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Public Affairs Officer

Professional Membership Body

Hybrid Working (Central London and Home)

Salary: £39310 plus a generous benefits package

Full Time, Permanent

My client, a leading professional membership body based in Central London with over 19,000 members of all ages, stages or disciplines across the UK, is currently recruiting for a Public Affairs Officer

If you are a Public Affairs Officer, Advisor or Executive with experience in advocacy, research, writing, stakeholder engagement, and influencing government or regulatory policy in and around Westminster, parliament, political landscape within a membership or trade association working as part of a team we would love to hear from you.

The Role of Policy and Public Affairs Officer

We’re looking for someone to join our policy and public affairs team to develop the association’s policy on a range of issues, through engagement with members, and deliver joined-up campaigns for policy change across the UK.

We’re looking for an individual with excellent policy and public affairs skills, who is experienced in undertaking research and analysis. You will work on a number of interesting and complex issues, so you’ll need to be able to digest and condense a range of information and material. You will work closely with volunteers and external stakeholders, so excellent communication skills are essential.

To apply to this role of Public Affairs Officer please send your CV,

Due to the volume of applications we are only able to contact successful applicants. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 10 working days please deem your application as unsuccessful on this occasion.

Membership Bespoke is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role. Membership Bespoke positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Membership Bespoke is the most experienced membership-focused recruitment firm in the UK, with 10+ years of experience delivering tailored permanent, temporary, interim, and Executive Search recruitment solutions to Trade Associations, Regulatory Bodies, Political Parties, and Professional Bodies.

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This opportunity is for a Public Affairs / communications role that is ideal for someone with strong Labour connections.

Public Affairs Officer

Professional Membership Body

Hybrid Working (Central London and Home)

Salary: £39310 plus a generous benefits package

Full Time, Permanent

My client, a leading professional membership body based in Central London with over 19,000 members of all ages, stages or disciplines across the UK, is currently recruiting for a Public Affairs Officer

If you are a Public Affairs Officer, Advisor or Executive with experience in advocacy, research, writing, stakeholder engagement, and influencing government or regulatory policy in and around Westminster, parliament, political landscape within a membership or trade association working as part of a team we would love to hear from you.

The Role of Policy and Public Affairs Officer

We’re looking for someone to join our policy and public affairs team to develop the association’s policy on a range of issues, through engagement with members, and deliver joined-up campaigns for policy change across the UK.

We’re looking for an individual with excellent policy and public affairs skills, who is experienced in undertaking research and analysis. You will work on a number of interesting and complex issues, so you’ll need to be able to digest and condense a range of information and material. You will work closely with volunteers and external stakeholders, so excellent communication skills are essential.

To apply to this role of Public Affairs Officer please send your CV,

Due to the volume of applications we are only able to contact successful applicants. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 10 working days please deem your application as unsuccessful on this occasion.

Membership Bespoke is acting as a recruitment business in relation to this role. Membership Bespoke positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Membership Bespoke is the most experienced membership-focused recruitment firm in the UK, with 10+ years of experience delivering tailored permanent, temporary, interim, and Executive Search recruitment solutions to Trade Associations, Regulatory Bodies, Political Parties, and Professional Bodies.

Director – Public Affairs

Central London, hybrid

This fast-growing consultancy, founded in the last six years, has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting players in the UK communications and public affairs landscape. Despite being relatively young, it has built an impressive reputation for helping leading global companies earn and protect their reputations. With a client list that includes some of the world’s most recognisable names across tech, retail, aviation, and consumer brands, it offers the opportunity to work at the heart of complex, high-profile issues that shape the national conversation.

The consultancy is proud of its distinctive culture: positive, supportive, and ambitious in equal measure. Its senior team are not only experts in their fields—ranging from senior Government advisers to high-profile journalists—but also dedicated mentors who take genuine care in developing their people. Growth is central to their philosophy: both organisational growth (the team is scaling quickly) and individual growth, with career development and progression built into the fabric of how they operate.

The Role

The consultancy is seeking a senior public affairs professional with deep UK experience to join its leadership team. This Director role will combine strategic client advisory, senior account leadership, and team development. It is a rare opportunity to shape both client outcomes and the trajectory of a fast-growing business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as strategic adviser to clients, particularly on public and corporate affairs.
• Leading on high-profile accounts, ensuring consistently excellent advice and delivery.
• Building and nurturing senior client relationships, while fostering new business opportunities.
• Contributing to the Senior Leadership Team, helping to shape the consultancy’s future direction.
• Coaching and developing consultants across the team, ensuring a culture of excellence and support.
• Driving business development and supporting the consultancy’s marketing strategy.

