The role requires a highly organised and proactive individual, able to anticipate needs, operate across multiple priorities, and bring structure, clarity and continuous improvement to Directorate processes.

Key Accountabilities

Business Management

• Providing a comprehensive business management function for the Policy, Strategy & Communications Directorate, ensuring smooth and effective day-to-day operations.
• Coordinating delivery of corporate business processes, including outcome reporting, people survey follow-up and internal performance cycles.
• Developing and maintaining a forward-looking Directorate workplan and outcome tracker, helping to ensure Directorate priorities are aligned with organisational objectives and ensuring progress is clearly tracked and communicated.
• Proactively supporting the Directorate’s ExCo member and Senior Management Team to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Directorate processes, including through the use of digital tools and AI, and supporting the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives.
• Acting as secretariat for meetings of the Senior Management Team for the Directorate, including coordinating agendas, commissioning papers and tracking actions.
• Leading the planning and delivery of Directorate-wide activities, including team away days and directorate collaboration meetings.

Shareholder Relations

• Supporting and coordinating the organisation’s relationship with HM Treasury and its shareholder representative (UK Government Investments).
• Managing regular shareholder reporting and information requests, ensuring high-quality and timely submissions.
• Coordinating inputs into shareholder governance processes, including preparation for quarterly shareholder meetings and CEO briefings.
• Tracking and managing where the Fund’s business activity requires formal shareholder approvals, ensuring alignment across internal stakeholders.

Government Engagement

• Coordinating briefing and preparation for senior engagement with government departments, devolved administrations and other public sector organisations.
• Supporting annual process of department and public financial institution engagement planning, ensuring effective implementation and necessary review points.
• Coordinating maintenance of the Directorate’s government stakeholder engagement database.

Team Management

• The role will require frequent task management on a matrix basis with other members of the Directorate who are assigned to support business management and government engagement functions as part of their corporate objectives.
• The role will also involve working closely with the Directorate’s Executive Assistant, supporting them to deliver key processes which contribute to Directorate business management.

Key Experience, Knowledge & Skills

• Experience in business management, operations, or strategy coordination roles, ideally within a public sector, policy or financial institution context.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical and planning capability, with experience developing workplans, trackers or performance frameworks.
• Experience of supporting senior governance structures, including agenda setting, paper coordination and action tracking.
• Ability to engage confidently across multiple stakeholders in different business functions, as well as senior stakeholders and shareholder representatives.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a focus on building warm, productive relationships across the organisation and fostering collaboration to support effective delivery.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive and solutions-focused, with the ability to operate with autonomy and judgement.
• Experience working in or with HM Treasury and/or other core government departments would be desirable but not essential.

A career with us offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact and work on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the UK’s future. We value diversity in our people and inclusion is at the heart of what we do. We offer competitive benefits and unique learning opportunities from combining both private and public sector skills and experience.

Please note, referencing and background checks are carried out for all roles here at the National Wealth Fund.

The National Wealth Fund encourages a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people. Inclusion is at the heart of what the Fund does. Diversity in the Fund's people and their ideas will be vital to the National Wealth Fund's success.

Appointments will be made on merit, with regard to maintaining the breadth of experience and expertise required and reflecting diversity in the broadest sense, to embrace different perspectives, characteristics and experience, as well as being broadly representative of the nations and regions of the UK.

Our roles are open to full-time, part-time or job-share applicants. Job-share applicants should supply individual CVs and a joint cover letter submitted with both applications.

As part of our standard hiring process, please be informed that a background check will be conducted for successful candidates in accordance with our company policy and industry best practices.

Please note, that successful candidates will be offered a salary that is appropriate to their relevant experience and performance during the selection process.