About the role

• Location: Home-based, with regular travel to London and occasional UK travel

We are looking for a Policy and Public Affairs Officer to join the team to work on an exciting new three-year project funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. As part of this project, you will work closely alongside our frontline partner Money Advice Plus to help take our influencing work to the next level in our mission to stop economic abuse forever.

You will help to develop viable, evidence-based policy solutions and deliver influencing plans to engage stakeholders from across parliament, the civil service, industry and charities to address economic abuse.

Your focus will be on developing policy and influencing government on coerced debt – one of the most insidious yet devastating forms of economic abuse – to drive forward public and private sector responses.

You would be joining us at a significant moment as we launch our ambitious new three-year strategy. As part of this, we will build on our influencing work by ensuring victim-survivors’ voices are heard by the new Government to deliver lasting change.

About you

You will have experience in policy development, including undertaking research and analysing evidence to form credible evidence-based solutions and producing policy outputs like reports, consultation responses or briefings.

You will have strong public affairs skills, including excellent knowledge of parliamentary processes, sound political judgement, and proven ability to build support among a variety of stakeholders.

Your communication skills will be outstanding, with the ability to land complex messages clearly, concisely, and persuasively for different audiences both verbally and in writing.
You will have strong organisational skills and experience in organising events, like webinars or parliamentary roundtables. Your effective management of projects will use interpersonal and organisational skills to get the best out of others, while navigating competing priorities with agility.

About SEA

Surviving Economic Abuse (SEA) is the only UK charity dedicated to raising awareness of economic abuse and transforming responses to it. Our vision is a world in which all women and girls are economically equal and live their lives free from abuse and exploitation.