Policy & Public Affairs Manager

We’re Anthony Nolan and we save the lives of people with blood cancer who need a stem cell transplant.

We’re unique. Thanks to the incredible donors on our register, our pioneering research and our passionate fundraisers, we give the chance of life to three people a day.

But we won’t stop there. We want to be there for everyone who needs a transplant; from finding a match, through every step of a patient’s transplant journey. And together we can reach the remarkable day when we can save the lives of everyone with blood cancer.

And now we want you to join our lifesaving team. We are looking for a passionate policy professional to help us drive forward our ambitious influencing agenda.

Title: Policy & Public Affairs Manager

Salary: £40,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 per week (standard Anthony Nolan working hours)

Location: Hybrid between home and head office in Hampstead, London

Anthony Nolan is an ambitious organisation with patients at our heart and a forward-looking influencing agenda. We are already successfully influencing on behalf of stem cell transplantation patients, ensuring that key decision-makers hear the voice of patients and pushing for change that will improve patients’ lives.

Now we’re taking our influencing work to the next level by:

• Developing our role as a facilitator between the healthcare community, patients, the NHS, Government and industry
• Working more closely with patients, families, donors and the clinical community to ensure our work reflects what is happening on the ground and lived experience
• Using the insight and evidence generated by our patient services and research teams and developing our own policy research to help strengthen our evidence base
• Testing innovative approaches, including new partnerships and piloting ideas in hospitals
• Broadening our expertise to influence in new areas that impact patients’ lives such as the development and application of new treatments

We’re looking for a passionate and creative policy professional to join our Policy & Public Affairs team to help implement our influencing strategy. This is a great opportunity to join a dedicated and friendly team working on a broad range of policy issues.

You will have a particular focus on helping us expand our influence in advanced cell and gene therapies. You will lead our work on medicines appraisals with NICE, NHS England and other regulators, and will play a key role in our work to shape and improve funding, infrastructure, data, regulation, patient involvement and equity in the research and clinical adoption of cell and gene therapies.

This role gives the opportunity to help shape our response to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic; work with senior stakeholders in the NHS, research and charity sector and get into the detail of some of the most interesting policy areas facing healthcare in the UK.

You’ll have experience of working in a relevant policy, political or campaigns role, and from within the health sector – ideally with experience in NICE methods, specialised commissioning, and best practice in research policy.

You’ll have great inter-personal skills, experience supporting senior leaders and building strong relationships. We’re looking for someone with excellent knowledge of policy-making and political processes, the ability to pick up complex policy areas easily and develop creative ideas to help raise our profile with influencing audiences.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive salary
• 27 days annual leave, pension scheme, childcare vouchers, access to counselling via a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme
• A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop
• Life Assurance of four times annual salary
• Travel season ticket loan, Cycle to work Scheme
• And more! (full list of benefits available on our website)

Please check out the job description here, as well as our FAQs & Additional Info page to read about our benefits, values and recruitment policy.

Release your remarkable, join our team and give someone a chance of life.

Anthony Nolan is committed to equal opportunities & a living wage accredited employer

All applicants must be able to demonstrate the right to work in the UK.