Responsibilities:

• Championing key policy messages from related road safety initiatives.
• Leading PACTS’ engagement with UK Parliamentarians alongside the Executive Director.
• Monitoring government and parliamentary activity on road safety, identifying opportunities for policy advancement.
• Take a lead role in the overall dissemination and advocacy of research outputs.
• Developing campaign briefings, materials, and consultation responses.
• Involvement in PACTS Road Safety Working Parties – a source of technical expertise;
• Work in collaboration with other PACTS core staff, particularly the Deputy Executive Director and the Communications Officer;
• Writing policy statements for PACTS on key transport safety matters;
• Assistance with PACTS events and other related tasks. (PACTS is a small organisation and staff roles and responsibilities are constantly evolving).
• Supporting the APPG for Transport Safety and expanding its membership.
• Potential to undertake research and writing reports

The Advocacy Officer will report to the PACTS Executive Director.

Qualifications

• A degree in government, communications or a transport-related discipline;

Essential capabilities

• Knowledge of transport, health, environment, economics, social policy, politics or a related discipline;
• Proven communication and campaign skills;
• Excellent writing skills, particularly in an applied research situation;
• An ability to communicate specialist technical knowledge to a non-specialist audience;
• An ability to understand statistics and to clearly present key findings;
• An ability to source and analyse information from government, academia, stakeholders, PACTS contacts and others;
• IT skills – mainly MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT and Outlook);
• Good organisational skills and working to deadlines;
• An ability to work unsupervised and to use initiative;
• Enthusiasm and the ability to take a key role in an organisation with a small staff;
• A willingness to be flexible in roles and responsibilities.

Desirable

• A knowledge of road safety;
• A knowledge of the operations of the UK Parliament, government or local government;
• Experience of working with the UK Parliament or any Government Department;
• Social media skills, particularly LinkedIn and WordPress (website editor);
• Design and graphics skills.
• Research skills and an ability to organize and analyse data