Main duties and responsibilities of the role:
• Work with Public Affairs Team to help further develop and implement the public affairs plan.
• Identify, develop and deliver proactive and reactive parliamentary activity to grow ARUK’s network of engaged, informed and supportive political stakeholders.
• Work across the policy and public affairs team to assist in developing tailored briefings and materials to further ARUK’s policy and public affairs ambitions.
• Keep abreast of the dementia research and political environments from national and international perspectives and use intelligence and insight to help inform the team’s work and direction.
• Provide analysis and insight on relevant legislation and policy guidance to help further and inform ARUK’s policy and public affairs work.
• To prepare parliamentary briefs, develop submissions for parliamentary questions and other opportunities presented through the parliamentary system.
• Lead on gathering information to measure our public affairs impact and report regularly, including across the organisation and up to Directors
• Work with the policy, public affairs and communications team to help deliver public campaigns and campaign messaging focused on ARUK policy objectives and help shape these messages for a political audience.
• Work with the communications team to help develop digital public affairs opportunities.
• Planning and coordinating parliamentary events and conferences focused around ARUK key policy and public affairs objectives.
• Represent ARUK at parliamentary and other events and conferences, including national party conferences.

What we are looking for:

• Educated to A Level or equivalent
• Excellent knowledge of the UK political system
• Experience of working in public affairs
• Excellent personal communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people at all levels face to face and on the phone
• Ability to write professionally, with an ability to adapt communications for different audiences
• Ability to work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workload
• Confident working with computers – good knowledge of Word, Excel and outlook

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