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Rolling recruitment
Hybrid: Home and Westminster, London office
Full time, permanent role
Salary £50,000 to £55,000 DOE
We’re looking for a strategic thinker with a passion for public service to join us as a Media and Campaigns Manager. This role is ideal for someone with a proven track record in campaign management, media relations, and delivering impactful communications. You’ll bring a results driven mindset, identifying long term opportunities to drive positive change for people on the lowest incomes.
You’ll be a smart communicator who understands the power of narrative and message testing. Whether you come from policy advocacy, research or campaigning you’ll thrive on strategic communications that blend data and creativity to influence key decision makers. You’ll lead on brand awareness and media profile, crafting messages that resonate with diverse audiences, from policymakers and journalists to end users.
Working closely with the Chief Marketing Officer and occasionally the Founder and Managing Director, you’ll lead campaigns and use both traditional and digital marketing techniques to amplify our work. Your expertise in public affairs and media outreach will shape how we engage with influencers, customers, and critical sectors. You’ll craft and test messages that land with different audiences, engaging stakeholders at all levels.
As part of a small but dynamic marketing team, you’ll support the growth of our activities and impact. Your ability to build relationships quickly and influence at senior levels will be key to driving success across campaigns and aligning messaging with strategic goals.
See the job description for full details.
The position is offered as a permanent contract subject to a six month probationary period
How to apply
Please send your CV with a cover letter that clearly outlines your suitability and your interest in the post to jobs@staging-7278-policyinpracticeuk.wpcomstaging.com as soon as possible. The role will close when filled.
Rolling recruitment
Hybrid: Home and Westminster, London office
Full time, permanent role
Salary starting £38,000+ DOE
We’re looking for a highly capable, motivated and public service orientated Client Services Manager, with experience working in the public sector or with a proven track record in a similar or related sector. We need someone who has the passion and drive to make a significant contribution to our continued growth and to the lives of people on the lowest incomes.
You will report directly to the Service Manager of Client Services as a core member of our expanding Growth team. You’ll own the client management role from start to finish, ensuring that we deliver excellent services to our clients.
You will operate at various levels within our client base and must therefore be able to influence at the highest level and build senior relationships quickly. You will work alongside our vibrant team of social policy experts, software technicians and data analysts to provide outstanding service and product delivery, leaving clients delighted.
Your main focus will be to promote our consultancy and software products to contribute to the sales and renewal targets. You will build relationships with decision makers, deliver and oversee the successful use of our LIFT platform, ensuring our clients are able to turn insight into impact.
You’ll be recognised as a trusted advisor by our clients and your work will deepen our relationships with clients and secure repeat business with identifiable opportunities in local and central government.
See the job description for full details.
The position is offered as a permanent contract subject to a six month probationary period
How to apply
Please send your CV with a cover letter that clearly outlines your suitability and your interest in the post to jobs@staging-7278-policyinpracticeuk.wpcomstaging.com as soon as possible. The role will close when filled.
Rolling recruitment
Hybrid: Home and Westminster, London office
Full time, permanent role
Salary starting £35,000 to £50,000 DOE
We’re expanding our technology team and looking for engineers who believe in the power of data and technology to drive real change.
As a product focused engineer, you’ll work across our entire product range, from calculators to analytics services, helping thousands of people every day. You’ll play a key role in scaling our tech, tackling new datasets, and reaching new markets, all while ensuring security and performance.
Our engineering team takes ownership of code quality, workflow efficiency, and service reliability, critical to delivering on our mission. You’ll collaborate with colleagues at all levels across the organisation, working on a diverse range of projects, including:
- Being an active part of the development team, and helping team members work well with each other and the rest of the company
Getting involved in a range of activities, including front end, back end, testing, continuous integration and deployment, infrastructure as code and security testing - Investing in and improving team skills and practices through co-mentoring, pairing, code review and leading by example
- Communication, stakeholder management and relationship building to craft a well-gelled engineering team that’s known as a trusted partner for marketing, sales and policy and operations and is an integral part of the business
- Shaping the company’s thinking on software, technology, architecture and how to build systems that work for us, for our customers and our users over the long run
- Attracting and helping to hire new team members as the business grows
- Co-ordinating development through internal relationships with product management, compliance and operational staff
- Managing external technical relationships with eg pentesters, infrastructure specialists, accessibility testers and contractors
Contributing to technical discussion and scoping of work internally and with clients - Ensuring the security of data entrusted to the organisation, minimising the risk of security breach, potential data loss or downtime, and engaging in post mortems and follow up when things do go wrong (or right)
Your work at Policy in Practice will place you at the forefront of technology in the government space. We are creating new approaches to the formation and implementation of policy by putting the person first, using data.
To support this vision will require energy, enthusiasm, ability and ambition. You will be keen to develop the team’s skills across the full stack and excited by the potential for improving people’s lives.
See the job description for full details.
The position is offered as a permanent contract subject to a six month probationary period
How to apply
Please send your CV with a cover letter that clearly outlines your suitability and your interest in the post to jobs@staging-7278-policyinpracticeuk.wpcomstaging.com as soon as possible. The role will close when filled.
