Location
Hybrid position based between home and our offices in Kings Cross, London.

Hours
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary
£49,036 per annum

About the Role
Sense has a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our Policy & Public Affairs team as our Policy and Public Affairs Manager. This is a fixed term position due to end in April 2026. This is an exciting role at Sense as we look to grow our influencing work, build on recent successes, and help us to deliver our organisational and departmental objectives. The successful candidate will design and deliver our proactive engagement with parliamentarians and key stakeholders in Government, working in partnership with colleagues across the Engagement directorate to raise the profile of Sense and the people we support.

Key Responsibilities
• Line management of 2 x Policy and Public Affairs advisors.
• Supporting the day-to-day delivery of policy influencing and associated activities.
• Collaborative working across the team and wider directorate to identify opportunities to deliver public affairs activities highlighting Sense and disabled people with complex needs.
• Monitoring the public affairs environment and coordinating reactive and proactive activities.
• Recording and reporting on Sense’s public affairs activities.
• Working with colleagues across the team to ensure that policy positions are relevant, up to date and can be used to support wider campaigning and influencing activities to engage our supporters.

Experience
• Experience of working with parliamentarians to achieve change.
• Broad and deep knowledge of the policy development process and how to influence change.
• Experience of using data and research to shape compelling and robust policy positions and recommendations for change.
• Experience in the creation of compelling reports and narratives tailored to different audiences.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong understanding of parliamentary processes and ways of working.
• Excellent communication skills and great written English: ability to write and edit high-quality content for publications, briefings and across a range of media channels.

About you
• A commitment to disabled people with complex needs and Sense’s vision and values; a willingness to learn how to communicate with disabled people with complex needs and identify the barriers to their participation in all aspects of Sense’s work.
• A demonstrable commitment to diversity, accessibility and inclusion.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are required, but relevant experience and a commitment to the role are essential.