Senior Engagement OfficerinNewcastle upon TyneinNewcastle upon TynePUBLISHED THU 13 FEB 2025
Health Research Authorityr5V1NFfZ
In addition to leading specific engagement activities, the officer will provide strategic insights on stakeholder intelligence, monitor relevant developments, and share findings to guide HRA's engagement strategies. The role requires collaboration across the Policy and Partnerships directorate and includes delivering internal updates to support HRA staff. Applications are accepted directly and must meet specific criteria outlined in the job description.
The Senior Engagement Officer helps the HRA talk to, listen to, and involve the right people at the right times to inform what the HRA does and how we do it to have the biggest impact.
You will help us identify, build, and maintain relationships with key stakeholders. You will both build relationships yourself and support staff across the HRA to do so.
You will have an overview of all the HRA's external engagement, helping us to use this effectively to share information and gather intelligence to inform and improve what we do.
In this role you will have the opportunity to both lead on specific engagement, as well as supporting colleagues across the HRA to deliver engagement activities.
You will provide the secretariat for the HRA Community Committee. This is a new Committee made up of members of our research ethics committees, the confidentiality advisory group and members of the public who work with us through our public involvement network. This Committee will increase the role of the HRA community in the HRA's governance, ensuring the views of our community inform what we do.
You will be an intelligence lead for one of our stakeholder audiences. In this role you will monitor developments and issues affecting this stakeholder audience, distilling and interpreting this information to show how this may affect the HRA. You will share this intelligence internally and use this to inform how we engage with them.
You will lead the delivery of an internal weekly update to support all HRA staff in their roles.
About us
This role sits within the Policy and Partnerships directorate which is made up of three teams: policy and engagement, communications and public involvement. We provide support and advice across the organisation on communicating with staff and external audiences, engaging with stakeholders and involving patients and the public in our work. To find out more and to understand the full duties of the role, please refer to the job description attached. In submitting your application with us, please note the following: We currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies. We do not hold a sponsorship licence and are unable to offer employment under any sponsorship arrangement. Where applicants fail to demonstrate how they meet any one of the essential criteria of the person specification, the application will not be shortlisted. You will be considered based only on the information in your application form. CVs will not be considered. The HRA reserves the right to close this vacancy early should it receive a sufficient number of applications.
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