Cavendish
Account Director | Government Relations
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Belfast
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Full time 37.5 hours
What we’re all about:
Cavendish is all about talented people, delivering excellent results for our clients. We are a multi-award-winning, PR Week Top 150 communications consultancy, ranked No 1 in PR Week’s UK Public Affairs consultancy rankings and recognised at PRCA National Awards 2025 as Large Consultancy of the Year.
Across our 12 strategically located UK and Ireland offices, Cavendish brings together industry-specialist communications to provide integrated solutions for clients and limitless development opportunities for our people.
We believe in sourcing talent from diverse backgrounds, nurturing a company culture that leads to a strong work life balance, and strengthening it by providing great learning and development opportunities.
What you will get from us:
- You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to the next level, working with dynamic, talented people in a fast paced and expanding organisation.
- Alongside a competitive salary, we provide extensive training and development opportunities and an industry leading benefits package including:
- A flexible, hybrid working model
- Access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry
- Industry leading allocation of paid time off
- Geographical flexibility across our regional offices
- Private Medical Insurance
- Regular social and teambuilding events
- Paid time off to volunteer for a charity
What we are looking for:
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- A hunger to learn, an enthusiastic attitude and an open mind.
- A desire to work at pace, learn by osmosis from industry experts, and deliver consistently high-quality work.
- An interest in current affairs and understanding of how local, devolved and national government works.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- A creative mindset.
Knowledge And Skills
- Strong and demonstrable interest in current affairs, politics and stakeholder engagement.
- An excellent understanding of the political system in Northern Ireland, with a strong knowledge base of the political institutions across the UK and Ireland.
- The ability to think strategically and develop new business proposals, tender responses and client strategies and engagement plans
- Strong inter-personal skills and the ability to work across client and internal teams to develop strong and lasting relationships with clients and colleagues
What you’ll need to do:
- A lead relationship holder for your assigned clients. You are accountable for the effective and profitable delivery of projects and retainers for these clients. You are a key driver of income growth, taking responsibility for developing existing clients and winning new clients for Cavendish. Your specific duties will include:
- Working with multi-disciplinary teams to lead Government Relations campaigns in support of major projects in the energy, development, health & telecoms sectors. This will include elements of strategy formulation as well as tactical delivery.
- Supporting and leading the delivery of current Government Relations activity in Belfast including strategy development, tactical delivery, community and media liaison, client meeting attendance, and compiling project documentation.
- Helping drive research both in support of individual tenders and pitches and more general public affairs campaigns.
- Working with the Directors to analyse the market, develop new offerings and products/services. Support Government Relations marketing activity.
- Working in a flexible way across projects and teams to provide support in line with client and new business demands.
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Equal Opportunities
Our vision is to be a truly diverse and inclusive workplace that enables us to attract and retain a diverse workforce, representative of our clients and community. For this reason, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of qualifications and experience in industry and from all persons, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
Everyone stands to benefit when we embrace and value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and ways of working that people from different backgrounds, experiences and identities bring to an organisation.
We are a disability confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application and interview stages, please email peopleteam@cavendishconsulting.com.
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