Harris Hill are pleased to be working with an early years education charity to recruit a Policy and Public Affairs Lead. This is newly created position that will support the charity to develop and leverage key relationships with a range of senior external stakeholders to support regular engagement and ensure policy asks are included within policy, legislation and manifestos.
In recent years this charity have refocused their strategy to help children in the 0-7 age range from low-income families and vulnerable family backgrounds to become regular readers. The focus is now not only on the books themselves, but also on the support required to help children become regular readers.
As Policy and Public Affairs Lead you will support, manage and deliver the implementation plan for the policy and public affairs objectives. You will also support our policy and public affairs work with current and future children’s laureates and other high-profile ambassadors.
Key responsibilities of this role will include;
Building senior policy and political buy-in to the vital importance of early years shared reading for children aged 0-7
Increasing positive profile and visible support for the charity and for shared reading among early years, health, poverty reduction, arts and culture and children’s social care organisations – at senior stakeholder level
Supporting our partnerships team in their work to secure buy-in and support from local and regional delivery partners to enable continued delivery and growth in impact and reach
Building longer-term capacity and embed public affairs and policy activity within our existing staff team.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced policy and public affairs professional with an understanding of national, regional and local government. You will be able to demonstrate how you delivered a successful public affairs campaign or policy strategy in the past, and ideally have some experience of working on issues related to children, families and disadvantage.
This is a newly created position on an initial 18-month fixed term contract.
This position can be full-time or 4 days a week, and requires hybrid working from either their London or Leeds office.
For more information about this position and next steps please apply here now.
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