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About the Role
The Senior Policy Officer will play an important role at a critical moment for the organisation, helping the Policy team to plan and deliver a new set of priorities for 2026/27. Key priorities include improving health outcomes, mobilising the UK health research system, and making the UK a leading place for medical sciences careers.
Responsibilities
- Scoping, planning, and delivering multiple policy projects in parallel to achieve organizational objectives.
- Developing knowledge of complex policy topics at pace and identifying opportunities for impact.
- Collating evidence from multiple sources.
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with key internal and external contacts, including senior, high-profile individuals.
- Harnessing the benefits of working in a diverse, rapidly growing, and changing organization.
- Running impactful policy events, meetings, and engagement activities.
- Commitment to inclusive, accessible, and evidence-based policy work.
Requirements
- Good understanding of the UK health research and medical sciences policy landscape, and/or other related areas.
- Experience in scoping, planning and delivering multiple policy projects in parallel, to achieve organisational objectives.
- Ability to develop knowledge of complex policy topics at pace, and identify opportunities for impact within these topics.
- Strong analytical skills and experience of collating evidence from multiple sources.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external contacts, including senior, high-profile individuals.
- Ability to harness the benefits of working in a diverse organisation that is rapidly growing and changing, including across different departments and sub-teams.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to run impactful policy events, meetings, and engagement activities.
- Commitment to inclusive, accessible and evidence‑based policy work.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good IT, literacy and numeracy skills.
- Line management experience (desirable).
- Ability to travel around the UK (desirable).
Skills
- Analytical skills
- Written communication skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail
- IT skills
- Literacy skills
- Numeracy skills
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Fixed-term contract
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £44,340
Benefits
- Competitive Rewards
- Generous pension scheme with flexible contributions (8%-13% employer contribution, 3%-8% employee contribution)
- Life assurance at three times salary
- Hybrid and agile working
- 26 days annual leave, plus Christmas closure days and bank holidays
- Buying and selling leave
- Family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Complimentary subscriptions to Headspace and Classpass
- Support through tailored learning and development
- Enhanced benefits after probation period
About the Company
- The Academy’s Policy Team is a key member of the organisation.