Senior External Affairs Manager

Do you have previous experience of working in an external affairs or partnerships team, events and visits team, press office, private office, communications team or similar? If so, we’ve got the perfect job for you!

About the Team

The Ministerial and Communications Group sits at the heart of the Treasury. If you are interested in the inner workings of the Government, meeting Ministers, Senior Officials and liaising with the Press then this could be the place for you! We are a friendly and inclusive Group working on some of the most exciting issues of the day, bringing together work from across the rest of the department and engaging closely with partners across Whitehall and beyond.

We provide support to Ministers, through Ministerial offices. We act as Treasury's external face, through the Press Office and Communications team. We are responsible for managing the department, through our support for the Permanent Secretary, the Second Permanent Secretaries, the Treasury Board, and the Executive Management Board (EMB), and our ownership of Treasury governance structures. The Group is led by the Permanent Secretary.

The Communications Team is responsible for all communications conducted by HM Treasury and its Ministers. We work closely with Ministers, special advisers and policy teams to help inform, promote and defend HMT policies and the government's economic plan through traditional and new media channels. As a team we are hard-working, supportive and fun. We work highly collaboratively across the different aspects of communications (press, digital, external affairs, internal, strategy & events). The successful applicant will need to be willing to work flexibly across priorities.

About the Job

In this role, you will :

• Develop strong working relationships with Treasury policy and communications colleagues, as well as with other government departments, to ensure a joined-up approach on external engagement plans for key announcements.
• Help develop strategic external engagement plans ahead of each policy announcement or fiscal event. This will involve engaging with external partners in advance of policy announcements and working with them to line up support for announcements.
• Creatively use advocates to build news hooks and to bring to life how government support is benefitting businesses and partners.
• Develop strong two-way working relationships with key external partners to ensure they are appropriately informed around announcements and fiscal events, that Treasury Communications is aware of upcoming business announcements, and to provide insight into business sentiment.
• Lead on implementing and maintaining a master contact database of business partners, tracking engagement, monitoring sentiment and identifying which Treasury schemes they are taking up.
• Demonstrate outstanding judgement and acute political awareness, working with policy and press colleagues to identify and handle presentational risks and opportunities associated with external engagement.

About You

The post-holder will be organised, react quickly and calmly to changing circumstances, have strong communication skills and be able to think creatively to reach solutions.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrerecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk.

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