27 days annual leave
Flexible working
Health cash plan

External Affairs Intern

Salary £18k per annum plus excellent benefits, including opportunity to gain an accredited qualification
Location Combination of homeworking and office based (Walsall, West Midlands)
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This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

Contract:  12 month placement, 37 hours per week

Closing Date: Sunday 10 July

Interview Date: to be arranged with shortlisted candidates

From tackling the housing crisis, to building safety to levelling up – housing is at the top of the political agenda. If you are interested in current affairs and policy development and looking to apply your skills in the real world then look no further.

We have a brilliant opportunity for a graduate starting out in their career to join our Strategy and Communications Team for a 12-month internship supporting our external affairs work.

You will be our ‘eyes and ears’, keeping on top of what’s going on in the housing, policy and political world. This is a varied role supporting our external affairs, stakeholder engagement work and providing support on a variety of projects, campaigns and events.

You’ll need to be a true team player - someone who can get stuck in and help with team-wide projects.

At whg we are committed to nurturing and developing our colleagues. As part of this 12-month placement we will work with the successful candidate to develop a personalised development programme, including opportunities to undertake accredited training and qualifications.

This is a rewarding, fun and varied role with a friendly, innovative and hardworking team – an ideal opportunity for a hard-working and enthusiastic individual looking to gain experience and develop their career in communications and external affairs.  

Main responsibilities include:

  • You will assist with telling our story, promoting our brand, and sharing the good work we do in transforming the lives of our customers and communities.
  • Provide political monitoring and intelligence gathering across national, regional, and local government, with a focus on policy issues most relevant to the housing sector
  • Provide research and information to support the development and delivery of key activities.
  • Develop biographical and policy briefings on key industry and policy developments for senior internal stakeholders, including conducting research to inform these documents
  • Assist the team with stakeholder management, including research, mapping and engagement strategies

We are looking for someone who has:

  • An interest in and good understanding of current affairs
  • Excellent literacy skills
  • A can-do mindset, engaging demeanour and team spirit
  • Willingness to learn and ability to pick up things quickly
  • Educated to degree level
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What’s in it for you?

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.  

 

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them. 

 

About us

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com

 

 

We are one of the Midlands’ leading and most successful providers of good quality
homes.

Our values help us to maintain a culture that helps us achieve our commitment of
supporting customers to lead happy and fulfilled lives. We want all of our people to
uphold our ambition; demonstrating the belief, enthusiasm and energy to deliver on
it. We want our colleagues to feel empowered to take the lead and to think creatively
and be passionate about their work.

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. Through the People Strategy we take every opportunity to embed our values to ensure that our colleagues give the best possible service to our customers, communities and each other.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, being dedicated to doing the right thing, and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable being themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

27 days annual leave

Flexible working

Health cash plan

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