Task Description: Head of Coverage and Advocacy

Place: Head of Coverage and Advocacy
Location: Hybrid running, with as much as two days every week within the workplace in Rugby, Warwickshire.
Hours: Complete-time (35 hours every week)
Wage: 38,000-£42,000
Reviews to: Director of Communications

About Us

The Oral Well being Basis is a number one UK-based charity devoted to making improvements to oral well being and wellbeing international. With over 50 years of revel in, we ship impactful campaigns, supply training, and power adjustments that advertise higher oral well being.

Our technique specializes in empowering people and communities, bettering get right of entry to to assets via partnerships, and advocating for evidence-based insurance policies to scale back oral well being inequalities.

We search a dynamic and skilled Head of Coverage and Advocacy to enroll in our workforce. This thrilling position gives the chance to form our coverage messaging, broaden evidence-based coverage positions, improve our advocacy efforts, and make certain that our communications replicate our dedication to making improvements to oral well being for all.

Position Evaluation

As a key strategic voice inside the organisation, the Head of Coverage and Advocacy will form and ship the Oral Well being Basis’s strategy to influencing public coverage and riding advocacy. This contains growing transparent, evidence-based coverage positions and translating advanced problems into compelling narratives that encourage motion. The post-holder will paintings intently with senior management, exterior stakeholders, and the communications workforce to persuade public well being agendas and champion significant alternate in oral well being.

They’re going to be a powerful workforce participant that flourishes in a collaborative setting.  They must even be self-motivated and able to taking initiative when running independently.

Key Obligations

Coverage Building and Advocacy

• Expand and enforce coverage positions and advocacy methods that align with the Oral Well being Basis’s undertaking and targets.
• Observe and analyse coverage tendencies in oral well being, public well being, and similar fields, offering well timed updates and insights.
• Reply to coverage consultations, requires proof, and regulatory proposals, making sure the Oral Well being Basis’s voice is heard in key debates.
• Attend occasions and conferences to speak about and power ahead coverage issues, representing the Basis’s perspectives and priorities.
• Construct relationships with policymakers, executive departments, well being execs, and different stakeholders to persuade oral well being insurance policies.
• Constitute the Oral Well being Basis in coverage discussions, consultations, and occasions.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a key level of touch for exterior stakeholders, together with executive companies, NGOs, educational establishments, and trade companions.
• Construct coalitions and partnerships to beef up shared coverage targets and enlarge the Oral Well being Basis’s voice.
• Expand and improve relationships with MPs and policymakers to fortify parliamentary wisdom of oral well being problems and recommend for efficient answers.
• Formulate methods to mobilise exterior audiences to champion the Oral Well being Basis’s coverage messages and actively have interaction in advocacy efforts.

Campaigns and Advocacy Initiatives

• Lead policy-focused campaigns to lift consciousness of important oral well being problems, comparable to vitamin, inequalities, and get right of entry to to dental care.
• Assist the workforce create and ship new campaigns and initiatives with well timed political importance, making sure they align with the wider advocacy time table.
• Keep in touch key marketing campaign messages to attainable funders and companions to protected beef up and power affect.
• Make sure the Oral Well being Basis’s advocacy paintings is evidence-based, impactful, and measurable.

Strategic Communications

• Translate coverage positions into transparent, impactful, and persuasive communications for varied audiences, together with policymakers, media, and the general public.
• Expand complete subject briefs to equip media spokespeople and ambassadors with transparent and constant messaging on key problems.
• Help in fine quality copywriting and modifying for coverage briefs, studies, press releases, internet content material, social media, and advertising fabrics for coverage messages.

Tournament Reinforce

• Oversee communications and branding for key occasions, together with parliamentary engagements, roundtables, and different high-profile actions as wanted.

Inside Collaboration

• Collaborate with the communications workforce to align coverage messaging with wider organisational campaigns, comparable to Nationwide Smile Month and Mouth Most cancers Motion Month.
• Paintings intently with groups to make sure a joined-up strategy to coverage and communications.
• Reinforce groups internally in talking expectantly and persistently about strategic coverage and campaigning problems to their audiences.

Individual Specification

Very important

• Certified to stage degree with a number of years of post-graduate revel in in coverage building, advocacy, or public affairs, preferably inside the healthcare or charity sectors.
• Revel in running with policymakers, executive our bodies, and different stakeholders to persuade coverage.
• Wisdom of public well being problems, with a specific pastime in oral well being or similar spaces.
• Outstanding written and verbal conversation talents, being able to translate advanced coverage problems into out there content material.
• Confirmed skill to broaden and ship impactful campaigns that succeed in measurable results.
• Extremely organised with superb undertaking control talents and a spotlight to element.
• Talent to paintings collaboratively throughout groups and set up a couple of priorities.
• Self-motivated with a proactive way and the arrogance to paintings independently.
• Sturdy interpersonal talents and a team-oriented mindset, with a willingness to beef up colleagues and proportion experience.

Fascinating

• Wisdom of key oral well being problems, comparable to inequalities in care get right of entry to or systemic hyperlinks to oral well being.
• Revel in in media family members or public family members, specifically when it comes to coverage and advocacy.
• Revel in running in or with the charity sector.

What We Be offering

• The chance to make an actual distinction within the lives of people and communities.
• A supportive and inclusive running setting with a focal point on skilled building.
• Versatile and hybrid running preparations.
• Aggressive wage and advantages bundle.
• Alternatives to paintings on high-profile campaigns and collaborate with main mavens.

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To use, please put up your CV and a canopy letter detailing your suitability for the position by way of Blue The city’s web page by means of the nineteenth of Might, with interviews between the twenty first of Might and the seventh of June.

For a casual dialogue concerning the position, please name us on 01788 546 365.

The Oral Well being Basis is an equivalent alternative employer and welcomes packages from all people, without reference to their background.