Are you passionate about engaging with stakeholders and driving advocacy? Join our Stakeholder & Public Affairs team at West Coast Partnership, where you'll play a crucial role in protecting and promoting our reputation.

Our team engages with a wide range of external stakeholders to provide understanding, drive advocacy, mitigate criticism, and showcase achievements. We collaborate with partners to raise third-party investment and develop schemes that deliver improvements for customers, communities, and regional economies. In this role you will lead stakeholder engagement across the West Coast Partnership (WCP) franchise, supporting the Head of Public Affairs and you will implement public affairs strategies, tactics, and message development to achieve our objectives.

This role can be based in our Birmingham or London office.

Key Accountabilities:

• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage daily with stakeholders across Westminster and the South to protect and promote AWC and WCPD's reputation.
• Strategy and Activities: Support strategy development and deliver regional public affairs activities.
• Event Coordination: Manage events like conferences, speeches, panels, roundtables, and Party Conferences for impactful outcomes.
• Written Engagement: Handle newsletters, briefings, stakeholder bulletins, and correspondence with MPs.
• Political Insight and Reporting: Provide political insight, manage reporting, oversee the public affairs budget, and collaborate with media and comms teams.

Who we're looking for:

• Public Affairs Expertise: In external engagement and providing political counsel to senior colleagues.
• Influencing and Networking: With executives, senior policymakers, and industry leaders.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Leading in complex, high-profile organisations.
• Communication and Project Management: With attention to detail and delivering under pressure.

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Benefits include:

• Final salary pension
• Free travel on Avanti West Coast for you/spouse/partner/dependents
• Privilege Travel card (75% off other train operators fares for leisure travel)
• 30 days holiday rising by 1 for every completed year of service to a maximum of 37 days (inclusive of bank holidays)
• 10 free journeys on other First Group Train Operator

Apply now and be part of a team that's dedicated to creating an outstanding workplace culture.

At Avanti West Coast, we value the differences that make each of us unique! Avanti West Coast recognises the benefits of building a diverse workforce and employing people from diverse backgrounds, which includes their race, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability and sexual orientation.

Everyone who joins Avanti West Coast becomes part of our close knit team. We're committed to ensuring that Avanti West Coast is inclusive, a place where people are encouraged to be themselves, and not an edited version to fit in. A place where differences are welcomed, recognised, accepted and put to good use!