Senior External Affairs Manager
As a Senior External Affairs Manager, you will deliver external affairs campaigns that focus on partnership-driven communications and showcase stories of businesses, workers and communities benefiting from government policies. You will build relationships with influential external partners to generate compelling content, amplify advocacy, and support campaign priorities across the department. Collaborating closely with press, digital, marketing, policy and ministerial visit colleagues, you will play a central role in an integrated approach to stakeholder engagement and strategic communications. Your day-to-day work involves stakeholder mapping, insight gathering, and developing systems to share intelligence across communications campaigns.
What they're looking for
- Proven experience of managing external affairs or advocacy campaigns
- Ability to work with influential businesses and stakeholders
- Experience communicating with and influencing senior stakeholders
- Strong organisational, planning and prioritisation skills
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to UK, Irish, Commonwealth, EU and Turkish nationals.
Selection process
Interviews will be conducted virtually. Sift is likely to take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after.
Apply on Civil Service Jobs ↗Originally listed on Civil Service Jobs.