Please see: https://www.whitonmaynard.com/senior-policy-officer.html

Full time, 3-year FTC

Remote or hybrid in the Bristol office

Organisation:

Medical research charity

Role:

The Senor Policy Officer is a newly created post and will play a key role in using health insights to shape the charity’s policy positions and make a meaningful difference to the lives of people affected by disease. This position involves a combination of research, analysis, strategic foresight and policy development to enable evidence-based decision making.

The role is also very close to people and families. It is critical that health insights and policy work is shaped by the direct experience of people affected. The role will play an important part in maintaining the charity’s reputation as an evidence-led organisation in the UK and around the world.

If you are looking for a policy role that has global reach and capacity to make a major difference in defeating a global disease, this could be the new challenge you have been waiting for.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the external policy context for the disease in the UK and internationally providing ongoing comprehensive policy analysis to identify the drivers, trends and priorities for the charity’s policy engagement
• Support the Head of Health Insights & Policy to develop and deliver an internal platform to provide strategic foresight and horizon scanning ensuring regular internal updates in outputs
• Use outcomes and insights from the organisation’s research and analysis to review and update policy positions on priority topics relevant to strategy, ensuring policy positions are shared with and understood by colleagues across the charity
• Draft policy briefing and position papers and reports on priority topics for internal and external audiences.

Candidate:

• Experience in health policy in the UK and internationally
• Experience of working in the international development or global health sector, including in low income countries
• Experience of undertaking policy research, having written reports and briefs and evaluated evidence of their impact
• Ability to quickly build strong internal and external relationships with a wide range of actors
• Ability to translate complex arguments into accessible language for varied target audiences in a clear and engaging style.