United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Campaigns & Parliamentary Officer

Concern Worldwide are currently looking for an exceptional Parliamentary & Campaigns Officer to join the Policy and Campaigns team. Your role will be to coordinate Concern’s public campaigning and parliamentary engagement with MP’s as well as engaging in coalition campaigns. We are looking for somebody with a proven track record of delivering public campaigns on and offline as well as experience of parliamentary engagement, including knowledge of how Westminster and Whitehall operate.

Main duties & responsibilities:

Campaign Strategy & Coordination

• Work with the Head of Nutrition Advocacy, and Head of Humanitarian/Resilience Advocacy to identify campaigning and influencing opportunities in the UK political and public sphere.


• Work with the Policy & Campaigns team and digital team to plan and implement campaign projects, identifying new tactics and approaches to campaigning as needed.


• Increase the pool of Concern supporters willing to regularly take campaign action to support Concern. Maintain their engagement through the provision of regular updates and opportunities to take action.

Campaign Communications

• Produce or commission, and disseminate campaign materials for on and off line use. Liaise with agencies and freelancer designers as required.


• Write e-actions and use software to build e-actions for Concern supporters.


• Comply with internal data protection policy to when using and storing supporter data.


• Liaise with fundraising (IG), digital and data systems teams as required.


• Provide content for supporter materials, including the online content and newsletters.


• Work closely with policy, communications, digital and fundraising colleagues to ensure organisational alignment with campaigning and wider supporter engagement.

Coalition Engagement

• Manage day to day engagement with campaign coalitions, attend coalition meetings; identify key opportunities to collaborate with partners.

Parliamentary Engagement

• Represent Concern in all party parliamentary groups specific to hunger, resilience and nutrition. Identify opportunities for Concern to engage in their work.


• Develop 1:1 relationships with MP’s, researchers, advisors and other parliamentary officials across all political parties.


• Work with the events coordinator to lead on the organisation of parliamentary events including planning and logistics.


• Maintain up to date political knowledge and relationships, distributing communication assets to MP’s and their teams, and select committees as required.


• Oversee correspondence to parliamentary officials, maintain and update parliamentary contacts database and documentation.


• Produce materials to support parliamentary engagement, including briefings or infographics.

Learning & Evaluation

• Contribute to work that demonstrates the outcomes of campaigning and parliamentary engagement activities. Monitor and evaluate campaigns and parliamentary work.


• Share learning from Concern’s campaigns and parliamentary work, internally and externally as appropriate.

Intern & Cross Team Working

• Feed into cross organisational work to develop holistic supporter engagement and/or retention strategies, liaising with fundraising or external affairs as required.


• Contribute to coherent and sensitive communication strategies relating to hunger advocacy. Develop messages for active supporters and lead on their dissemination.


• Work with the wider P&C team to develop advocacy strategies and monitor advocacy progress against agreed objectives.

Person Specification

• Track record of parliamentary engagement, including knowledge of how Westminster and Whitehall operate.


• Track record of delivering public campaigns, on and offline.


• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), including experience of writing for social media.


• Strong project management skills.


• Excellent time management skills and the ability to work under pressure


• Ability to respond flexibly to changing priorities and to set and work to own deadlines.


• Proven ability to work independently.


• A desire to strengthen advocacy capacity within Concern


• Active commitment to promote diversity, equity and the interests of marginalised people.


• Educated to degree level

Person specification (desirable):

• Knowledge of international development issues.


• Experience of event management, preferably in parliament.


• Experience of supervising volunteers and/or interns as appropriate

How to apply:

Please send your CV and cover letter to ukhrenquiries@concern.net before closing date Friday 29th April at 9.00 am. Clearly indicate if you are applying for the campaigns and parliamentary role as a full time post, or if you are applying for either the campaigns or the parliamentary post on a part time basis indicating available hours.

All candidates who are short-listed for a interview will be notified via email after the application deadline

Candidates must be legally entitled to work in UK at the time of application.