Rolling recruitment
Hybrid: Home and Westminster, London office
Full time, permanent role
Salary starting £55,000 to £65,000 DOE
We’re growing our technology team and looking for a Senior Software Engineer who believes in that data and technology can empower people and change lives. This role offers the chance to shape both our engineering culture and the future of a mission driven company while developing your skills.
We’re looking for someone to lead and support our engineering team, taking responsibility for new development work, improving how we operate, and updating our existing technology. If you’re experienced, impact driven, and looking for a role where you can take the lead, we’d love to hear from you.
The role will involve a diverse range of activities, including:
- Working as a full stack developer, including front end, back end, CICD, IaC and security, from maintenance and bug fixes to design and release of new features
- Driving the development team, growing junior team members, and helping the team as a whole work well with each other and the rest of the company
- Investing in and improving team skills and practices through co-mentoring, pairing, code review and leading by example
- Communication, stakeholder management and relationship building to support an engineering team that’s known as a trusted partner for marketing, sales, policy & operations and is an integral part of the business
- Shaping the company’s thinking on software, technology, architecture and how to build systems that work for us, for our customers and our users over the long run
- Co-ordinating development through internal relationships with product management, compliance and operational staff
- Managing external technical relationships with eg pen testers, infrastructure specialists, accessibility testers and contractors
- Contributing to technical discussions and scoping of work internally and with clients
- Ensuring the security of data entrusted to the organisation, minimising the risk of security breach, potential data loss or downtime, and engaging in post mortems and follow up when things do go wrong (or right)
Your work at Policy in Practice will place you at the forefront of technology in the government space. You will be keen to develop the team’s skills across the full stack and excited by the potential for improving people’s lives. This will be a challenging role; you will be hands on, unafraid of getting stuck in and focused on great results.
See the job description for full details.
The position is offered as a permanent contract subject to a six month probationary period
How to apply
Please send your CV with a cover letter that clearly outlines your suitability and your interest in the post to jobs@staging-7278-policyinpracticeuk.wpcomstaging.com as soon as possible. The role will close when filled.
Join our talent pool
We’re always looking for people who are hungry to drive change and make a difference. The compelling work we do, together with the benefits we give and the career prospects we offer, make Policy in Practice a great place to work for those recently leaving education and those with more experience.
We’re here to help people and we know that starts with you. If you can help us reach the next level of social impact we want to hear from you. Whether you’re passionate about policy, technology, communicating or sales, or you have experience in delivering frontline government services, we’ll invest in you while you grow the range and depth of your skills and experience.
If you are currently in a permanent role or contract but want to be considered for future roles please send your CV and cover letter to join our talent pool. We’re growing fast and are keen to speak to you if you’re looking for a new role, either now or in the future.
By default our roles are hybrid based, at home and at our lovely head office in Westminster. Remote working is also possible. Unless otherwise stated, roles are full-time and permanent.
How to apply
Please send your CV with a cover letter that clearly outlines your suitability and your field of interest to jobs@staging-7278-policyinpracticeuk.wpcomstaging.com. In the subject line of your email please enter Talent pool application.
Make a change for good. Join our team
Based in the heart of Westminster, our nimble size and impressive growth mean real opportunities for you to build your career in a friendly and supportive environment. Policy in Practice can give you autonomy to lead our work, immediate recognition of your efforts and the opportunity for rapid progression. With us, you’ll take part in a wide variety of work. From developing digital tools and communicating with impact to contributing to national policy debates and meeting MPs, at Policy in Practice you’ll be supported to follow your interests.
We thrive because our team has a wide variety of backgrounds.
A passion for tackling poverty, helping people and supporting those on the frontline is most highly valued. You can directly help to better serve the communities we work with.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer.
- Hybrid office / home-based working
- A close-knit, supportive team environment
- Lovely office in prime Westminster location
- Opportunities for flexible working arrangements
- Opportunities to attend industry conferences, travel and training events
- Opportunities to grow your profile by speaking on behalf of the company
- Great Christmas parties and away days, regular in-person social events
Come and join us if you’re ready to challenge yourself and make a positive difference in society. Our fun, friendly and diverse team is waiting for you.
What’s it like to work at Policy in Practice?
“There are a lot of client-facing opportunities, as a technical person, to be right in front of customers to make sure that the product that we’re building is meeting their needs. It’s always great when you hear customers share their stories of how they’ve used our tools to effectively target support to residents.
“I was passionate about making an impact and I think if you have those two things, for a technical role here at Policy in Practice, that’s more than enough.”
Terrin Mathew, Technical Data Analyst
“It’s not just crunching numbers, it’s thinking about that in context. We’re always chatting to clients or people that are using our free benefit calculator and we are having to discuss the policy issues behind the data. There have been so many opportunities. I’ve been on TV talking about the British welfare system and policy, meeting clients as well as improving my own data analysis skills.”
Louise Murphy, Senior Policy and Operations Analyst
“I set up Policy in Practice to change how policy is communicated to people. If it’s clear and simple, you put power in the hands of the citizen so they can make the decisions that are right for them. It is about making a fundamental difference on the front line.”
Deven Ghelani, Director and Founder