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Policy and Briefings Officer

Job description

Harris Hill is excited to be working with the National Lottery Community Fund in its search for a new Policy and Briefings Officer.

Working closely with the Fund's Policy Managers, you'll be supporting with the development and delivery of the Fund's policy work. By nature of the Fund, which is the largest funder of charities in the UK, you'll be working on a wide variety of policy issues, including but not limited to youth development, education and health. As well as the expected responsibilities of research, analysis and stakeholder engagement, you'll also be drafting correspondence, speeches, presentations and briefings on behalf of the CEO, Board Members and other Senior Managers within the fund.

As a Policy and Briefings Officer, you'll be expected to demonstrate your experience of briefing colleagues and/or external audiences, ideally at a senior level, excellent content writing skills, and an ability to simultaneously deal with a wide and in-depth. Moreover, you'll display a genuine interest in current affairs and society more broadly, both in terms of the challenges it faces and how those challenges might be tackled.

This is a brilliant opportunity for a junior policy professional to get their teeth stuck into a broad and in-depth variety of policy areas and develop their career, working with one of the UK's most prominent and influential voices in the charity sector.

This is a full-time, permanent position paying 25,000 - 30,000 p.a. Application process is a CV and covering letter to harry.marven@harrishill.co.uk, working to a deadline of 21st July. Please note that only suitable candidates will be contacted.