The Candidate

• Strong and proven UK public affairs experience gained within a consultancy environment
• A track record of leading high-profile client accounts and delivering outstanding strategic advice.
• Cross sector expertise required - desirable sectors include property & Infrastructure, technology, consumer industries and financial services
• The ability to operate at pace, navigating complex regulatory and political environments.
• A collaborative and supportive approach to leadership, with a commitment to developing others.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and appetite to be part of a consultancy scaling rapidly.
• Excellent cross party connections
• Strong commercial skills - including driving new business and organic revenue growth.

Why join?

This consultancy offers the chance to be part of something genuinely exciting: a fast-growing, values-led business, working with some of the world’s most high-profile companies. The environment is thoughtful, supportive, and ambitious—where talented people are trusted, empowered, and given the freedom to do their best work. For the right candidate, it represents a career-defining move.

We are welcoming applications for the position of Account Manager. This is a great opportunity to become a critical part of our growing, ambitious Public Affairs team.

About Brands2Life Public Affairs

We are The Agency for the Brands Transforming Our World, and we create and deliver transformative communications for the world’s most exciting and innovative brands.

We work with our clients to enhance their reputation with public affairs stakeholders, resolve policy challenges, and shape their regulatory and policy environment to support commercial objectives.

The award-winning Public Affairs team sits within our wider Corporate Affairs & Responsible Business Practice, allowing for fully integrated policy and media work. We’re growing – with rapid expansion over the last year, we now need to bolster our team!

And because you’ll be joining a public affairs team that sits within a wider communications agency, you’ll have incredible chances to learn quickly, gain additional responsibilities, and expand your areas of expertise.

Our clients include some of the most interesting, dynamic and disruptive brands around. From semiconductor manufacturing and women’s health, to food and drink producers and clean energy technology, we work on some of the most important and purposeful policy issues facing the UK today.

About the role

As an Account Manager you will be at the heart of driving activity for your clients, working alongside colleagues in our media engagement, social and digital, studio and health teams. You will also make a significant contribution to identifying and securing new business opportunities for the team.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing day-to-day client account activities : Ensuring that all activities to further our clients’ programmes are delivered to an outstanding standard, on time, and within budget
• Client liaison : You’ll be the main point of contact for your clients – keeping them up to date with account developments, sharing the excellent results you achieve, and ensuring that they are happy with progress.
• Monitoring and political intelligence : You will have your ear close to the ground, coordinating monitoring across our team and clients, feeding intelligence back to clients in timely manner, and ensuring that that insight helps direct the focuses of our programme.
• Developing outstanding content for clients: Developing a range of content to support our clients’ engagement, including briefings for stakeholder meetings, consultation responses, reports and position papers.
• Contributing to marketing and new business activities : We expect our Account Managers to support with the team’s new business activity, including writing blogs and other content on political topics, researching new business leads, and supporting on new business pitch activities

About you

If you’re a political geek, you’ll fit in well with our team. We love to discuss and debate what’s going on in politics – and we’ll need you to too. It’s that interest and thoughtfulness that means we offer clients outstanding counsel and advice.

We’re particularly keen to hear from candidates with current or previous experience working in a public affairs or communications agency , who are used to juggling multiple clients and delivering high-quality work at pace.

Beyond that, we’ll need you to have:

• An excellent understanding of people and process in Whitehall, Westminster and the devolved administrations, as well as the political and policy environment
• A creative mind, able to develop innovative and interesting approaches to delivering our clients’ key advocacy
• Great political instincts around what works and what doesn’t when it comes to influencing policy development
• Outstanding writing skills, and an understanding of when to use different styles of writing for different audiences and purposes
• Excellent attention to detail both when creating content from scratch and reviewing colleagues’ work

About Brands2Life

All employees at Brands2Life are offered a fantastic working environment, excellent long-term career opportunities and highly competitive range of benefits. We offer regular internal and external training (at all levels), 360 reviews, personal development plans, health and dental insurance, flexible working, and plenty of company socials. As well as all of that, we offer a two-month sabbatical after four years (paid!).

