About the role

ID: 1817 Insight and Influencing Manager
Service: Insight and Influencing

Salary:
- £32,635 - £36,158 FTE per annum (£19,581.00 - £21,694.80 per annum, pro rata for part time, 22.2 hours per week)
- Additionally, £480 home-based allowance pro rata per annum

Location: Homebased

Hours: Part-time (22.2 hours per week)

We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract: Permanent

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

Family Action is a complex organisation, providing services across an increasingly diverse range of policy and funding areas. This role will support the Head of Insight and Influencing to represent Family Action across policy and funding areas, building and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders. It will gather and act upon insights, providing intelligence and feedback to support planning and delivery of influencing activity. The role holder will understand government policy, disseminate this information and consider how this practically affects Family Action regarding income generation and operational service design and delivery. As we are a small team, the role holder will also be responsible for the administration of insight and influencing activity.

Main Responsibilities:
With direction from the Head of Insight and Influencing monitor, analyse and engage with the policy landscape, parliamentary proceedings and sector activity relevant to Family Action’s influencing priorities across central and local government. Provide updates on this activity in an easily digestible format to Family Action staff at various levels and roles to support insight and influencing opportunities and staff understanding.
Support the development of local and national influencing capability and capacity across Family Action staff, contributing to the sharing and learning from best practice through our Communities of Practice and our Influencing Connectors network.
Develop and maintain effective relationships with key external stakeholders to inform and shift policy thinking in support of families.
Monitor, update and review Insight and Influencing files and documents and the Insight and Influencing intranet site.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Previous work experience in UK policy, public affairs, influencing or other related topic, identifying and maximising opportunities within the political/external environment to influence change and working with politically and commercially sensitive contexts and information
• A logical and strategic thinker, able to anticipate emerging issues based on evidence and insight, assess level of importance and summarise this information for senior leaders
• Strong interpersonal skills – can work effectively across teams, building strong relationships and working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to achieve influencing objectives
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement of 30 working days plus bank holidays pro rata
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: 11.59pm on Sunday 5th July 2026
Interviews are scheduled to take place from 14th July virtually, with slots throughout the working day.
For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: Stacey.warren@family-action.org.uk

All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.