Are you interested in joining the UK’s leading membership body for property agents to help interpret key policy positions and legislative developments as well as engage with stakeholders and partners, lobby for change and represent members’ views?

Propertymark is the leading membership body for property agents with nearly 18,000 members across the UK who display the Propertymark Protected logo. .

Job purpose

We are looking for a proactive and creative policy and public affairs professional to support lobbying activity and deliver a diverse range of high-quality written communications.

This is an important role within Propertymark and the wider Policy and Campaigns Team.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Working with the Policy and Campaigns Team, Press Team and Marketing Communications Team to articulate policy positions to influence key stakeholders.
• Preparing persuasive and reasoned responses to government consultations and calls for evidence across all property sectors and aligned matters.
• Assisting with lobbying governments and building relationships with MPs, Peers, MSs, MSPs, MLAs and other relevant parties on issues affecting the property industry.
• Pivotal to the role is being able to present elements of draft Bills, Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, and Regulations in forms that can be easily understood by practitioners and Propertymark members, staff and the wider sector.
• Building and maintaining an awareness of the sector landscape and being highly organised to manage deadlines for written responses to a variety of consultations and calls for evidence.
• Creating fact sheets, guides and FAQs to support member compliance with legislation.
• Creating persuasive and engaging written content to support campaign messaging and wider external affairs. Writing lines to support the creation of articles for use across Propertymark’s channels.
• The Policy and Campaigns Officer will be the point of contact for a wide range of policy issues, providing some support to Propertymark staff and members with responses to technical queries.
• Any other responsibilities or tasks as reasonably requested by the business.