Public Affairs and Resources Manager - Northern Ireland

About Us

Carers NI is Northern Ireland’s leading charity advocating for unpaid carers, striving to create meaningful change through policy, public affairs, and campaigning. Our mission is to improve the lives of carers by providing vital support, including advice services, peer support, educational events, and our newly launched Together We Care programme. We work closely with political leaders, government bodies, and other stakeholders to ensure carers' voices are heard and their needs are met.

 About the Role 

As the Public Affairs and Resources Manager for Northern Ireland, you will lead policy development and public affairs function including leading on strategy and implementation representing Carers NI’s interests to policymakers and the media. You will also manage our new Together We Care programme and oversee a team, ensuring impactful advocacy, building partnerships, and effectively managing resources to advance support for unpaid carers. Remote and flexible working. There will be some travel throughout Northern Ireland and within the UK, involving occasional overnight stays and weekend work.

 About You

You are a dynamic and experienced leader with a strong understanding of Northern Ireland’s political landscape. You have a track record in policy, public affairs, and media relations, along with experience managing projects and teams. Your excellent communication, leadership, and strategic planning skills will empower you to drive forward Carers NI’s mission, advocating for carers and ensuring their voices are heard.

Diversity and Inclusion

Carers UK is committed to becoming a diverse and truly inclusive organisation. We strive to create a workplace where our colleagues and volunteers can truly be themselves and feel like they belong and constantly seek to ensure all voices are heard.

To embrace this culture of diversity, our employee and volunteer recruitment should reflect our stakeholders and the society that we serve and support, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, disabilities or religious practices. We value individual diversity and are actively building diverse teams here at Carers UK and value our colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds.

As a membership charity for carers, we particularly seek employees and volunteers with a real understanding of the issues faced by carers. Reasonable adjustments can be made to the process and role dependent on the needs of the applicant.

How to Apply

Please visit our recruitment page for a full job description and information on how to apply: 

https://www.carersuk.org/about-us/working-for-carers-uk/vacancies/public-affairs-and-resources-manager-northern-ireland/

Please send in your application as soon as possible. We look forward to receiving your application. Carers UK anonymises all applications prior to shortlisting.

The closing date is Wednesday 18 June, 5pm

In person interviews will be held on the 25 and 26 June.

Carers UK may carry out online and social media checks before a formal offer is made.