Stakeholder and Engagement Manager

Nest 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. Better financial resilience reduces money-related mental health issues, reducing sickness absence and avoidable accidents and increasing productivity when in work. It reduces the kinds of hardship which can undermine educational attainment and feed through into lower earning capacity and hampered social mobility for future generations. Building household financial resilience has huge potential to support economic growth. The goal of the programme is to enable access to financial resilience tools that work. Nest Insight will develop and trial new solutions for the millions of low- and moderate-income workers who lack financial resilience, building a robust evidence base around what works. The programme will engage with employers, policy-makers, the finance industry and frontline organisations working directly with consumers, advocating for and supporting system-wide change. Our Stakeholder and Engagement Manager will lead engagement for this programme of work, and others as required, working alongside the programme teams, as well as co-ordinating and delivering a stakeholder engagement programme which will create positive impact for Nest Insight's overall narrative and evidence base. The role offers a fantastic opportunity to contribute to the financial wellbeing of potentially millions of people, by ensuring that robust evidence built from innovative real-world trials reaches and influences a wide range of stakeholders. We're looking for someone who can organise effectively, with a flair for creative and impactful communication. You will have the skills, passion and drive to build engagement among stakeholders with this project and our wider research programme, our evidence base and our overall narrative. 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. We are open to discussing working patterns. We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements. Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget. Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role. Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. Flexible and agile working Everyone'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