Government Policy Analyst Luton, East of England, England
Job description
Government Policy Analyst – Luton- Hybrid
easyJet has been disrupting the way people travel for 27 years and isn't stopping anytime soon! They welcome diversity in all forms and strive to make their workplace inclusive for everyone. With their Orange Spirit culture, working at easyJet is a unique experience that accelerates personal development. They value flexibility, balance, and wellbeing and are happy to talk about different working arrangements. As Europe's leading airline, easyJet offers a vast network of over 1000 routes across 36 countries and leads the industry in digital and sustainable innovations. They support, empower, and excite their employees and customers in their own unique way. Join the #belongherewithus movement and be part of easyJet's story.
The General Counsel Office (GCO) at easyJet ensures legal, regulatory, and contractual compliance while protecting the business and customers. With a team of around 100 people, including professionals with diverse qualifications and capabilities, GCO handles essential projects such as aircraft procurement, system trials, and government negotiations. GCO offers a fulfilling work environment with hybrid working, flexibility, and travel perks, and employees are deeply embedded within the business as valued partners. The GCO team embodies easyJet's Orange Spirit - positive, inclusive, purpose-driven, problem solvers, and united. With multiple individual and team awards, GCO is successful and ready to support employees in achieving their own success.
What you'll be doing
To support the delivery of key public policy objectives, particularly in relation to government policy development both in key markets within the EU and the UK. The individual will take a supportive role, aiding the policy team in delivering specific policy issues across easyJet’s markets, both UK and in Europe. easyJet has a leading role in sustainability and climate engagement within aviation. We were ranked first among European airlines for our climate engagement and continue to take our commitment to sustainable advocacy seriously. As part of the policy team you will contribute to promoting fair climate policies that apply across the sector and play a positive role in decarbonising aviation. In addition to sustainability issues, you will also have the opportunity to work on a variety of other policy topics with an impact on easyJet’s operations.
What you need to do the role
As a support member of the policy team, your role would involve assisting the Policy Managers and collaborating with them on government engagement activities in the UK, Brussels, and other European capitals. The primary objective is to ensure that easyJet's ethical values and business priorities are effectively represented in official decision-making processes.
Additionally, you would contribute to government policy development in key markets such as the UK and European Union. This entails working with internal teams, including Markets, Communications, Sustainability, Commercial, and Operations, to develop easyJet's positions on policy issues that align with business objectives. You would also play a role in gathering data-driven evidence, identifying potential impacts on easyJet's operations due to policy changes, and managing the policy team's data resources.
Another aspect of your responsibility is assisting in enhancing the impact of easyJet's policy team. This would involve identifying engagement opportunities, arranging meetings with external stakeholders, and overseeing meeting agendas. You would also support the relationship with trade associations and document relevant developments.
Furthermore, part of your role would be to identify proactive opportunities for easyJet to influence government policy and legislative reforms in the UK and other significant European markets, aligning with easyJet's objectives. You would have the opportunity to represent easyJet and its policies during engagements with key aviation stakeholders, which may include travel to Brussels and other locations in the UK and Europe.
In summary, your role encompasses supporting the policy team, contributing to government policy development, enhancing the team's impact, maintaining relationships with trade associations, identifying proactive influence opportunities, and representing easyJet in engagements with key aviation stakeholders.
What we offer in return
Competitive base salary
Up to 20% bonus
25 days holiday
BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
5% pension
Life Assurance
Flexible benefits package
Excellent staff travel benefits
Location & Hours of Work
This full-time role will be based in Hangar 89, Luton Airport, and will be 40 hours per week. Some overseas travel will be required.
About easyJet
At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.
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Complete your application on our careers site.
We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.
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