Cavendish Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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Cavendish Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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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.

Belfast

Permanent/Full time

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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Advertising Services

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