External Affairs Manager, NACCOM

Guardian Jobs; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Guardian Jobs seeks an External Affairs Manager for NACCOM to lead impactful advocacy against migrant homelessness. This role involves strategic communication and project management, requiring a dynamic advocate passionate about social justice and familiar with campaigning context. Opportunities for remote work complement a flexible schedule.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Wellbeing time and practice

Calm App subscription

Qualifications

• Dynamic and collaborative advocate passionate about social justice.
• Strong aptitude for campaigns and communications alongside policy.
• Experience in advocacy roles preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the External Affairs team and ensure campaign effectiveness.
• Manage strategic communications and advocacy alignment.
• Represent NACCOM in high-level meetings and coalitions.

Skills

Communications

Advocacy

Campaign Management

Job description

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NACCOM is recruiting a new permanent External Affairs Manager to lead the work of our small but highly impactful External Affairs team.

About the role:

NACCOM is a national network of over 135 frontline organisations and charities across the UK, working together to end destitution amongst people seeking asylum, refugees and other migrants who aren’t able to access public funds because of their immigration status.

We do this by campaigning collectively for a fairer, more humane immigration system that doesn’t leave people destitute, and by sharing our learning, innovation, and resources across our membership to increase the level of accommodation provision and support the network is able to provide.

Join our charity at a pivotal moment. As our External Affairs Manager, you’ll sit at the heart of a high-performing, fully remote team, ensuring that migrant homelessness and destitution is high on the agenda. You will lead and mentor a talented External Affairs team, amplifying NACCOM’s voice as the UK’s expert voice on how the asylum and immigration system drives homelessness and destitution.

With our 20th-anniversary milestone and a bold new organisational strategy on the horizon, you’ll seize fresh opportunities to deepen our influence. Working hand-in-hand with frontline members, people with lived experience, and high-profile partners, you will deliver sharp, evidence-led campaigns and projects that put migrant homelessness at the top of policy and media agendas.

A strong aptitude for communications and campaigns, and an understanding of how that works alongside policy and research to underpin the external affairs function, is vital.

This role is for a dynamic, collaborative advocate who is passionate about social justice. If you’re ready to turn insight into impact — shaping narratives, forging alliances, and driving systemic change—we’d love to welcome you to NACCOM.

Key role information:

Hours: Full-Time (35 hours) or Part-Time (28 hours) per week

Salary: Starting salary £43,000 annual FTE (plus £4,000 London Weighting if applicable)

Leave: 25 days per annum plus Bank Holidays (England and Wales) pro rata plus additional concessionary days off between Christmas and New Year

Pension: NACCOM will contribute 6% of your gross salary

Additional benefits: flexible working hours, wellbeing time, wellbeing practice and Calm App.

Contract: Permanent

Location: Home-based plus occasional travel in the UK (approx 5 days per month). Opportunity to work part-time in a members’ office or a co-working space.

Responsible to: Director

Job purpose:

The External Affairs Manager will work closely with the Director and provide vital support to NACCOM and its members by:

• Ensuring the strategic planning, management and alignment of communications, policy, research, campaigns, and advocacy as part of the External Affairs function at NACCOM.
• Ensuring NACCOM’s external affairs functions feed from and into our network development work and our Community Ambassador / Research programme
• Growing and safeguarding NACCOM’s brand identity, integrity and strategic positioning across all our external channels, networks and audiences.
• Line-managing and supporting the Policy and Research Co-ordinator, Community Research Facilitator and part-time Communications Co-ordinator (currently covered by a freelancer) as well as managing any external consultants NACCOM works with across the External Affairs function.
• Along with the Director, acting as spokesperson for NACCOM.
• Overseeing the spend against budget for External Affairs-related work.
• Representing NACCOM at key, high-level meetings and coalitions, including with journalists, decision-makers and partners.
• Actively supporting a culture of collaboration, support and mutual respect at NACCOM and across the membership network.
  
  
  

For more information about the role, including person specification, please download the Job Description.

How to apply:

• Please read the Job Description carefully.
• To apply please complete NACCOM’s Job Application Form and Equality and Diversity Form.
• Send both forms to [e-mail] before the specified closing date of Tuesday 8 July 2025, at 23.59.
• Please note we do not ask for CVs at application stage, but you will be asked to supply your CV if you are invited for interview. This is in order for us to anonymise applications for shortlisting to create a fairer process
• We’ll be really happy to talk to anyone who has questions about the role before you apply, you can email: [e-mail] to ask questions over email or arrange a call/Zoom.
  
  
  

Recruitment timescales:

• Tuesday 8 July 2025 at 23.59: Deadline for applications
• Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 July 2025: Stage one interviews held online as a Zoom call.
• Wednesday 30 July 2025: Stage two interviews with team, ideally in person but possibly online.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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