Policy Manager
The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint a Policy Manager, to join the Policy team. Your key responsibilities in this role would be to ensure a focus on delivering the priorities of the Mayor to deliver for the West of England by:
We’re looking for a strategic professional who are passionate about policy and regional growth.
This is a critical time in our transformation and growth journey, and you’ll be pivotal in helping us achieve our ambitions by:
Leading the Policy input to the development of directorate plans, strategies, business cases and funding bids to ensure regional and Mayoral priorities are reflected and a single narrative flows through all that we do. This role will cover all policy areas.
Developing and owning strategic narrative on core areas of the work of the organisation-
Using evidence to develop policy proposals, working with service leads to identify priority actions, drawing on the overarching organisational strategies and evidence and analysis provided by the Economic Analysis Team to ensure effective targeting of activity.
What you’ll be doing
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Leading on the development of policy proposals on cross cutting issues, in support of the delivery of regional and Mayoral priorities, coordinating the input of colleagues.
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Enabling effective partner engagement, including maintaining oversight of government engagement within areas of responsibility, ensuring consistency and visibility.
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This role will cover all policy areas but have a particular area of focus of transport.
Why choose us?
This is an opportunity to make a real difference .
This is a fixed term maternity cover role for one year, ending in August 2027. We also have a permanent role available to apply for here.
Find out more
If this sounds like your next opportunity, please apply so you can tell us why you'd be a great fit. There’s more information for you in the job description.
There’s more role-related formation is in the job description, but if you have any questions for the recruitment team you can contact us on [email protected].
If you’d like to have an informal conversation about this opportunity with the manager who’s hiring, you can contact [email protected]
The closing date for this role is midnight on Thursday 27th August 2026.
The interviews are planned to be held on Wednesday 9th September 2026 at our offices at 70 Redcliff St, Bristol BS1 6AL, but please note the date may change.
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