Events and Engagement Officer - Leeds, United Kingdom - National Infrastructure Commission

National Infrastructure Commission

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Leeds, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £29,320 - £34,900
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Type of role:
Communications / Marketing
Policy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
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Location

One, The Embankment, Neville St, Leeds LS1 4DW. Please note this role involves some UK travel.

About the job

Job summary:

Do you enjoy coordinating events of different sizes, whether a large-scale report launch or an online roundtable? Are you a skilled project manager who enjoys collaborating with teams to achieve high quality results? The National Infrastructure Commission is looking for an organised Events and Engagement Officer to plan and deliver a range of events of different formats and sizes.

About the National Infrastructure Commission

By joining the National Infrastructure Commission, you'll play a key role in delivering independent advice to government on the UK's long-term infrastructure needs.

We do this to help support sustainable economic growth across the whole of the UK, improve competitiveness, support climate resilience and the transition to net zero carbon emissions, and ultimately improve the quality of life of UK citizens.

In fulfilling its purpose and objectives, the Commission:

Sets a long term agenda
identifying the UK's major economic infrastructure needs, and the pathways to address them,
Develops fresh approaches and ideas basing our independent policy recommendations on rigorous analysis, and
Focuses on driving change building consensus on our policy recommendations, and monitoring government progress on their delivery.

The Commission's core responsibilities include:

Producing a National Infrastructure Assessment once every five years, setting out the Commission's assessment of longterm infrastructure needs with recommendations to government on how to meet them;
Carrying out indepth studies into the UK's most pressing infrastructure challenges, making recommendations to government, and
Monitoring the government's progress in delivering infrastructure projects and programmes recommended by the NIC.

We are a small, friendly organisation.

We work to support the Commissioners to push for action on and endorse our recommendations and to monitor government's progress in implementing them.

Job description:

This role is at the heart of the National Infrastructure Commission's work to influence important government policy on net zero, climate resilience and to support regional economic growth.

You will work across the Secretariat at all levels and with Commissioners to ensure we are delivering high quality events of different formats and scales.

This is a hands-on role, with responsibility for planning and delivering high profile launch events both online and in-person, including a dual-site, hybrid launch of our flagship National Infrastructure Assessment due to publish in the autumn.

You will also organise smaller scale roundtables and presentations, online and in-person around the UK, working closely with the stakeholder and strategic engagement lead and policy teams to deliver high quality discussions to a small but targeted group of senior stakeholders.

You will also develop and maintain an effective contact database to support all the Commission's event and stakeholder engagement activity.

The role sits within the Commission Secretariat's Monitoring and Implementation Team, which is part of the Policy Group. It will also involve close working with the Communications Team on larger launch events.

The Secretariat is led by our Chief Executive, supported by a Senior Management Team, comprising the Chief Economist, Directors of Policy and Chief Operating Officer.

The Commission is chaired by Sir John Armitt, with eight other Commissioners at present.

The postholder will be required to travel around the UK to deliver these events. This is likely to involve travelling early morning or working in the evenings or on occasion staying overnight.

You will be expected to travel to the Commission's London office up to two times per month to help deliver in person events and there is likely to be significant levels of travel around the launch of the Assessment in the autumn, though there is no need to have a driving licence or own your own vehicle.

Reasonable travel expenses will be covered in accordance with Commission policy.

Responsibilities

Organising and delivering a range of events and engagements for the Commission including online, in person and hybrid launch events, policy roundtables, and visits to towns and cities in the UK

Tasks include:

Working with the head of communications and stakeholder and strategic engagement lead to clarify the format, objectives and expectations for upcoming events and eng