External Affairs Manager

Requirements of the role

We are looking for an External Affairs Manager with strong speechwriting skills to join the team in the Chief Executive’s Office at the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH). This is a new permanent role to support our wider remit.

Job Description:

You will manage and carry out activities that support RSH’s extensive programme of stakeholder engagement. This will include writing compelling speeches and speaking notes, collaborating with teams across RSH to develop effective briefing materials for stakeholder meetings and speaking engagements, supporting best practice in stakeholder engagement across RSH so that it delivers our objectives, and ensuring that feedback and insight is shared effectively across RSH at senior and working levels.

Responsibilities:

You will have experience of stakeholder management and external affairs, preferably within a central government or social housing context. This should include experience of stakeholder mapping and analysis, building external relationships, planning and delivering activities, and collaborating across teams. You will need to use your insight and evaluation skills to ensure that our stakeholder engagement is effective.

You will need to have excellent writing skills including experience of writing speeches, together with the ability to quickly understand and explain social housing policy and regulation issues. You will need a strong grasp of the social housing stakeholder landscape and an interest in politics.

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