Parliamentary Advocacy Officer TB

Salary: £32,142

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week

Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays. Staff additionally get a day off on their birthday and our office is closed between Christmas and New Year.

Pension: Employee contributions to pension are matched 1:1 by Results up to a maximum of 5% of gross salary.

Benefits: Cycle scheme, interest free travel card loan and Employee Access Programme

Line Manager: Parliamentary Advocacy Manager

Location: Results UK works hybridly with staff coming into the office 2 days a week. Other working patterns are possible if agreed with your line manager. Our office is in The Chandlery, Unit 702, 50 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7QY.

Starting date: This role is available from 1st February 2025.

About Results UK

Results mission is to work with others to create the public and political will to end poverty, by enabling people to exercise their personal and political power for change.

Internationally, we work with Results organisations around the world, and in health we also work with partners in India, Kenya, Zambia and elsewhere through the international ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership. Results UK believes the building blocks of the end of poverty can be most simply articulated as health, education, economic opportunities, and citizen voice . These are the things that all people, wherever they live, need and have a right to.

Within these areas, we prioritise a small number of specific issues where we can have the most influence to achieve much needed development progress. Across all our issues, our aims are to mobilise resources, change policy, and create the public and political will that will bring about change.

Job Details

In 2024, someone dies of Tuberculosis (TB) every 20 seconds. TB is the world s deadliest infectious disease and yet very few people know it still exists. Worse still, it is entirely treatable and curable, yet each year 1.5 million people die of TB. The world s failure to adequately address TB and other diseases of poverty is due in large part to a lack of political will.

The Parliamentary Advocacy Officer will lead the TB portfolio within the Parliamentary Advocacy Team, working alongside a Policy Officer to deliver meaningful and impactful advocacy to UK politicians and other key stakeholders to end the TB epidemic. Reporting to the Parliamentary Advocacy Manager, the post-holder will also support the wider work of the Parliamentary Team on a cross-cutting approach to parliamentary advocacy.

The Parliamentary Officer will provide the Secretariat for Parliament s All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Tuberculosis, which works primarily through the UK parliament to push the government to improve its policies on TB and devote more resources to tackling the epidemic. The post-holder will also assume a key role in the UK Academics and Professionals Against TB (UKAPTB) network - an advocacy group of UK-based doctors, nurses, researchers and others working to eradicate TB.

Key responsibilities

Parliamentary advocacy

• Working with the Head of Parliamentary Advocacy and others in the organisation to develop and implement a high impact and politically astute advocacy strategy for tuberculosis.
• Contribute to the development of Results overarching parliamentary advocacy strategy, working closely with the Head of Parliamentary Advocacy and other members of the team, aiming to identify, educate, and ask for action while supporting Parliamentarians to take action that will lead to meeting our goals and objectives.
• Lead on the parliamentary work on tuberculosis for Results UK, by building and strengthening relationships with MPs and Peers that result in them championing the end of poverty, specifically in taking action on tuberculosis, and building support for research and development around tuberculosis.

• Provide the secretariat function to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Tuberculosis. The APPG secretariat/coordinator function includes guiding the Group s work programme and activities, arranging meetings and events, corresponding with the APPG Officers and Members, briefing MPs and Peers to ask questions or speak in parliamentary debates and representing the Group externally, for example with the Global Fund, the Stop TB Partnership and others.
• Lead the planning, delivery and evaluation of Parliamentary Delegations to implementing countries and advocacy tours to the UK, working with the relevant Policy Advocacy Officer and others in the Parliamentary Team.
• Work closely with the Grassroots Advocacy Team to ensure parliamentary and grassroots campaigning activity is coordinated and the greatest impact is achieved between the relationships our grassroots campaigners build with their local MPs, and the work led from the office to support MPs in Parliament.
• Ensure our parliamentary advocacy and relationships always remain non-partisan and cross-party, in line with our charitable aims and objectives.

Partners and coalitions

• Liaise with other global Results organisations, the ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership Secretariat and other ACTION partners to coordinate our parliamentary advocacy at a global level.
• Work closely with civil society and other partner organisations and allies in the UK to coordinate parliamentary advocacy in the UK.
• Represent Results UK in global coalitions and consortia relevant to your lead issue area, such as the Global Fund CSO Working Group, as agreed with the Head of Parliamentary Advocacy.
• Identify and develop new partnerships in line with our new strategy and the focus on equity.

Communications and media

• Where capacity allows, identify media opportunities and support media activity (including traditional and social media) related to nutrition.
• Contribute content to Results UK s website, blog and social media to help achieve our organisational objectives and strengthen our brand presence.
• Publicise the APPG's activities, primarily through its website and twitter account.
• Represent Results at external meetings and events in relation to advocacy around tuberculosis.

Organisational Development

• Carry out effective monitoring, evaluation and learning of your work, recording activity and outcomes that enables Results UK to measure its success, in addition to measuring the impact of your activities towards these outcomes.
• Be a key part of Results UK s organisational development by participating in strategic discussions, evaluations, sharing your experience and ideas, and working flexibly to support other staff as required.
• Actively develop and support funding ideas to help appropriately expand Results UK s portfolio in close collaboration with the Head of Parliamentary Advocacy and the Operations team.
• Build new and strengthen existing relationships with donors, external partners, and our advocacy targets.
• Together with the Senior Policy Advocacy Officer for Tuberculosis, be responsible for regular reporting to grant funders.
• Be flexible and undertake other tasks as required.

Person specification

This role is ideal for someone with public affairs or political advocacy experience, preferably in the UK, who understands the way that political decisions impact global poverty and wants to influence these decisions. A strong understanding of and passion for global health issues, particularly those that relate infectious diseases. Equally important is a proven ability to quickly gain an understanding of a complex new area and translate it into succinct, clear, achievable recommendations.

This post will provide excellent opportunities for leading parliamentary advocacy to deliver real change in funding and policy outcomes on tuberculosis and other issues; for building and deploying a strong understanding of key international development issues; and experience of working directly with UK parliamentarians and other actors across the international development sector.

Essential criteria

• At least one year of experience in a substantial parliamentary or public affairs role with demonstrable success in managing relationships with parliamentarians from different parties.
• Understanding of the UK Parliament (including the roles of MPs and Peers; the range of activity parliamentarians can undertake in parliament to influence Government policy; the role of APPGs; Select Committees).
• A good understanding of international development issues and in particular, the need for approaches based in equity and partnership.
• An ability to learn quickly about new development issues and clearly convey this information to others.
• An ability to write clearly and succinctly, for a range of audiences, from lengthy formal submissions to short articles or blogs, including experience of media work;
• Experience in representing organisations, networking, and working in coalitions.
• Excellent English writing skills with an ability to write clearly and succinctly for a range of audiences.

• Strong interpersonal skills, able to build rapport with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
• Good understanding of carrying out effective Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL), for advocacy work.

Desirable

• Experience working in international development.
• Experience of working with campaigners and advocates.
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