The Right Ethos - Specialist External Affairs Recruitment

A productivity-focused charity is seeking volunteers for an advisory board role, helping small and medium-sized enterprises improve their leadership capabilities. As a volunteer, you will offer support to business leaders over a one-year commitment, enhancing your leadership skills and professional network in a non-executive director (NED) style environment. This role provides a unique opportunity to contribute positively to communities across the UK.

Overview Looking for a unique business challenge that puts your leadership skills to the test while gaining non-executive (NED) board-style experience? Be the Business is looking for confident senior leaders and aspiring non-execs willing to contribute to a volunteer programme designed to help SMEs tackle the most pressing business problems and improve their leadership capabilities. Be the Business is an independent charity that inspires greater productivity, by connecting small business leaders to the expertise needed to answer today's challenges. As a volunteer you will make a difference to communities across the UK. By helping small and medium-sized businesses to improve their productivity, we will transform the UK's productivity, raise the value of businesses across the country, safeguard jobs and improve standards of living. Small business leaders on our new pilot - The Productivity Programme - receive non-executive style support from volunteer advisory board members enabling them to benefit from an advisory board of their own. Responsibilities As a volunteer advisory board member, you'll work collaboratively with your fellow board members to support two different business leaders to unlock the potential of their respective businesses. We ask you to commit to 12 hours over one year. Working in two 6 month terms, you and your board colleagues will meet with each business leader, online, four times providing effective questioning, insight, and support. In addition, one of the board members will have the opportunity to provide two additional one-on-one sessions with the business leader to provide extra support. You will be supported by a dedicated board administrator who will provide all the support you need for scheduling, pre-reading, sharing documents and taking actions. What's in it for you? You'll have the opportunity to demonstrate your skills as a senior leader and build your CV in a non-executive director (NED) style environment. You'll grow your professional network and enhance your skills and knowledge of sectors and business challenges that you may not have previously been exposed to. In recent feedback from current volunteers, benefits of supporting Be the Business programmes include: Improved knowledge and understanding of different industries, sectors and SME needs Improved professional skills A feeling of having made a positive contribution You'll also have access to the Be the Business volunteer offer, including our deep dives into industry insights and research, as well as networking, skills development and learning events held throughout the year. Evidence from Be the Business suggests that by finding and maintaining an annual one per cent improvement over a five year period, an average SME employer (1-249 employees) with a turnover of £1.3m, would increase their turnover by over £65,000.

As Head of Media and Public Affairs you will lead, plan, develop and implement effective media and public affairs strategies to actively promote the RCPCH and its priorities for maximum influence and impact. The Head of Media and Public Affairs is an important leadership role at the College. You will work closely with journalists and media organisations to champion the College in the media as well as securing political support for our policy messages, through stakeholder relationships within the UK Government, Whitehall and the Westminster Parliament. Reporting to the Associate Director of Policy & External Affairs, you will manage, direct and motivate the team to successfully achieve performance goals. You will play a pivotal role in driving the College's Westminster public affairs work to secure our advocacy goals and you will also manage the out-of-hours media rota, being flexible to be on-call to media as required. You will also take responsibility for preparing and monitoring the Media and Public Affairs team budget, ensuring that all operational expenditure is value for money. Degree educated or with relevant professional experience you will have demonstrable experience of developing and implementing proactive media and public affairs strategies and a strong track record in leading, planning, implementing and evaluating integrated communications strategies. With proven leadership and performance management skills, you should also have a background of working with and influencing senior managers and have proven stakeholder management skills, being able to develop and nurture high level contacts in media and government. Experience of briefing senior staff to act as spokespeople through the media and in direct engagement with political stakeholders is essential. Direct experience of working within an organisation that delivers health or children's services would be desirable.