RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage a small team of policy advisers to ensure that high quality policy outputs are produced in a timely fashion
• Develop and foster effective relationships with other professional, industry, political and third sector bodies, and use these relationships to support the work of the policy team and ACE Group generally
• Work closely with senior business leaders in the infrastructure and environment sectors.
• Managing multiple proactive tasks at once and personally delivering some policy projects.
• Support the delivery of ACE’s public affairs agenda, engaging with political and civil service stakeholders and representing ACE Group at external fora.
• Contribute and speak at ACE Group meetings and events, internally and externally
• Work closely with the ACE Communication team to contribute to the communications output of ACE & EIC
• Work with Director of Policy to develop standards and procedures to ensure policy team deliver high quality output and exceed members’ expectations
• Deputise for Director of Policy as required

PERSON SPECIFICATION
• A first or post graduate degree
• Experience of working in an policy role in a policy-focused organization
• Experience of managing policy specialists (desirable)
• Good understanding of the current policy landscape in infrastructure, commercial and environmental policy and the ability to interpret how this impact members’ business environment
• Ability to develop and deliver influential content and presentations
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills, builds relationships across all levels of an organization and with a range of stakeholders
• Previous experience of influencing others through data and explanations
• Exceptional communication skills, including good written English
• Ability to produce interesting and reader friendly documentation
• Proactivity manages own workload and meets deadlines
• Continually seeks to maintain own professional knowledge through a willingness to learn and develop