# Senior External Affairs Manager

**Company**: Department for Work and Pensions
**Location**: City of Westminster, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: GBP 56,784 - 63,541 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Government & Public Sector

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## Description

The Department for Work and Pensions is seeking a Senior External Affairs Manager to drive the delivery of high-quality stakeholder engagement across priority policy areas.

The successful candidate will build, develop, and maintain effective relationships with a diverse range of key stakeholders, contribute to strategic communications planning, and support senior leaders in their engagement activities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and implementing comprehensive stakeholder engagement strategies that align with departmental priorities and policy goals.

- Identifying influential stakeholders across various sectors, monitoring their positions on key issues, and producing regular reports.

- Managing relationships through direct engagement, events, and tailored communications while building advocacy for government initiatives.

- Creating compelling briefing materials, presentations, and stakeholder correspondence for ministers and senior officials.

- Personally briefing and advising ministers and senior officials on their engagement activity.

- Coordinating with colleagues across government to ensure a joined-up approach to external engagement.

- Contributing to cross-cutting communications campaigns, ensuring stakeholder perspectives are integrated into planning and delivery to reach the end audience.

- Evaluating the impact of stakeholder engagement activities to demonstrate value and inform future approaches.

The External Affairs team aims to:

- Develop and manage long-lasting two-way relationships with stakeholders, built on a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.

- Facilitate the gathering of stakeholder insight, feeding this into the communications directorate and the wider Department to support the development of better policy.

- Deliver exceptional stakeholder communications, partnerships, and collaborations to ensure that stakeholders understand DWP policies and the Department’s objectives.

In return, the Department offers a competitive salary of £56,784 - £63,541 per year, a generous benefits package including a Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme, and opportunities for career development and growth.

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## Skills

### Required
- stakeholder engagement
- external affairs
- public relations
- strategic communications
- relationship building

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