Policy Research and Insights Manager
Join us in the dynamic role of Policy Research & Insights Manager, where you'll play a pivotal part in shaping and executing our strategic initiatives. At the heart of our mission lies the integration of Public Affairs, Business, and Foundation research to drive both internal intelligence and external awareness.
Your primary responsibility will be curating and synthesizing crucial themes and evidence to support impactful public affairs and stakeholder engagement endeavours. This role will see you advocating for skills education and engaging diverse stakeholders to underscore the benefits and impacts of workforce development.
You will be working on a hybrid basis with a mix of home and office. We offer flexible working but request presence in our City & Guilds London office as required for this role.
This appointment will be made on merit.
We believe that diversity and inclusion strengthen and enriches us, and that it is the responsibility of everyone at the City & Guilds Group to drive this value. As ethnic minority groups and disabled people are currently under-represented within the Group, we particularly encourage and welcome applications from these communities.
About the role
Success in this role will be gauged by your ability to deliver engaging Public Affairs activities, enhance media presence on policy matters, and evaluate audience engagement. You'll support our Public Affairs function by providing critical policy research, evaluation, and impact evidence, thereby advancing our charitable objectives, and establishing us as leaders in the field of skills development.
You will lead on gathering and maintaining a log of Policy and Sector research outputs and recommendations, commercial market/product insights internally and key data metrics, such as Policy measures, Product/Learner/Customer performance, sector market trends, National Employment statistics, labour market analysis and productivity measures. Your role will help to ensure these inputs inform and support Public Affairs and strategic stakeholder engagement plans. You will also monitor external research and insights intelligence to contrast, compare and aggregate with our internal work to help steer future research activity and augment our own internal knowledge and messaging.
Working closely with internal teams to develop a network of external Policy & Public Affairs stakeholders to help inform and develop City & Guilds Intelligence around skills development investment and social and economic impact.
Ultimately, you will contribute to our ability to scale our impact and profile as the ‘go to’ brand and voice for skills.
About you
Our successful candidate will have experience of research, impact and insights work in a policy influencing function.
You will have knowledge of the working of government and parliamentary processes and protocols, an understanding of policy developments relating to skills in the UK and internationally.
As Policy Research & Insights Manager, you will have the ability to influence and build relationships across a diverse range of external senior stakeholders and sectors and support high profile public facing policy campaigns with data and insights.
You should have excellent communication skills including the ability to contribute to impactful briefings for internal and external stakeholders.
You will have a creative flair in finding new ways to bring solutions to long term societal issues.
Whilst not mandatory, it would be beneficial if you have knowledge or experience of working in an education and training related area.
Our Story And Mission
Our vision is for a world in which everyone has the skills and opportunities to succeed. We support almost five million people each year to develop skills that help them into a job, develop on that job and to prepare for their next job. As a charity, we’re proud that everything we do is focused on achieving this purpose.
Through our assessment and credentialing, corporate learning and technical training offers, we partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.
At the heart of our business sits the City & Guilds Foundation which amplifies our purpose by helping to remove barriers to getting into a job, celebrating best practice on the job, and advocating for jobs of the future.
We were founded in 1878 by the City of London and the trade guilds of the time, to help people, organisations and economies to develop their skills for growth.
Our rich experience means we’re uniquely positioned to understand the future of work and learning. And we continually evolve to develop and deliver skills for the workplace of the future. Today, as well as qualifications and assessment, we offer digital credentialing, eLearning technologies, executive leadership development, technical training, and consultancy.
Our success is driven by the people we work with. We pride ourselves on our ability to offer an equal opportunity to all our staff and we value diversity within our inclusive culture. We recognise that a diverse workforce is the only way we will achieve our ambitious business goals, so we work hard to be flexible to accommodate everyone.
What We Offer
We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, engaging and market-leading organisation with opportunities to develop your existing skills and explore new ones.
You’ll receive an excellent benefits package which typically includes a great base salary, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, pension, private healthcare, volunteering opportunities and much more.
Next Steps and how to apply
If you think this is the role and organisation for you then we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and complete our short application form using the apply button.
We shortlist for our vacancies on an ongoing basis, and we may close a vacancy earlier than the advertised date. Please can you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
City & Guilds are a Disability confident employer. Please let us know if you require any support/adjustments at your interview and if successful any adjustments needed to support you in your role. If this is required, please email; careers@cityandguilds.com