Creative Industries Policy Manager

The opportunity

University of the Arts London (UAL) is looking for an experienced policy and public affairs professional to join our expanding Policy and Advocacy team as a Creative Industries Policy Manager.

Based in the Social Purpose Lab, the Policy and Advocacy team seeks to position UAL as a thought leader and leading institution on Creative Industries policy. In this newly created role, you'll utilise your political awareness and policy/influencing skills to help shape the direction of UAL's policy and public affairs strategy and to influence agendas within the Creative Industries.

Working closely with key members of the Policy and Advocacy team, you'll develop the team's Creative Industries policy brief, managing key aspects of our policy priorities, including:

• Creative Industries and growth (including leading any work with the Government on the forthcoming industrial strategy and what this means for the creative industries)
• AI and the Creative Industries
• Skill gaps in the Creative Industries
• Green and future skills agendas
• The UK as a creative superpower

You'll also establish and develop the team's relationships with key external stakeholders (including MPs, Peers, Civil Servants and Special Advisers) and will assist senior staff and the wider academic community with their own engagement with policymakers.

About you

You'll need experience of working on public policy campaigns and of policy brief management.

In addition to this, you'll possess experience of supporting senior members of staff. This will include experience of formulating responses to government consultations, writing policy reports and briefings, horizon scanning and monitoring, and conducting successful meetings.

With sound political judgement, you'll demonstrate an excellent understanding of the UK political system and public policy environment in related fields, along with knowledge of the Creative Industries and policy and a wider understanding of higher education and the creative economy.

The ability to work with broad national and local networks in related policy fields is essential, along with the ability to communicate complex policy messages clearly and succinctly.

We are UAL

UAL offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities - UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We're made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world's creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We're ranked highly across the board. We're ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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Closing date: 18 th October 2024, 23:55.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn - a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.