Job Title: External Affairs and Policy Manager (Skills) Hours: Full Time, 36 hours per week Job Status: 12 month fixed term contract (with the possibility of extension). Location: Home-based, with some travel within England Salary: £52,575.15 Closing Date: 11.59pm, Sunday 15 June 2025. Interview Date(s): like to be in the week commencing 23 June 2025. Skills for Care the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future. Find out more by taking a look at . Skills for Care is recruiting an External Affairs and Policy Manager (Skills) to ensure we''re actively involved in skills policy and associated reform - to the benefit of the adult social care workforce. Reporting to the Head of External Affairs and Policy and working closely with our workforce skills team, the successful candidate will help the organisation to understand and influence skills policy - developing policy positions and advancing them through public affairs activities, supporting colleagues across the organisation to align workforce activities and initiatives with relevant changes within the skills landscape, and ensuring that the adult social care workforce is adequately represented and valued within the shaping and implementation of skills policy. You''ll be responsible for owning and dev