RCN UK HQ, 35 Hours per week, Permanent contract

As the International Policy Manager, you'll put your passion for influencing UK, European and international nursing and health policy, and creative approach to designing an evidence-based case for change, to work with members and stakeholders to deliver effective strategies for influencing.

We'll look to you to ensure staff have clear work-plans, aligned to key strategic priorities, and the pragmastism to design activity to achieve outcome-based objectives and deliver high quality outputs within deadlines. You'll be responsible for developing and drafting clear, consistent high-quality evidence-based policy narratives to influence policy makers, with robust and credible solutions for positive change. It's a great way to build your knowledge of our work and develop your potential.

Every day will be filled with possibilities as you find new ways to achieve positive policy change with and on behalf of our members.

As our International Policy Manager, you will design and deliver high quality, evidence based policy influencing programmes to achieve positive change. You will also build and sustain relationships with European and international alliances, ensuring that these are utilised effectively to achieve organisational priorities. You will be pragmatic in managing reactive and planned activity to adapt to changing context, and in problem solving to overcome obstacles or barriers.

To join us you'll need to be able to analyse the UK and international external political and policy landscape to identify specific levers for change; manage activity within a high performing team responsible for delivering effective policy influencing and, ideally, a background in successfully influencing for change working across geographical, organisational and disciplinary boundaries.

Whatever your background, you'll be passionate, pragmatic, and show a real member focus in all you do.

The ability to build and sustain strong professional relationships with Government and other officials, as well as European and international alliances, and encourage close collaboration between RCN departments is at the heart of this management role.