The UK’s leading property trade body is looking for a talented and enthusiastic Policy Officer to join its small, but hugely effective team, focusing particularly on planning and development.

Acting on behalf of the biggest property companies, institutional investors, fund managers, investment banks and the professional firms that support them, the British Property Federation works with the government to ensure the industry’s importance to the economy is understood, and its voice is heard.

We have decided to recruit a Planning and Development Policy Officer to help us engage with the government on essential policy issues. The successful candidate will be part of the interface between our members and the government; ensuring our members understand government policy and requirements, and that the government is aware, and takes account, of the needs of our industry and its ability to help deliver the government’s policies. You will also help communicate the benefits of the property industry to a wider range of external audiences.

You will support the BPF’s real estate policy team in providing a timely, credible and effective lobbying service for BPF members, particularly in the planning, development and industrial property areas. This will entail the post holder:

1. monitoring and researching policy issues;
2. interacting professionally with the BPF’s members to elicit their opinions;
3. assisting in the development and delivery of lobbying campaigns;
4. communicating members’ interests to key opinion formers, and by doing so encouraging Government to provide a conducive political and regulatory environment.

To be considered for the role, you will be a graduate and will probably have an interest in one or more areas of politics, public policy, heritage and development. Ideally you will have experience of working with public policy and will have carried out research, analysed information and written reports on what you’ve discovered. To succeed in the role, you will need to have excellent analytical and communication skills (written and verbal), attention to detail and the confidence to advise colleagues, industry leaders and government officials on your specialist areas.