As of December 2023, Brands2Life has been part of the Paritee agency platform, a new kind of network that combines the best of large agency thinking and entrepreneurial excellence. Paritee has a vision to create a new breed of agency network and model for collaboration, one that brings together National Champion agencies in each key market and enables them to co-operate for mutual benefit and to provide clients with world-class services and advice, based on deep sector insight.

We’re proud to share that Brands2Life was recently named PRWeek's Large Consultancy of the Year, a recognition that reflects the strength of our work, our people, and the impact we deliver for clients. It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to grow and take on new challenges!

*Brands2Life is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds. We believe a diverse and inclusive workforce enhances our ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or citizenship status.

Account Manager

Built Environment/ Community Engagement

£38,000 -£45,000

Central London - hybrid working

A fantastic opportunity to join a communications agency that helps build the homes, clean energy, and infrastructure our communities need. The business is growing from strength to strength and now need a Communications Account Manager

You’ll be responsible :

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of assigned client projects.
• Develop clear project plans and timelines, aligning all stakeholders.
• Lead the execution of communications campaigns, including digitally led campaigns
• Coordinate events and workshops
• Maintain accurate project records using CRM and project management tools.
• Produce clear, high-quality written deliverables.

To be considered :

• Proven experience in account or project management gained within a communications agency
• PR or community engagement within the built environment,
• Comfortable working with a range of stakeholders, from residents to senior corporate clients.
• Familiarity with planning processes or local government.
• Background in communications, advocacy, or campaigns.
• Passionate about sustainable development and building genuine local support.

Account Manager

Built Environment/ Community Engagement

£38,000 -£45,000

Central London - hybrid working

A fantastic opportunity to join a communications agency that helps build the homes, clean energy, and infrastructure our communities need. The business is growing from strength to strength and now need a Communications Account Manager

You’ll be responsible :

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of assigned client projects.
• Develop clear project plans and timelines, aligning all stakeholders.
• Lead the execution of communications campaigns, including digitally led campaigns
• Coordinate events and workshops
• Maintain accurate project records using CRM and project management tools.
• Produce clear, high-quality written deliverables.

To be considered :

• Proven experience in account or project management gained within a communications agency
• PR or community engagement within the built environment,
• Comfortable working with a range of stakeholders, from residents to senior corporate clients.
• Familiarity with planning processes or local government.
• Background in communications, advocacy, or campaigns.
• Passionate about sustainable development and building genuine local support.

We are welcoming applications for the position of Account Manager. This is a great opportunity to become a critical part of our growing, ambitious Public Affairs team.

About Brands2Life Public Affairs

We are The Agency for the Brands Transforming Our World, and we create and deliver transformative communications for the world’s most exciting and innovative brands.

We work with our clients to enhance their reputation with public affairs stakeholders, resolve policy challenges, and shape their regulatory and policy environment to support commercial objectives.

The award-winning Public Affairs team sits within our wider Corporate Affairs & Responsible Business Practice, allowing for fully integrated policy and media work. We’re growing – with rapid expansion over the last year, we now need to bolster our team!

And because you’ll be joining a public affairs team that sits within a wider communications agency, you’ll have incredible chances to learn quickly, gain additional responsibilities, and expand your areas of expertise.

Our clients include some of the most interesting, dynamic and disruptive brands around. From semiconductor manufacturing and women’s health, to food and drink producers and clean energy technology, we work on some of the most important and purposeful policy issues facing the UK today.

About the role

As an Account Manager you will be at the heart of driving activity for your clients, working alongside colleagues in our media engagement, social and digital, studio and health teams. You will also make a significant contribution to identifying and securing new business opportunities for the team.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing day-to-day client account activities : Ensuring that all activities to further our clients’ programmes are delivered to an outstanding standard, on time, and within budget
• Client liaison : You’ll be the main point of contact for your clients – keeping them up to date with account developments, sharing the excellent results you achieve, and ensuring that they are happy with progress.
• Monitoring and political intelligence : You will have your ear close to the ground, coordinating monitoring across our team and clients, feeding intelligence back to clients in timely manner, and ensuring that that insight helps direct the focuses of our programme.
• Developing outstanding content for clients: Developing a range of content to support our clients’ engagement, including briefings for stakeholder meetings, consultation responses, reports and position papers.
• Contributing to marketing and new business activities : We expect our Account Managers to support with the team’s new business activity, including writing blogs and other content on political topics, researching new business leads, and supporting on new business pitch activities

About you

If you’re a political geek, you’ll fit in well with our team. We love to discuss and debate what’s going on in politics – and we’ll need you to too. It’s that interest and thoughtfulness that means we offer clients outstanding counsel and advice.

