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About the Role

The Head of Policy & Influencing shapes and delivers the Foundation’s policy and influencing strategy within the Impact on Urban Health directorate. This role leads parliamentary and government engagement strategies, provides strategic oversight of influencing work, and drives a unified urban health influencing strategy. The position builds and maintains stakeholder relationships, acts as a spokesperson, supports senior leadership, oversees budgets, and manages a team, ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded in all influencing activities.

Responsibilities

Develop and deliver parliamentary and government engagement strategies across all issue areas.
Provide strategic oversight of programmatic influencing strategies, ensuring a coherent approach across all programmes.
Lead the cross-programme urban health influencing strategy.
Provide high-level strategic advice on programmatic influencing strategies and influencing partnerships.
Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships to create partnership opportunities and act as a spokesperson.
Support senior leadership with stakeholder engagement.
Oversee budgets for programmatic policy and influencing work.
Deputise for the Director of Policy, Influencing & Communications as required.
Line manage Policy & Influencing Managers and the Policy & Convening Manager.
Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into all policy and influencing activity and support cross-organisational DEI work.

Requirements

Significant experience in public affairs and policy within a UK setting, with demonstrable impact on policy making in Westminster Parliament and/or devolved administrations.
Experience leading teams to deliver impactful influencing strategies.
Experience working across a broad policy brief and quickly developing expertise in different policy areas.
Experience developing and managing budgets.
In-depth understanding of the UK political environment and Government operations.
Expertise in public policy, ideally in health equity or social justice issues.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal and networking skills at all levels.
Ability to thrive in an environment with a clear and ambitious mission, a matrix structure, and unconventional ways of working.

Location

London
Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior level

Salary/Compensations

£72,000 / year

Benefits

Contributory pension
Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance
Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay without length of service requirements
Optional free yearly health check-ups
Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities
Agile working and flexible hours
Supportive IT kit
Shower facilities and bike lock area
Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
Subsidies for glasses
Employee Assistance Programme

About the Company

The Foundation's Impact on Urban Health directorate focuses on policy, influencing, and change.