Head of Influencing (Maternity Cover)

Independent Age is the national charity focused on ending financial hardship in later life. We want every older person to be able to afford to live well. We stand with older people in financial hardship, offering urgent help today and shaping a fairer, more secure tomorrow. Our Helpline and expert advisers offer free, practical support to older people without enough money to live on. Through our grants programme, we support hundreds of local organisations working with older people across the UK. And we use the knowledge and insight gained from our services and partnerships to highlight the issues experienced by older people in poverty and campaign for change. We would love to find individuals from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds to join us on this journey. Responsibilities and Person Specification: The Head of Influencing (maternity cover) will lead a powerful influencing programme across Westminster and Holyrood. They will ensure that our work is centred around the experiences of older people in poverty, and that we undertake strategic and sustained influencing activity to persuade key decision makers and persuaders to support and act on our policy recommendations across the nations. Alongside providing cross organisational media communications and internal communications support. The Head of Influencing will provide effective, inspirational, transparent and compassionate leadership to a large department within the charity. This is a full-time, fixed-term ..... full job details .....