Director of Policy and External Affairs

Civil engineers design, create and connect the world by building railways, roads, schools, hospitals, water and power supplies. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is a 97,000-strong global membership organisation with more than 200 years of history. The ICE is a centre of engineering excellence, and our network of experts offers trusted, impartial advice to politicians and decision makers on how to build and adapt infrastructure to create a more sustainable world.

We share learning and experience through original research, engaging events, professional development, partnerships, and mentoring. We qualify engineers working in infrastructure to maintain their competence throughout their careers to create safer infrastructure for society.

Society is facing unprecedented challenges from climate change to demographic shift. The infrastructure sector has a critical role to play in addressing these challenges and in creating a better future, using the UN Sustainable Development Goals as guiding principles. By bringing together the best and brightest engineering minds we find innovative solutions to global critical challenges.

The opportunity :

The Director of Policy and External Affairs leads a high performing team to engage with politicians and decision makers to inform better strategic decisions on infrastructure. ICE policy frameworks centre on three areas : decarbonisation; climate resilience; and productivity. This is done for public benefit to ensure the public gets the infrastructure needed to live sustainable lives.

Accountabilities include :

• As a member of the Director General Board, support the development of the ICE strategy and plan and the leadership of the ICE Group.
• Lead and develop ICE’s political and policy work to ensure the ICE’s policy has impact with senior policy, decision makers and opinion formers.
• Prioritise and oversee ICE’s engagement with parliamentarians, senior officials and other opinion formers.
• Lead the development and management of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure and other relevant groups to ensure the group is positioned as the leading source of insight on economic infrastructure in the UK Parliament.
• Develop ICE’s global profile, working with international bodies and governments to enable infrastructure best practice to be shared globally and fostering knowledge exchange and continuous improvement.
• Serve as spokesperson for ICE’s policy positions to external audiences to ensure the accurate and effective conveying of ICE’s policy positions and insight.

Requirements include :

A rare opportunity to join the leadership of a global organisation, act as its spokesperson on important policy issues and be part of the answer to some of the world’s biggest challenges and opportunities.

How to apply :