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  • Birmingham, West Midlands
  • £28,500
  • (Permanent)
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The Organisation

Would you like to be part of an organisation that helps shape the world? This international membership organisation promotes and advances civil engineering around the world. This organisation is the thought leader in the built environment a centre for the exchange of specialist knowledge, and a provider of resources to encourage innovation and excellence in the profession worldwide.

The Role (close date 13 March)

They are recruiting for a Public Affairs Specialist to deliver public affairs strategies, produce high quality events and policy material to maximise their East and West Midland’s public affairs goals.

Please note that the Public Affairs Specialist role can be situated in either their Birmingham or Nottingham offices.

Duties & Responsibilities

- Maintain and develop relationships with key individuals to assist the region in influencing policy development and implementation, reflecting their position and priorities for infrastructure.

- Undertake research and draw on the expertise of their members through our Panels and wider networks to ensure robust policy position statements such as State of the Nation reports, consultation responses and manifestos.

- Work with the Regional Director to develop, project manage, and deliver strategies for both East Midlands and West Midlands Presidents visits and annual dinners to each region.

- Work with the Regional Director to develop, project manage, and deliver the regions public affairs events, this may include but is not limited to the Chair’s programmes, fellows events, roundtables and debates for both East and West Midlands.

- Research potential award nominations for East and West Midlands awards in collaboration with the Communications Executive.

- To write speeches and briefings for major events

What are they looking for?

Candidates should be highly motivated and organised with a strong interest in public affairs and government. Applicants will have excellent writing and proofing skills, scrupulous eye for detail and possess the ability to digest and write policy documents. Strong press release and speech writing skills are also highly desirable.

The ideal candidate will have experience of delivering events to target and possess a thorough understanding of current events and delegate registration processes. The successful candidate will be able to manage a varied and demanding workload and work independently. They will have the ability to engage and motivate volunteers and staff, and optimise limited resources. The post requires project management skills to deliver policy and public affairs outputs and a working knowledge of MS Office.

Group benefits include:

- 25 days annual leave
- Up to eight per cent of salary contributed to a personal pension scheme
- 24 hour employee support line
- Death in service benefit equivalent to one year’s salary
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership savings with the Gymflex scheme