Stakeholder and Engagement Manager - NEST Corporation : Job Details

Role OverviewNest Insight’s communications team deploys all owned and earned channels, alongside direct engagement with stakeholders and influencers, for maximum impact. We ensure resilience across the team through a flexible approach, in which team members are able to flex between activities to deliver a strategic and integrated communications programme, support one another, provide cover at times of annual leave or other absence, and develop skills across multiple communications disciplines. We offer training and development which supports this breadth.We have recently secured a major grant from a Foundation which will support an 18-month project to find new and better financial tools to support and build financial resilience for people on low and moderate incomes. In the UK, more than 7 million low-income households went without essentials in the first half of 2023, and 4.5 million were in arrears. Over 2 million households were borrowing money to pay their bills. The scale of high-cost lending in the UK was already significant before the start of the Covid pandemic, with 3 million consumers using high-cost credit on a regular basis. And more than 3 million people may have borrowed from an illegal moneylender in the last three years. You will work on activating our research evidence and recommendations, through both private and public strategic engagement activity. This will include convening a diverse range of stakeholders and communicating and co-ordinating diverse and relevant stakeholder and influencing audiences, including policy makers, financial services providers, product designers and innovators, employers, and the ecosystem of organisations who influence them – including thinktanks and campaigning organisations.Our objectives are to:

• Reinforce the learnings from the financial resilience programme and other Nest Insight work to policy-makers, the financial services industry, employers and regulators
• Develop our relationships with our key stakeholder audiences, to ensure Nest Insight’s research and insights are being made full use of by policy-makers, financial product designers and employers
• Create a link between our policy agenda and other live policy debates, such as the development of a national financial inclusion strategy, and the debate over the future of pensions auto enrolment in the Pensions Review
• Participate in, contribute to and influence external events, forums, media and policy consultations

You will be an outstanding influencer with a track record in designing and delivering engagement programmes which create impact, and experience in designing and organising advocacy and engagement activities including roundtables, workshops, campaigns, reports and briefings for a range of different audiences. You will be curious and solutions-focussed, and interested in how engagement can contribute to an integrated communications approach.Please note that Nest Insight is part of a public body and this is not a lobbying role.Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributesrequired for this role.Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. Flexible and agile workingEveryone's personal situation is different.To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required) 
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work compressed hours
• job share

Directorate/Department OverviewNest Insight’s mission is to find ways to support people to be financially secure, both today and into retirement. To do this, we conduct rigorous, cutting-edge research, working collaboratively with industry and academic partners to understand the needs and behaviours of the new generation of savers created by the UK’s pensions auto enrolment system. We also consider how self-employed workers and others at risk of missing out on pension saving can be brought in.Diversity, Equity and InclusionEveryone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, belief, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, socio economic background, sex, sexual orientation, religion or race or any other legally protected status.We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you’re applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: .uk.