Public Affairs Manager

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Job description

We are a UK wide membership organisation for all health professionals working in adult, paediatric and adolescent rheumatology. BSR works to promote excellence in the care of people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disorders and to support those delivering it, involving patients and carers at every step.

Job Summary

We are recruiting for a Public Affairs Manager to join the External Affairs team in the Practice and Quality Directorate. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with excellent interpersonal skills who will be responsible for developing and maintaining stakeholder engagement with health, political and public figures.

You will be responsible for driving forward the Society's public affairs agenda and support the development of the Society's leadership voice, profile and influencing function. You'll play a crucial part in helping to ensure our members, Trustees and Senior Management Team are well briefed and where appropriate support them in developing stakeholder relationships.

You will lead the External Affairs team's public affairs and will work autonomously with our members, partners and stakeholders to promote our specialty. Your enthusiasm for expanding our Society's reach and impact will be infectious amongst colleagues and our members.

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, will be passionate about building positive working relationships with a range of stakeholders, will be organised, adaptable and open to innovation and change.

Location

This role will involve travel across the UK. Our head office is based in Central London. We are currently working flexibly and remotely and you will be given the support and equipment needed to make this possible.

We can offer:

• A great place to work, we are Investors In People (Silver) accredited and committed to Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
• Performance related pay and incentive schemes that include colleague nominated awards
• Group pension scheme
• Flexible working approach - choose working patterns that suit you
• 25 days holiday, bank holidays
• A heap of benefits, such as BUPA health insurance, cycle to work schemes and options to buy/sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Regular staff social and wellbeing events, and team activities to build relationships and take a break from work
• Year round learning and development programmes

To apply: Please submit a detailed Cover Letter and CV by an email.

To be considered for this role, it is important that, in your Cover Letter, you provide relevant examples on how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification.

Please visit our website via the button below to download a full Job Description and Person Specification and to complete our Equality & Diversity Monitoring form

Closing date to submit applications: Sunday 12 December 2021 (midnight).

Interviews will be held virtually the week commencing Monday 3 January 2022.

We'll be inviting successful candidates to undertake a brief five minute public affairs mapping task to present in a way you see fit at interview.

For any questions about this role, please email.

Our Head of External Affairs, Lauren Bennie, is also available for an informal discussion, requests for a call-back can be made via an email.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation by complying with the Equality Act 2010.

We want a working environment free of all the above, where individual differences and the contributions of all staff are recognised and valued. To do this, we will proactively tackle discrimination and disadvantage and ensure that no individual or group is directly or indirectly discriminated against for any reason. We expect all BSR employees to champion and live our values through their work at every opportunity.