We are seeking a highly capable and experienced Corporate Affairs Manager to join the Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs team at the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). This is a senior role requiring strong media expertise, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to lead high-profile communications activity.

Reporting to the Head of Communications, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering communications strategies that support the FRC’s objectives, enhance its reputation, and strengthen engagement with key audiences.

Media and External Communications

- Lead proactive and reactive media engagement, acting as a key press contact for the FRC.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with national, trade, and financial media.
- Provide expert advice to senior leaders on media strategy, risk, and reputational issues.
- Own the development of nuanced messaging that supports the organisation’s strategy
- Draft high-quality press releases, statements, op-eds, and briefing materials. 
 

Campaign Delivery

- Design and deliver integrated communications campaigns from concept through to delivery and evaluation.
- Align campaign activity with organisational priorities, ensuring clear messaging and measurable outcomes.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring delivery to tight deadlines.
 

Senior Stakeholder Engagement

- Act as a Business Partner to senior leaders across the organisation
- Build trusted relationships with senior internal stakeholders, including executive leadership.
- Provide strategic communications advice and support for high-profile announcements and publications.
- Engage confidently with external stakeholders, including; journalists, firms, government bodies, and industry leaders.
 

Reputation Management

- Anticipate, identify, and manage reputational risks.
- Lead communications responses to sensitive or complex issues.
- Contribute to crisis communications planning and delivery.
 

Team Contribution

- Work collaboratively across the Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs team.
- Support the development of junior team members where appropriate.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of communications processes and practices.
 

Person Specification

- Significant experience in a corporate affairs, communications, or media role.
- Extensive media relations experience, ideally within business, financial, regulatory, or professional services environments (though other sectors will be considered).
- Demonstrable experience managing end-to-end communications campaigns.
- Proven ability to advise and influence senior stakeholders with credibility and confidence.
 

Skills and Capabilities

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
Strong news judgement and understanding of the UK media landscape.
Ability to manage competing priorities and work at pace in a high-profile environment.
Confident, proactive, and resilient, with sound judgement under pressure.
Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
 

Desirable

- Experience working in a regulatory, public sector, or policy-driven organisation.
- Understanding of the financial reporting, audit, or governance landscape.
 

Please apply by uploading a copy of your CV and covering letter as a single document upload. In the covering letter, please set out, by reference to the person specification above how you meet the required skillset.

Rewards and benefits

- The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra leave.
- Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.
- Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.
- The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.
- The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.

The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% per month of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager

The FRC is a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions, as defined by the Equality Act 2010, who meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% per month of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.