Policy and Engagement Manager
Are you passionate about tackling the greatest threats working donkeys face locally and around the world, from the donkey skin trade to challenges working animals face in disasters?
We have an excellent opportunity for a creative and detail-oriented individual with excellent communication and collaborative skills to join the collaborative global department focused on influencing change, using campaigning and public affairs tactics.
Position: Policy and Engagement Manager
Location: Devon – an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty/hybrid working (applications for fully remote/home working and flexible working patterns welcomed)
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week, 08.30-16.30, Monday-Friday
Salary: £46,402 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 13 April 2025. Initial interviews will be held via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 6 May 2025. Applicants successful at this stage will progress to final interviews, via Microsoft Teams, on Wednesday 15th May 2025.
About the Role
As Policy and Engagement Manager, you will work in partnership with department leadership to manage the positioning and evidence base for ambitious global influencing strategy and plans, and will share the load on external representation, from local to UN level. This vital role will help advance credible connections with the sustainable development, wildlife crime, One Health and One Welfare agendas, where this can leverage outcomes and exciting point in our strategy.
Principal duties include:
• Developing UK, EU and global political engagement for organisation including developing an internal working network.
• Strategically supporting designated cross-organisation influencing campaigns and projects.
• Supporting the international programme partnership influencing goals, developing toolkits and supporting capacity to increase our reach.
• Managing a small team – developing its vision and objectives, maintaining and empowering an inclusive work environment, setting clear objectives to meet organisational goals.
• Developing and maintaining a multi-organisation alliance that engages stakeholders from multiple disciplines, including academic and governmental, for the benefit of the charity causes and managing the coordination of this work.
• Undertaking research and writing policy position papers, reports, briefs, factsheets, external blogs/publications and policy responses.
• Ensuring that charity has a strong voice in the policy making process at national level through the formulation of high quality, well informed policy positions and outputs on issues of relevance to stakeholders.
Due to the seniority and nature of the role, flexibility will be required for working outside of core hours, and for occasional UK and international travel.
About You
You will need to bring with you the following skills and experience:
• Experience of working in a technical (animal welfare or health) global influencing role, with a focus on driving evidence based global positions.
• Experience in the development and delivery of policy positions, research and stakeholder mapping.
• Experience of developing policy or collaborative / coalition based initiatives from evidence-based research, coupled with the ability to communicate the findings to a range of audiences.
• Good knowledge of the major stakeholders the charity must work and engage with, including UK Government, UN, AU-IBAR, WOAH, the World Bank and The EU.
• Strong written communication skills and research capabilities, and an ability to translate complex information into easy to understand messages.
• Extensive report writing experience, having written or led high level global reports and briefings and evaluating evidence of their impact.
• Excellent organisation skills, able to multi-task and demonstrate working with a number conflicting demands to meet multiple deadlines.
What you get in return…
• Competitive pension.
• Life assurance.
• 31 days holiday (including Bank holidays), rising to 34 with each full year of service.
• Wellbeing team.
• Recorded Pilates classes.
• Long service awards.
• Healthshield plan
• Free parking.
• Subsidised restaurant and shop.
About the Organisation
The sanctuary is one of the UK’s largest international animal welfare charities, currently supporting projects in over 35 countries worldwide, working for a world where donkeys and mules live free from suffering and their contribution to humanity is fully valued.
The Charity is a Disability Confident Employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (children and adults) and expects all staff and volunteers to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment processes, including an application for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where required for the post.
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PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation
