JOB SUMMARY

Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Senior Debt Strategy & Policy Manager. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by shaping evidence-led debt advice policy, driving strategic alignment across the sector, and improving outcomes for people experiencing problem debt. You’ll lead work on integrating debt advice into health systems in line with the NHS 10 Year Plan, recognising the vital link between financial wellbeing and health. Through collaboration with stakeholders and the application of research, insight and lived experience, you’ll help design and continuously improve high-quality, accessible services that respond to the evolving needs of the public. This dynamic role will evolve with the debt advice landscape, offering opportunities to influence national strategy and service delivery at scale.
You’ll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to helping people across the UK improve their financial wellbeing.

YOU WILL NEED TO DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE.

To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• A broad and deep understanding of the debt advice sector in the UK or other similar sector.• Proven expertise at influencing and engaging senior and operational stakeholders, both internally and externally.• Proven experience in policy development, analysis and advocacy• Excellent presentation and communication skills, able to produce and deliver compelling, engaging and tailored content for different audiences• Demonstrable experience of project leadership and oversight.• Able to work autonomously and manage/ influence others to meet deadlines and required standards.• Ability to accurately and effectively manage a variety of business management tasks.• Experience of line management and managing matrix teams

Desirable:
• A broad and deep understanding of the health sector in the UK or other similar sector.

ABOUT US

The Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) is based in Bedford, in a recently renovated modern office. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to become an integral part of a dynamic organisation, working to help people across the UK.

At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting, and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves with our values:

• CARINGWe care about our colleagues and the people whose lives we are here to transform.
• CONNECTINGWe will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections.
• TRANSFORMINGWe are committed to transforming lives and making a positive societal impact.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Senior Debt Strategy & Policy Manager will report directly to the Head of Debt Strategy & Policy. In this role, you will be responsible for:

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop MaPS policy positions on matters relating to debt and debt advice, including leading MaPS submissions and inputs to Government and sector initiatives and consultations that impact the organisation or its customers.
• Collaborate with internal and external policy leads to ensure MaPS aligns with and delivers on strategic priorities, including those related to health systems.
• Lead engagement activities with the debt advice sector, enhancing and maintaining MaPS reputation and credibility.
• Forge and sustain relationships with emerging and previously disengaged stakeholders, such as digital lenders, commercial debt advice agencies, insolvency practitioners, central government departments, and local authorities.
• Support the Service’s Debt Advice Reference Group, Debt Adviser Panel, and related working groups, while facilitating sector-wide engagement groups and external meetings.
• Attend, support, and contribute to relevant stakeholder events to represent MaPS and its strategic interests.
• Provide subject matter expertise to other teams across the Service.
• Scope and manage research initiatives to strengthen MaPS evidence base and inform policy development.

To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• A broad and deep understanding of the debt advice sector in the UK or other similar sector.• Proven expertise at influencing and engaging senior and operational stakeholders, both internally and externally.• Proven experience in policy development, analysis and advocacy• Excellent presentation and communication skills, able to produce and deliver compelling, engaging and tailored content for different audiences• Demonstrable experience of project leadership and oversight.• Able to work autonomously and manage/ influence others to meet deadlines and required standards.• Ability to accurately and effectively manage a variety of business management tasks.• Experience of line management and managing matrix team