From Westminster to Holyrood, the Senedd and Stormont, you'll build the relationships and run the campaigns that secure political, legislative and business change.

You'll lead our Parliamentary Affairs team and be one of our senior external voices. As a member of our Leadership Team, you'll also help shape how we deliver our Ocean Goals across the whole organisation. You'll work closely with our Head of UK Policy & Advocacy, so our policy positions and influencing work pull in the same direction.

What you'll do

- Shape our four-nation external affairs strategy with the Director of Conservation & Policy, set clear measures of success and track impact.
- Decide where, when and how we influence: parliamentary work, coalitions, public campaigns or legal routes.
- Run our engagement with all four parliaments and governments, including campaigns for legislative change.
- Be our lead with business leaders on agreed priorities and speak for us in the media and in public.
- Work with legal advisers on challenges and other legal routes where they're the right approach, managing the risks.
- Line manage and develop a remote Parliamentary Affairs team and manage the external affairs budget.
- Contribute to our strategic direction and champion joined up working across teams.

About You

We're looking for an experienced leader who can turn ambition into change. You'll be able to show us that you:

- have led senior political or parliamentary engagement that achieved a clear policy or legislative outcome.
- understand how devolution shapes environmental or marine policy across the four nations and adapt your influencing to match – however you gained that understanding.
- have designed, led and evaluated advocacy campaigns with clear objectives and measures of success.
- have built trusted relationships with parliamentarians, senior officials or business leaders that changed a position or practice.
- use sound political judgement to spot opportunities and risks and pick the right tactic.
- explain complex policy in plain English and represent an organisation confidently with the media.
- have led and developed a team, including remote colleagues, and managed a budget.
- can identify and manage legal, financial and reputational risk in high-profile work.