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We are looking for an exceptional Strategic Stakeholder Relationship Manager to help us make a difference to our planet.

Our Strategic Stakeholder Relationship Manager will work a hybrid pattern of homeworking and office based work in Exeter HQ.

As our Strategic Stakeholder Relationship Manager, your starting salary will be £37418.00 with opportunities to progress to £41159.00 over time.

New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima. Our total reward package is potentially worth up to £51,847 per annum, which includes basic salary, potential corporate bonus, employer pension contributions.

Relocation Assistance may be available.

Who we are:

We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

Together:

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Find out more about our values - https://bit.ly/3fokaRD

Job Purpose:

A superb opportunity has arisen at the Met Office to join the National Engagement team. This friendly and high performing team manages a range of important corporate functions on behalf of the Met Office Executive and supports delivery of the Met Office’s Corporate Strategy by:

• Developing and managing relationships with strategic stakeholders with a focus on UK Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, and key associated committees, to protect and build the Met Office’s reputation;
• Analysing the external Parliamentary stakeholder landscape to inform Met Office decision making;
• Managing Met Office Parliamentary business and other formal activities to ensure mandatory responsibilities are delivered in a timely manner;
• Providing advice on strategic alignment, opportunities and engagement to enhance Met Office impact across the UK’s governments and parliaments.

This is a busy and varied working environment and you will support a wide range of high profile activities involving select committees, parliamentarians, ministers and government officials. As well as working with senior stakeholders inside and outside the Met Office, you will play an important role internally, joining up with other teams across the directorate and office, informing decision making through external insights, and building awareness and skills.

You will play a leading role in key corporate activities which protect the Met Office’s reputation and ensure that stakeholders in government and parliament have access to authoritative weather and climate science information and advice in order to inform their decision making.

People development and encouraging professional growth is at the core of the Met Office’s ethos, and this role will provide numerous exciting opportunities for learning and development, tailored to individual needs and goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage the Met Office’s parliamentary business, with support from subject matter experts, to ensure mandatory responsibilities are delivered to set deadlines and the Met Office reputation is upheld.
• Maintain a strong understanding of Parliamentary process to guide approach and provide advice to colleagues.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive overview of relevant Parliamentary activity that affects the Met Office and share relevant insights in a timely manner to inform decision making, alignment, service development and engagement.
• Coordinate the Met Office’s response to departmental consultations and Parliamentary Select Committee inquiries, working closely with colleagues from across the office, to ensure that Met Office interests are appropriately represented and inquiries and consultations have robust scientific evidence on which to base their reports.
• Build strong relationships across the office raising awareness of the work of the team and when to engage with us. Help build wider awareness of the work of Government and Parliament, how Met Office work contributes to these, and help develop policy related skills and understanding.
• Contribute to cross-team initiatives and provide surge support on urgent corporate priorities. Play an active role in maintaining the National Engagement team as a proactive, forward thinking and expert function.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities:

• High quality and rapid written communication skills, including experience communicating complex technical information in a way that is easily understood, with particular relevance to Government and Parliament audiences, such as MPs, Select Committee Clerks and government officials.
• Strong knowledge of the internal workings of Government and Parliament, and the processes, requirements and sensitivities relevant to engagement. This includes for example engagement with Select Committees, submissions to Government consultations or official correspondence.
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management, building and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships. This should ideally be within a parliamentary, public sector or government environment.
• Proven ability to build, maintain and influence working relationships with a network of internal stakeholders, including some at senior level.
• Excellent analytical skills with proven ability to understand issues quickly, simplify complexity and provide insight and recommendations.
• Strong organisational skills with proven ability to respond to changing priorities and deliver to deadlines at short notice.
• Quick learner with willingness to develop broad knowledge of Met Office capabilities and their application across government policy and customers, to maximise mutually beneficial opportunities.

Your package includes:

• Outstanding Civil Service Pension
• Flexible hours and homeworking
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years Option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
• Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories

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