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This is a superb opportunity to join a small but mighty organisation, with a strong mission to champion older people’s rights internationally. Leading our external-facing policy and influencing in the areas of Gender and Climate, you will ensure the experiences and contributions of older people are central to these policy spaces.

We have made significant progress in recent years, and your evident track record will help take our work into its next stage. This is an ambitious brief, so your strategic thinking and ability to prioritise will be key.

Key purpose of the role
1. To lead the areas of Gender and Climate for Age International’s policy and influencing work, in support of the organisation’s strategic influencing objectives - including influencing relevant external stakeholders.
2. To line manage the Policy Adviser (Health and Humanitarian) and support other Influencing colleagues.
3. To facilitate collaborative working relationships for increased impact.
4. To ensure high quality policy analysis and communications.

Please note that due to the Hybrid nature of this role, the successful applicant will be required to commute to the central London co-working hub regularly. We anticipate this being twice a week. Your travel costs to the London office are not covered by the charity.

Must haves:
The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process: Application = A, Interview = I, Test and/or Presentation = TP

Experience
•    Experience of effective communications with diverse UK and international policy stakeholders across barriers of language, culture and power dynamics. (A I) 
•    Experience of research and policy analysis and translating complex data and evidence into engaging written content for a variety of audiences. (A I) 
•    Experience of influencing stakeholders at different levels within UK political / policy and international institutions to achieve policy change. (A I) 
•    Experience of participating actively in and/ or coordinating civil society networks and working groups to influence decision-makers collaboratively. (A I) 
•    Line management experience, including enabling clear objective setting and supporting professional development. (A I)

Skills and Knowledge 
•    Ability to take a strategic approach to stakeholder influencing and to align policy work with influencing goals. (A I TP) 
•    Ability to build effective working relationships internally and externally, to consult, negotiate and build support for initiatives across teams and with partner organisations, balancing collaborative working and listening skills with the ability to promote Age International’s agenda. (A I) 
•    Ability to represent Age International with senior-level external contacts. (I) 
•    Ability to deal with situations that require a high level of tact and diplomacy. (I) 
•    Excellent written and oral communications, matching tone and style to different audiences and occasions. (A I TP) 
•    Ability to attend events related to areas of focus, in the UK and very occasionally to travel internationally. (I) 

Personal attributes 
•    Fully supportive of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. (I)