work on. You will be an experienced public affairs and policy professional with experience influencing national decision-making. You will lead the development of compelling influencing strategies for each programme and deliver innovative and varied policy and influencing activity to achieve these strategies.

This is a rare opportunity to work in an innovative organisation that tests new approaches and takes risks.

You will bring sharp political insight and a passion for complex policy issues to work closely with programme colleagues to maximise the impact of our urban health programmes. This might involve commissioning original research to support policy development, working with partner organisations to design campaigning partnerships, or funding others to trial new ways of involving communities affected by health inequity in policy decision-making.

You will work with the Head of Policy and Influencing (Impact on Urban Health) on Parliamentary and Government engagement for your programmes, and closely with Communications Managers assigned to each programme to create impactful communications to influence. You will be excited by the opportunity to work in an organisation that prioritises diversity, equity and inclusion in all we do.

As Policy and Influencing Manager, this may involve working with partners to explore who we can support in their own influencing activity, designing research and policy reports that bring the voice of people most impacted by the issues we work on to the debate, or developing our own policy positions in an inclusive and equitable way. You will be a team player who enjoys working in a matrix across multiple teams within the organisation.

About Us

Impact on Urban Health is part of Guys & St Thomas Foundation. Our collective mission is to build the foundations of a healthier society. This is fuelled by our desire to be more than the sum of our parts. We are curious, think big and are willing to take risks. You will work alongside talented people from diverse backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares.

This is a friendly place to work with opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver compelling influencing strategies for two Urban Health Programmes
• Develop investment partnerships with a particular influencing focus within these programmes
• Act as a source of policy expertise and political insight for colleagues across the organisation, proactively briefing on key political events and policy developments
• Develop a policy bank of evidence-based and up-to-date policy for each programme, key messaging and policy asks to maximise the impact of the insight generated by our work
• Lead horizon scanning to identify proactive and reactive influencing opportunities, and deliver this activity, in partnership with internal and external colleagues
• Work closely with Communications Managers to develop and deliver impactful communications to influence
• Bring a diversity, equity and inclusion lens to all our policy and influencing activity, whether in how we work with partners or in our own systems and processes

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills at all levels
• Enjoys working in places with a clear and ambitious mission, a matrix structure and ways of working that challenge the norm
• Willingness to prioritise diversity, equity and inclusion in all our work
• The ability to develop expertise and…