External Affairs Assistant

About the Role

Are you great at building relationships, organised, creative, and interested in a career in communications, policy, and campaigning?

Community Housing Cymru is looking for an External Affairs Assistant who enjoys a fast paced, dynamic environment and wants to make a difference. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working across multiple areas including media monitoring, desk research, creating digital content, and coordinating events to support our advocacy work. If you're organised, adaptable, and excited to work with housing associations from across Wales, this is your chance to develop key skills and contribute to meaningful change.

We need a proactive, detail-oriented person with a passion for building relationships and effective communication. You'll help maintain our digital platforms and our website, and ensure our messages reach the right audiences. If you love digital and are interested in politics and policy as well as being eager to learn, this role offers a solid foundation for a career in external affairs. You'll engage with stakeholders, support campaigns, and help shape Welsh housing policy as part of a forward-thinking team. Join us and be part of a mission that matters.

To find out more, please take a look at the job pack below.

How to Apply

In the job pack below, you will find:

• Full job description, person specification and information on terms and conditions.
  
• Submission form which you will need to complete outlining in no more than 800 words how you meet the experience criteria set out in the ‘what are we looking for’ part of the job specification and why you want this job.
  
• You MUST also include a tailored CV in relation to your application for this role (max of 3 pages).
  
• Equal opportunities form. This form will not be used at any stage of the recruitment process, and will be separated from your application form immediately on its receipt. Any information given on this form will remain confidential and will only be used for monitoring purposes to assess the effectiveness of our equal opportunities policy.
  

If you want to have an informal chat about the vacancy, please contact Elly Lock.

The completed form, CV and equal opportunities form must be emailed and marked Private and Confidential - External Affairs Assistant to recruitment@chcymru.org.uk by 5pm on Tuesday 17th June 2025.

All forms will be held for 6 months in line with best practice to ensure we are able to give feedback to unsuccessful candidates and to support the organisation if a claim was brought against it.

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 25th June 2025.

We look forward to receiving your completed submission in due course.