external relations officers

Our external relations officers are critical to establishing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and have the scope and support to increase understanding of how the Met is changing to deliver its priorities of More Trust, Less Crime, High Standards and influence advocacy and support for the Met.

These are exciting, fascinating, fast paced, and high-profile external relations roles with huge diversity of stakeholders, responsible for issues that matter deeply to the public and with the opportunity to have a real impact on the trust and confidence of stakeholders and the public.

In this role you will work as part of a team responsible for political and stakeholder engagement alongside the delivery of visits and events, providing excellent communication and engagement informed by insightful policy and political advice.

The role:

• You will help us drive and build advocacy around the mission and priorities set out in our A New Met for London plan, our blueprint for delivering a different way of policing for the capital.


• The team's work stretches across government, the Mayor's Office and MOPAC, Members of Parliament, Assembly Members, international delegations, the third sector, key community groups and business.


• You will play a key role in helping us tell our reform journey in different ways whether that's by setting up a roundtable event, hosting a reception, or bring guests up close with our specialist capabilities. Creativity will be key.


• On any day you may manage a MPs' case work to resolution, monitor a parliamentary debate, summarise a key stakeholder report, proactively set up a meeting between a stakeholder and a Chief Officer, or support the delivery of a VIP visit.


• The key responsibilities for this role include:


• Drafting high quality briefing notes and correspondence for external stakeholders and submissions, itineraries and briefing to support visits and events.


• Providing policy or issues-based research and briefings, prioritising inquiries, and responses to reactive activity - including rebutting inaccurate or misinformed commentary from stakeholders.


• Developing and delivering campaign plans, informed by stakeholder mapping.


• Delivering and taking ownership of small-scale visits and events and leading on aspects of large scale and high-profile visits and events.


• Building relationships with new and existing stakeholders to delivery advocacy for the Met's A New Met for London plan.


• Proactively identify opportunities to engage with stakeholders in support of A New Met for London.


• Preparing officers and staff ahead of visits and events ensuring they are confident to attend and know what is expected of them.


• Successfully resolving case work issues received from Members of Parliament and Assembly Members.


• Taking part in the evaluation of the delivery of strategic plans and implement learnings.


• Being a member of the External Relations on-call rota and some occasional out of hours working if circumstances demand it and at short notice.
  
  You will be part of working a weekend rota (approximately one weekend in five) with premium pay for weekends and time off in lieu and may be required to provide other out of hours cover with appropriate notice. You will also be part of an on-call rota.