Political Officer

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a policy and public affairs professional to join UAL’s growing Policy and Advocacy Team and play a key role using your political knowledge to support our 10-year strategy to bring creativity to the world.

As Political Officer, you will join UAL’s Social Purpose Lab, where the Policy and Advocacy Team is based. We believe policy is a powerful vehicle for change and want to shape the external policy landscape to give our students the education they need to flourish in a changing world, and to use our community’s immense expertise and creativity to influence decision-making in public policy.

As the Policy and Advocacy Team continues to grow and establish itself across UAL and begins to explore new policy areas, this is an exciting time to join the team.

You will support the delivery of the team’s public affairs strategy. This will involve monitoring key political developments and identifying influencing opportunities, supporting colleagues with stakeholder engagement, managing UAL’s stakeholder database, coordinating policy newsletters, developing policy notes, and supporting with policy events.

About you

You’ll have experience of working in policy, public affairs or campaigns, and a close interest in higher education and the creative economy. A good understanding of the UK political system, parliamentary procedures and key parliamentary events is essential.

You’ll have great communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex information succinctly, and experience of drafting a wide range of documents for internal and external audiences, including briefings.

Experience of engaging with external networks, setting up meetings with senior stakeholders, and stakeholder database management is equally important.

What we offer

To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

• 34 days of annual leave and 2 days off to volunteer plus bank holidays
• Flexible and Dynamic working options available from the first day
• Discounted Medical Insurance including Digital GP service, therapies, in-patient and day-case treatment
• Free counselling and advice via our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Sector-leading Equal Parental Leave policy (6 months full pay for both parents)
• Defined-benefit LGPS pension scheme
• In-house training and development including apprenticeships and free places on creative courses
• Interest free loans on travel and tech, discounts on gym memberships, nursery fees, eye care and much more
• Various opportunities to attend student shows and exhibitions

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

Closing date: 20^th January 2025, 23:55.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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