Public Affairs Manager - Health/Social Care

One of the largest property firms, with a unique twist, are looking for an outstanding Public Affairs Manager to join their team. This business-critical role will involve developing stakeholder engagement, parliamentary engagement and both local and national government relations activities – with the aim of ensuring that the company voice is heard and the company’s influence develops among key national and local decision-makers.

Job purpose

• To support on developing and executing the company’s public affairs strategy in to ensure maximum influence.
• To implement the full range of public affairs activities for the company. 
• The Public Affairs Manager will use strong interpersonal and to ensure that staff are well briefed on key parliamentary and government developments and assist them in developing local stakeholder relationships
• The Public Affairs Manager will work as part of the national communications team, supporting the Senior Public Affairs Manager a
• Customer-focus will be a passion. Strategic thinking will concentrate on cementing a customer focus among their colleagues involved in public affairs and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• To deliver a Public Affairs strategy to give the company maximum influence.
• To support the Senior Public Affairs Manager in providing effective and confidential management of key political correspondence into the office of the Chair and Chief Executive Officer.
• Monitor  the  budget for  Public affairs and take responsibility for purchasing any relevant equipment.

Stakeholder relations

• To execute consistent corporate stakeholder relations activity
• To monitor stakeholder opinion and policy developments, and brief the executive team on key developments 
• To establish and maintain key relationships with other industry bodies.

Planning

• To work alongside the appointed PR Agency to plan projects and potential resource to support them
• Monitor and evaluate stakeholder and public affairs activities and their impact.

The ideal candidate will have:

• degree education
• post grad qualification or experience of working at a similar level in public affairs or communications
• excellent understanding of parliamentary process
• significant experience and knowledge of the operation of the health/social care sector
• experience of conducting self directed research
• strong communications skills
• experience of drafting briefing papers at senior management level
• strong IT skills