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The Person

Experience and technical skills

The employee will be able to demonstrate the following experience and technical skills:

Essential:

  • A proven track record in senior public affairs, government relations or stakeholder engagement, ideally within a regulated or public-interest sector
  • Experienced leader of strategic teams and proven experience of having led and facilitated action in matrix environments, ideally with investment professionals or within financial services
  • A proven strategic leader, credible across the organisation, with the Executive and the Board, and with external stakeholders
  • Ownership of stakeholder engagement strategies and approaches
  • Significant strategic partnership management and partnership development expertise; experience of having built partnerships from scratch, and having used these to unlock value or solve societal problems
  • Deep contextual awareness, honed through having operated in externally-changing, highly visible roles and environments
  • Stakeholder management, public relations or public affairs experience in the pensions or financial services or an adjacent sector

Desirable:

  • Familiarity with ESG frameworks, stewardship codes and impact reporting standards.
  • Experience of having worked in strategic and/or leadership roles in Government, Arms Lengths Bodies, Public Corporations or other public-sector adjacent organisations

Personal attributes required

The role will require someone with the following personal attributes:

Collaboration will be key to the success of this role, we’re looking for someone who can bring people together on a journey and lead through influence. This role will suit someone who:

  • Comfortable with being highly visible, internally and externally
  • Curious and always keen to learn and grow; wants to build new kinds of organisations which have purpose and positive social impact at their core
  • Wants to be part of a changing organisation, and is able to coach and lead others through change
  • Is proactive, resilient and adaptable and enjoys seeking out opportunities to add value, and building new relationships and ways of working in the process
  • Can build communities of practice, both internally and externally and seeks opportunities to learn from other environments and apply that in new contexts
  • An effective communicator; not just in terms of out-bound communication, but also able to hear what isn’t being said, and think critically about the options and approaches available to us
  • Unphased by obstacles and is a natural builder of the networks and relationships required to solve problems not just within the organisation, but with wider external stakeholders
  • Creative and commercially minded; trained to seek opportunities, identify risks and take swift, sensible, action

Education, qualification and professional membership requirements

  • Experience and aptitude are more important than professional qualifications