NP - Senior Ministerial Visits and Events Manager to Secretary

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Home Office Ministerial and Events team is at the heart of delivering the Government’s Plan for Change.

Whether it is leading on our Safer Streets mission to tackle knife crime and violence against women and girls, the work to secure our borders or protect national security, we deliver visits and events that support Ministers to demonstrate the important impact of our policies.

We pride ourselves on delivering visits and events, domestically and internationally, which meet the highest of standards, are engaging and maximise the relationship that the Home Office has with stakeholders across the board. An exciting and rare chance to lead this high performing team is now available.

The post involves working closely with Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and their offices as well as policy and communications teams, frontline services, such as the police and Border Force, charities and third sector organisations - to identify ministerial visit and event opportunities to support communications plans and policy priorities.

The Senior Ministerial Visits and Events Manager to the Home Secretary post involves working closely with Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and their offices as well as policy and communications teams, frontline services, such as the police and Border Force, charities and third sector organisations - to identify ministerial visit and event opportunities to support communications plans and policy priorities.

As a Senior Ministerial Visits and Events Manager to the Home Secretary, you will be planning and delivering high quality private, public and media facing events, visits and overseas trips. The key purpose of the role is to ensure that these engagements deliver on the Home Secretary’s priorities and personal preferences, enhance HM Government (HMG) objectives and support positive media coverage.

This is a high profile, demanding and fast-paced role, with a large degree of autonomy. You will be responsible for working with policy, communications and external teams, to design and deliver visits, primarily for the Home Secretary.

We will be looking for someone who uses their initiative and is able to be a self-starter. You will need to be resourceful and able to think on your feet; managing risks, weighing up options and making recommendations to senior officials and Ministers that will deliver a high-quality service. You will need to be resilient and able to manage competing priorities, often working at pace to deliver visits at short notice.

You will also need to be familiar with the domestic political and media landscape and the Home Secretary’s priorities in order to ensure visit programs support objectives of HMG.

The team is a flexible resource, and the post-holder will be expected to support other colleagues during busy periods.

Reporting to the Head of Ministerial Visits & Events, the key responsibilities are:

• Plan, co-ordinate and lead on high quality strategic, media facing visits for Ministers that deliver on the Home Secretary’s priorities and personal preferences.
• Project manage, plan and deliver large-scale Home Office Ministerial events including speeches, receptions and summits, working with communications and policy colleagues across the department, as well as external partners.
• Work as part of a team and individually to identify, recce and advance venues ahead of Ministerial visits, in the UK and internationally, when required.
• Work closely with Ministers, Special Advisors, Private Office, communications and policy colleagues from within the Home Office and across government to deliver visits and events.
• Proactively build peer-to-peer and senior relationships, both within the department and with external partners, to ensure the successful delivery of Ministerial visits and events and to help support future visit opportunities.
• Work as part of a team, as well as individually, to proactively maintain the team’s planning, evaluation and business tools and ensure these are up to date and accurate.

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