The Royal College of Physicians is recruiting a Public Affairs Manager.

Purpose and scope

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Royal College of Physicians at a crucial time. The RCP is the oldest medical royal college representing hospital doctors. Our members were at the forefront of supporting patients during the pandemic and are now working to tackle the backlog of care.

You will lead and manage our public affairs work, proactively identifying opportunities to ensure the organisation is influencing the health agenda effectively on a range of topics including the NHS workforce, health inequality, sustainability and climate change and clinical research.

You will have demonstrable experience of developing and delivering successful influencing strategies, using a range of public affairs and campaigns tactics to achieve policy change. You will be as comfortable speaking to parliamentarians and other stakeholders as you are writing consultation submissions and briefings. You will be able to engage with detail, while appreciating the bigger picture and our place in it.

You will also lead and manage the organisation’s stakeholder engagement. You will work closely with the president and senior officers to engage with external stakeholders within UK Government, Parliament and the wider health and care sector. Working with colleagues across the directorate, you will monitor developments in the external political and policy landscape and make recommendations for how to evolve and progress our campaign positioning and messaging in response.

The policy and campaigns team – and the wider communications, policy and research directorate - is a fast paced, collaborative and innovative environment. We value the opinions and ideas of every member of the team and actively seek their contributions. You will contribute to policy and media work, help us set our objectives and improve the ways we work.