Key Responsibilities:

Innovating how we use our expert voice confidently as independent regulator shaping outcomes through influencing behaviour and growing confidence in in the Commission and the sector it regulates.
Ownership of the Commission’s narrative, ensuring it supports the Commission’s strategy, remains relevant and impactful, and is consistently delivered to external audiences. Ensuring high quality speechwriting support for the Chair and Chief Executive, through the effective leadership of other experts and sometimes playing a hands-on personal role.
Ensuring strong internal relationships are built at senior levels and engaging actively with regulatory and other colleagues to ensure collaborative approaches are agreed and reputational issues are fully considered, amplifying the Commission’s overall impact. This will involve considerable, complex negotiation and influencing skills, to effectively bridge divergent and conflicting views. Outlining, developing and coordinating engagement with key stakeholders, playing a substantive personal role, influencing at senior level
Acting as an influential and credible senior spokesperson for the Commission, with the media (both in print and on broadcast interviews), and with senior stakeholders (up to CEO level with charities and sector bodies, and to MP and MS, senior government official and sometimes Ministerial level)
Overseeing expertise within the team to develop external positions, targeting priority outlets and journalists, and proactively creating, shaping and placing media stories, articles and interviews which help support the achievement of our strategy and position the Commission as a fair, balanced and independent regulator. Ensuring media activity effectively supports Commission campaigns, events, digital services and policy reports, and that the press office anticipates and plans effectively for key events and cases and is robust and proactive
Ensuring a strategic approach to engaging with Parliament and the Senedd and advising the Board, CEO, Executive and senior staff across the Commission on all matters relating to Parliamentary affairs, ensuring we are listening and engaging, that our role is understood and our influence maximised.