Reference: 98755
Date Added: 6 March 2026
Closing Date: 29 March 2026
Job Title: Policy and Public Affairs Manager
Working For: Good Things Foundation
Location: London
Salary: £42,000 - £44,000, depending on experience, plus excellent benefits
Length of Contract: Permanent
Job Details
Good Things Foundation is the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity, working to ensure that everyone can participate in our digital society.
Our new strategy grounds us in the ecosystem of digital inclusion systems change, and this role is significant to delivering it. The role holder will manage the organisation’s advocacy, policy, and public affairs work - driving systems change and positioning Good Things Foundation as a key component in the digital inclusion landscape.
Working with a multi-disciplinary team, this role is central to influencing senior leaders and Parliamentarians to ensure the UK Government delivers on their digital inclusion agenda; and building buy-in for Good Things’ evolved strategy. This includes being a representative in and around Westminster, and with other senior stakeholders we wish to influence, as well as with the media.
This role holds pivotal responsibility to design and deliver Good Things’ political advocacy and is critical to driving impact and working to raise the voice of people experiencing digital exclusion.
See full role information and download the job description on our website here: https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/about/working-at-good-things/vacancy-policy-public-affairs-manager.html
Location: London. We expect you will be spending approximately 2 days a week in London at face to face meetings, with other days spent at a co-working space or at home as suits you. We ask everyone to travel to Sheffield (where many of our workforce are based) once a month to join our team meetings - an essential part of our culture. Occasional national travel will be required.
Please note, we are not currently in a position to offer remote working from abroad or provide sponsorship at this time. We will only be able to consider applications from candidates based in the UK who already have the right to work full time hours.
Closing Date: 29 March 2026
Interview/Start Dates
First round virtual interviews expected Thursday 2nd April
Second round Face to Face interviews expected Monday 13th April
Application Details
Email your application to recruitment@goodthingsfoundation.org. Attach your CV and a supporting statement, no more than two sides, that sets out:
- Tell us why you want to be our Policy and Public Affairs Manager?
- How will your previous skills and experience drive systems change and directly contribute to our mission?
- Explain the main challenges facing people experiencing social / digital exclusion and how Good Things can help overcome those challenges in the next three years
Please read our note to candidates on the use of AI in applications
Website: https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/