About the roleThe contemporary health and social care landscape across the four UK nations presents an increasingly challenging environment for those providing, accessing and receiving care. At the NMC, we use our communications expertise to inform, engage, influence and empower, to support nursing and midwifery professionals to deliver the care people need and expect.If you are passionate about helping to improve health and care for the benefit of people and communities and are keen to use your experience in public affairs or stakeholder engagement and your influencing skills to do just that, this is the job for you. We are looking for a Senior External Affairs Officer to support the NMC to build and develop relationships with individuals and organisations in health and care across the UK, to strengthen our ability to regulate effectively, support professionals and influence, to improve health and care for the benefit of the public. In this role you will play an important part in developing relationships with the UK health and care system’s stakeholders and political stakeholders, gather and share stakeholder intelligence with the organisation and use that insight to provide strategic advice to senior colleagues and support them with their engagement. About you 

• You’ll have experience of working in a stakeholder engagement role or public affairs role, delivering effective stakeholder relationship management and influencing activity to support the delivery of an organisation’s strategic objectives
• You’ll have good political judgement, critical thinking and can demonstrate the ability to horizon scan, and to analyse insight and identify opportunities and risks
• You’ll have experience of building strong collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• You’ll have experience of working to tight deadlines and delivering under pressure
• You’ll have a track record of using innovative approaches to communications and engagement, and will be able to show how you’ve put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of what you do

• 30 days annual leave - plus bank holidays 
• Enhanced Pension Contributions via our attractive Pension Scheme – with a basic 8% employer contribution as standard which increases up to 14% with optional added Employee Contributions 
• Life Insurance – 4 x current salary
• Hybrid/Flexible working policies
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• 24 Hours Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Perkbox membership 
• Subsidised restaurant in our Portland Place office
• Season ticket loans 

Our core role is to regulate. First, we promote high education and professional standards for nurses and midwives across the UK, and nursing associates in England. Second, we maintain the register of professionals eligible to practise. Third, we investigate concerns about nurses, midwives and nursing associates - something that affects a tiny minority of professionals each year. We believe in giving professionals the chance to address concerns, but we’ll always take action when needed. 

To regulate well, we support our professions and the public. We create resources and guidance that are useful throughout people’s careers, helping them to deliver our standards in practice and address new challenges. We also support people involved in our investigations, and we’re increasing our visibility so people feel engaged and empowered to shape our work.

Regulating and supporting our professions allows us to influence health and social care. We share intelligence from our regulatory activities and work with our partners to support workforce planning and sector-wide decision making. We use our voice to speak up for a healthy and inclusive working environment for our professions.

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Please note, if we receive a high level of applications, we may choose to close this advert early. We encourage you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.Our Pay PolicyIt is expected that staff new to the NMC will ordinarily be appointed to the bottom of the relevant pay band. However in exceptional circumstances, it may be possible to offer a salary above the bottom of the relevant pay band but we may request proof of current earnings. Please note that we offer an annual review of salaries and adopt a generous progressive pay approach. Further details of which are available on request.For our internal colleagues, you will be paid in accordance to our internal pay policy. Reasonable adjustmentsWe will provide reasonable adjustments to support disabled candidates throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you need any additional support to enable you to make an application with us.Screening and vettingAll of our roles are subject to pre-employment checks. We are in the process of introducing a vetting policy, and it is possible that this role may become subject to DBS and further vetting checks in future.