Public Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement Executive in Liverpool

Salary: £30,000 to £35,000 per annum

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Reports to: Public Affairs Manager

Direct reports: None

Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.

Extra Information: Open to conversation on hybrid, flexible and compressed working arrangements.

About the role: The Motability Foundation is seeking a proactive Public Affairs and Stakeholder Engagement professional to join the Communications team and help drive forward our public affairs and wider engagement activity. Reflecting the current dynamic political environment, we are looking for a driven Executive to play a critical role in promoting and enhancing awareness of the Motability Foundation among key political stakeholders, as well as wider audiences across the disability sector, transport operators, and other relevant stakeholder groups.

What you will be doing:

• Supporting the implementation of public affairs activities aligned with the Motability Foundation’s vision and overall strategy.
• Amplifying the Motability Foundation’s voice in Parliament, across the devolved nations, by supporting political engagement work under the guidance of the Public Affairs Manager.
• Monitoring the political, legislative and regulatory landscapes in relation to the work of the Motability Foundation and providing timely updates to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Providing updates on relevant political developments and drafting briefings for Governors, Directors, senior management and a variety of audiences across the organisation where appropriate.
• Supporting the delivery of a contact program with key stakeholders, raising awareness of the work of the Motability Foundation, supporting work to establish regular meetings for senior leaders and facilitating dialogue on issues relevant to our work.
• Working closely with colleagues across the Public Affairs and Policy functions to prepare materials to support our work to communicate policy positions and outputs to the external world.
• Building and maintaining external stakeholder relationships with key audiences, including disabled people’s organisations, disability charities, transport sector stakeholders, and wider industry bodies.
• Working with colleagues across Branding and Marketing to support the creation of written literature for key audiences to communicate the impact of the Foundation’s work.

Your experience:

Must haves:

• Solid grasp of parliamentary processes in Westminster and the Devolved Nations, and familiarity with wider Parliamentary functions and vehicles – e.g. All Party Parliamentary and Cross-Party Groups.
• Prior experience of working in public affairs or similar field.
• Experience of regular political monitoring and familiarity with utilising political monitoring services - i.e. DeHavilland, Polimonitor or similar.
• Ability to advance projects independently with appropriate support from senior team members, while contributing effectively to team efforts.
• Experience of producing briefing notes for stakeholder meetings and updating on policy developments for a variety of audiences.
• Comfortable drafting written communications designed for political audiences – e.g. emails, letters, briefing notes.
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities to influence policy and shape political activity.
• Strong communication skills, with an ability to grasp complex issues quickly and share information in an accessible way to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to engage effectively with stakeholders in Government, industry, and other charities and foundations, particularly via written communications.
• Highly IT literate with extensive experience of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice to haves:

• Understanding of key disability and transport issues, such as the social model of disability, inclusive micro mobility, or the transition to electric vehicles.
• Experience of supporting the delivery of pre-election engagement and post-election political outreach activity to political stakeholders.
• Prior experience in working with third sector stakeholders.

If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we’d still encourage you to apply.

Who are we? We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose. We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work toward making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.

Why choose us? We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you’ve ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries. We value everyone’s unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving. We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff. We are proud to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader, have attained Platinum Level Award for Investors in People and are members of the Business Disability Forum.

Some benefits: We are proud to offer some fantastic benefits. Some of these include:

• 26 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/sell up to five days.
• One wellbeing day for extra flexibility.
• Pension - Up to 20%, inclusive of a 10% non-contributory addition and Motability matching your contributions up to 5%.
• Life Assurance of four times your salary.
• Private healthcare with BUPA and Medicash Health Plan.
• Employee assistance programme including GP appointments, eye tests, flu vaccinations, enhanced sick pay and free Gym and Yoga sessions.
• Enhanced Parental Leave inclusive of Adoption Pay.
• Free parking, electric charge points and a minibus service to and from the town centre and train station for those using public transport to reach us.
• Fruit and breakfast snacks and a dress for your day dress code.
• Learning and development opportunities, to encourage and empower everyone to grow.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, and we aim to be an employer of choice for candidates with disabilities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing and when working with us, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you. To help us create an inclusive workplace we are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances, we may need to limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates.