External Affairs Advisor

External Affairs Advisor
Walsall, West Midlands    
Circa £24,000
Permanent, Full time (37 hours per week)

We are looking for a ‘newshound’ - someone to pro-actively monitor our key stakeholders and external operating environment to gather intelligence relevant to whg and keep senior managers well briefed on these issues. Is this you?

We are one of the West Midlands' leading and most successful providers of high quality homes. Owning and managing around 20,000 properties across Walsall, we provide affordable, good quality homes and community-based services to the local community.

As External Affairs Advisor, you will be an essential part of our new Strategy and External Affairs Team, which has been established to deliver a step change in our approach to external affairs. You will play a key supporting role in delivering an intelligent and strategic approach to external affairs, ensuring that we deliver on our strategic aims, grow through merger or acquisition and tailor our message to the right audience for maximum impact.

We would love to hear from you if you have a positive, confident attitude, an inquisitive approach, excel at building and maintaining professional relationships and possess well developed networking and influencing skills.

In return we ensure our colleagues receive a competitive salary and a great benefits package including 27 days annual leave, an option of pension schemes, health cash plan, and child care vouchers.

whg is committed to safer recruitment and to the protection and safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults and will conduct appropriate background checks where necessary.
Early applications are encouraged as often we experience a high volume of interest for posts. We will review applications on a daily basis and once we have received sufficient applications we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date.