From 2025, JRF is embarking on an exciting new strategy aimed at securing bold, stretching policy goals across 6 key areas: housing, energy/climate, social security, communities & place, work and families & care.

Our Senior Campaigns and Public Affairs Managers play 3 important roles. Firstly, they collaborate closely with our policy and analytical teams to ensure that our major policy ideas are designed to attract the highest possible levels of public and political support.

Second, they are responsible for identifying the best fit influencing strategies and tactics for securing tangible progress towards these policy objectives & developing powerful narratives to build support from key stakeholders.

Thirdly, they are responsible for securing the resources the strategies need, mobilising colleagues, partner organisations & external contractors to put them into effect, growing a powerful network of influential external supporters and ensuring that plans respond effectively to the ever-evolving external context.

As our Senior Campaigns & Public Affairs Manager, we’d like you to have an in-depth understanding of the ways in which UK public policies are formed and reformed, of the challenges associated with delivering policy in the real world and of how civil society organisations like JRF can successfully influence policy change.

You will have an understanding of the structural nature of poverty and how policy may alleviate structural harms and substantial experience of working at progressively senior levels at the intersection of policy development, politics and strategic communications/ campaigns.

You’ll have substantial experience of working in multidisciplinary teams using a range of insider & outsider tactics and compelling examples of developing and implementing influencing strategies that have demonstrably affected the climate of opinion around an issue and ideally, achieved concrete change.

With a proven track record of successfully building relationships with decision makers & influencing their thinking, you’ll have clear examples of writing effectively for a wide range of audiences and of commissioning, understanding and using public attitudinal insights to inform your influencing strategies and/or narrative development.