We’re particularly keen to hear from candidates with current or previous experience working in a public affairs or communications agency , who are used to juggling multiple clients and delivering high-quality work at pace.

Beyond that, we’ll need you to have:

• An excellent understanding of people and process in Whitehall, Westminster and the devolved administrations, as well as the political and policy environment
• A creative mind, able to develop innovative and interesting approaches to delivering our clients’ key advocacy
• Great political instincts around what works and what doesn’t when it comes to influencing policy development
• Outstanding writing skills, and an understanding of when to use different styles of writing for different audiences and purposes
• Excellent attention to detail both when creating content from scratch and reviewing colleagues’ work

About Brands2Life

All employees at Brands2Life are offered a fantastic working environment, excellent long-term career opportunities and highly competitive range of benefits. We offer regular internal and external training (at all levels), 360 reviews, personal development plans, health and dental insurance, flexible working, and plenty of company socials. As well as all of that, we offer a two-month sabbatical after four years (paid!).

As of December 2023, Brands2Life has been part of the Paritee agency platform, a new kind of network that combines the best of large agency thinking and entrepreneurial excellence. Paritee has a vision to create a new breed of agency network and model for collaboration, one that brings together National Champion agencies in each key market and enables them to co-operate for mutual benefit and to provide clients with world-class services and advice, based on deep sector insight.

We’re proud to share that Brands2Life was recently named PRWeek's Large Consultancy of the Year, a recognition that reflects the strength of our work, our people, and the impact we deliver for clients. It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue to grow and take on new challenges!

*Brands2Life is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds. We believe a diverse and inclusive workforce enhances our ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or citizenship status.

Director – Public Affairs

Central London, hybrid

This fast-growing consultancy, founded in the last six years, has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting players in the UK communications and public affairs landscape. Despite being relatively young, it has built an impressive reputation for helping leading global companies earn and protect their reputations. With a client list that includes some of the world’s most recognisable names across tech, retail, aviation, and consumer brands, it offers the opportunity to work at the heart of complex, high-profile issues that shape the national conversation.

The consultancy is proud of its distinctive culture: positive, supportive, and ambitious in equal measure. Its senior team are not only experts in their fields—ranging from senior Government advisers to high-profile journalists—but also dedicated mentors who take genuine care in developing their people. Growth is central to their philosophy: both organisational growth (the team is scaling quickly) and individual growth, with career development and progression built into the fabric of how they operate.

The Role

The consultancy is seeking a senior public affairs professional with deep UK experience to join its leadership team. This Director role will combine strategic client advisory, senior account leadership, and team development. It is a rare opportunity to shape both client outcomes and the trajectory of a fast-growing business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as strategic adviser to clients, particularly on public and corporate affairs.
• Leading on high-profile accounts, ensuring consistently excellent advice and delivery.
• Building and nurturing senior client relationships, while fostering new business opportunities.
• Contributing to the Senior Leadership Team, helping to shape the consultancy’s future direction.
• Coaching and developing consultants across the team, ensuring a culture of excellence and support.
• Driving business development and supporting the consultancy’s marketing strategy.

The Candidate

• Strong and proven UK public affairs experience gained within a consultancy environment
• A track record of leading high-profile client accounts and delivering outstanding strategic advice.
• Cross sector expertise required - desirable sectors include property & Infrastructure, technology, consumer industries and financial services
• The ability to operate at pace, navigating complex regulatory and political environments.
• A collaborative and supportive approach to leadership, with a commitment to developing others.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and appetite to be part of a consultancy scaling rapidly.
• Excellent cross party connections
• Strong commercial skills - including driving new business and organic revenue growth.

Why join?

This consultancy offers the chance to be part of something genuinely exciting: a fast-growing, values-led business, working with some of the world’s most high-profile companies. The environment is thoughtful, supportive, and ambitious—where talented people are trusted, empowered, and given the freedom to do their best work. For the right candidate, it represents a career-defining move.