At Allergy UK, we are passionate about raising awareness, driving policy change, and providing trusted advice to millions. Every campaign we run and every story we share helps make allergy visible as a serious health issue.

As Policy and Influencing Volunteer, you’ll support the Policy team in shaping and amplifying our voice, ensuring allergies are firmly on the agenda. You will be at the heart of our ongoing advocacy and influencing campaigns, working at the highest levels to generate change.

Role opportunities will include:

• Contributing to our influencing activities across the UK
• Monitoring and horizon-scanning the policy environment
• Providing regular updates for relevant stakeholders
• Supporting engagement with political stakeholders, government departments, and external agencies
• Jointly managing our database of parliamentary contacts, interests & actions relating to our advocacy priorities
• Supporting our participation at external meetings, such as All-Party Parliamentary Groups, working to organise and deliver impactful events
• Assisting with implementing the charity’s advocacy strategy

Beneficial skills & experience:

• A strong understanding of local, regional, and national government policy-making processes, in England and in the devolved assemblies
• Experience managing complex research projects
• Experience writing briefings, reports, and other key advocacy output
• A high level of personal literacy
• Experience working independently and contributing to activites within mutually agreed timeframes

The ideal candidate will:

• Have a passionate commitment to delivering our vision, mission, and values
• Be decisive and determined
• Be able to think on their feet and adapt quickly when needed
• Be able to manage a large and varied workload, developing priories to meet competing deadlines
• Be empathetic and sensitive
• Be committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion

Allergy UK is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from individuals with lived experience of allergic disease and those from underrepresented communities.

This is a Volunteer opportunity. Volunteers are free to decide the amount of time they can offer and may end their involvement at any time. Reasonable expenses may be reimbursed.