About the role
If you’re passionate about policy and politics, you’ll fit right in to our enthusiastic and vibrant team.
This position is for the digital, technology, culture and sport portfolio, which covers the work of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as well as overlapping areas pertaining to retail trade and employment. Applications should refer to the role and detail any relevant policy expertise in these areas.
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a highly-respected political intelligence team, providing market-leading intelligence services to ensure our clients stay ahead of political developments. We provide fast, focused, and comprehensive information and insight on the activities of legislatures, government, and a variety of stakeholders to clients across a wide range of sectors. In a time of political turmoil, keeping our clients constantly informed is a dynamic challenge.
You’ll be part of a team of fellow consultants, each of whom are experts in their respective policy areas, and will be providing finger-on-the-pulse analysis to your clients on a daily basis.
You will work towards becoming a respected authority within the industry on all issues relating to your specialist policy area and key stakeholders, with the potential opportunity to write articles for media publications and participate in broadcasting and panel discussions.
This role is based at our London office. Colleagues spend some of their working week in the office and some days working from home (usually 2-3 days in the office per week). If you would like to explore flexible working options, we would be happy to discuss this as part of the interview process.
What’s it like to work with us?
At Dods we focus on our 3C’s: Collaboration, Continuous improvement, and Customers. We live these values by offering employees opportunities to further their skills through learning and development and training, plenty of opportunities to connect across teams to network, socialise and volunteer, and by always keeping the customer at the forefront. Our inclusive culture means there are always room for new ideas, opportunities to be creative and continuous improvement.
Situated in the heart of London, the office working environment is collaborative, bright and airy with everyone together in one space. There’s always a bit of a buzz and conversation going on, and people really like to chat and help each other. The office is small enough that everyone knows everyone’s name, so colleagues work across teams on shared projects.
We prize initiative and creativity in how you best provide intelligence to your hugely diverse range of clients. We invest in our consultant’s expertise and will support you in gaining new skills with dedicated funding for your learning and development.
We’ve provided political intelligence for 190 years, and while we’re looking into how to leverage artificial intelligence, we know that it’s still our people and how we support our customers personally that makes us different. Work can be fast-paced – there’s an expectation that a customers can get straight through to their Consultant or
