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Policy and Advocacy Lead (Muslim Charity)

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Job closing on 01-Jan-1970

Negotiable

01-Jan-1970

Job Description

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Closing Date 01-Jan-1970
Interview/Start Date 01-Jan-1970
Experience Details PERSON SPECIFICATION: You will be passionate about driving positive cultural change in the Muslim led Voluntary and Community Sector by encouraging more productive engagement with public sector stakeholders. You will be agreeing to, and working in alignment with MCF’s ethical principles, mission areas, and strategic priorities. You will feel are energised by the prospect of becoming an expert within a small team, collaborating with a range of other skilled and talented colleagues within the sector. You will feel comfortable with upholding a high degree of confidentiality, as the role is privy to sensitive discussions and being in environments where you have access to confidential information. You will feel confident in fulfilling the key responsibilities listed in the sections below. Advocacy Capacity Building: • Directly communicating and interacting with Muslim-led Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations. • Effectively managing relationships with Muslim-led Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations. Proactively responding to requests for guidance and/or support on policy and advocacy related matters. • Drafting briefings, primers, training materials and other capacity building materials to enhance understanding of policy and advocacy amongst key stakeholders. Scheduling and hosting roundtables and other events. • Build and manage methods of two-way learning between British Muslim-led Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations and key public sector stakeholders. • Building relationships with associates and other contractors focusing on matters relevant to advocacy, campaigning, political activity, political processes, research, or any other matters. • Managing an advocacy capacity building programme. • Managing a budget and seeing to the delivery of its associated projects. • Representing MCF at public engagements hosted by Parliamentarians, Combined Authorities, Local Authorities, and other public sector organisations interacting directly with Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations. • Building relationships with key stakeholders at different levels of public sector organisations. Broader advocacy, political engagement and external influencing: • Support the CEO and the rest of the MCF team by developing policy reform suggestions supported by appropriate forms of evidence. • Support activities to maintain MCF as a thought-leader and trusted source of guidance for policy and advocacy matters relevant to the British Muslim-led Voluntary and Community Sector. • Identify opportunities to further develop MCF’s policy and advocacy strategy to fulfil MCF’s mission areas and strategic priorities as an infrastructure organisation. • Coordinate activities to deliver outputs aligned with MCF’s policy and advocacy strategy. • Monitor developments from the public and other sectors relevant to British Muslim-led Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations reported in the media, and draft appropriate responses. • Provide guidance to MCF members and other organisations on navigating policy issues. • Host and participate in MCF member roundtables, working groups and other events to learn more about their policy priorities and provide guidance where relevant. • Coordinate research projects to develop bodies of evidence on matters relating to the Muslim-led Voluntary and Community Sector. • Support the delivery of MCF’s advocacy campaigns and associated campaign activities. Commission external research and analysis to gather evidence to support MCF’s campaigns. • Represent MCF in media engagement opportunities or requests for information from media stakeholders. • Represent MCF at a range of events and other external engagements. All applicants who feel that they possess the necessary skills and experience to be able to fulfil the responsibilities outlined above should review the criteria for selection below.
Salary ££35,000 – £37,500 Per Annum
Language: English
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