An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Public Affairs and Campaigns team as Government and Stakeholder Relations Manager at the Association of Colleges.

What will you do?

The Government and Stakeholder Relations Manager will work to strengthen our engagement across Whitehall - ultimately ensuring that the potential of colleges to transform lives is understood by decision-makers and influencers and reflected in policy-making, and leading thinking to build a system that can fully deliver on this. This will involve a particular focus on ensuring that thinking about colleges is effectively embedded into thinking across all of the Labour government’s five missions, and ensuring that the proposals to develop Skills England live up to their potential to ultimately drive a more cohesive and impactful post 16 education and skills system.

Sitting within AoC’s Public Affairs and Campaigns team, you’ll report into the Director of Public Affairs and Campaigns, working closely with colleagues across the AoC, with sector partners and our member colleges. You will work proactively to forge strong relationships with people across Whitehall, with political parties and with other key stakeholders, such as trade bodies, employers, trade unions, student representatives, and draw on our policy expertise, research and evidence-base.

This role will be varied – and a week might see you meeting with stakeholders to develop coordinated engagement activities; using AoC reports to produce targeted briefings for civil servants and ministers which demonstrate the role colleges can play across government priority areas; securing meetings with ministers and senior officials for our CEO and other senior staff; working with our media team to support coverage discussing the wider role colleges play outside of education and training; and working to identify and develop case studies from member colleges which support your wider work.

For more information on the role and to apply, please follow this link: https://www.education-recruiter.com/job/299630/government-and-stakeholder-relations-manager-at-association-of-colleges-aoc