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United Kingdom · Public Relations Communications · Lead Level (8-12 years)

Lead Government Relations Director

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandLead Level (8-12 years)
  • Direct reports3-5 reports
  • Reports toDirector of Government Relations
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Public Policy (UK) · Senior Government Affairs Manager · Lead Public Affairs Specialist

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1What this role really is

This role is all about being our eyes and ears in a specific political or regulatory landscape, usually a key region or a set of complex policy areas. You'll be the one who figures out how government decisions impact our business and then crafts the plan to make sure those decisions work in our favour. It's not just about reacting; it's about getting ahead of things, building relationships, and making sure our voice is heard where it matters.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

FiscalNote / Quorum / POLITICO Pro (or similar UK equivalent)Advanced

Building complex queries to track specific bills, amendments, and parliamentary questions. Analysing legislative co-sponsorship networks and training your team on platform features. You're not just running reports; you're extracting deep insights.

Capitol Canary / VoterVoice / Muster (or similar UK equivalent)Expert

Designing multi-channel advocacy campaigns, segmenting audiences for targeted outreach, and analysing A/B test results on messaging to optimise impact. You'll be the one making these platforms sing.

Salesforce (Gov/Public Sector Cloud) / Votility / customised MS Dynamics 365Advanced

Creating custom dashboards to track lobbying activities and stakeholder engagement. Managing the generation of compliance reports and ensuring data integrity across your team's inputs. You're the guardian of our GR data.

Slack / MS Teams / ConfluenceAdvanced

Setting up new channels and workflows for specific policy initiatives or crisis response. Integrating external alerts (e.g., from POLITICO Pro) directly into team communication channels. Managing your team's knowledge base in Confluence.

Power BI / Tableau (for Executive & Board Reporting)Intermediate

Preparing data and drafting slides for inclusion in board materials. Building simple dashboards to visualise key policy trends or stakeholder engagement metrics for internal reporting.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Lobbying Strategy & TacticsProposes specific tactics for supervisor review.Develops and executes tactics for a policy area, escalates major strategic shifts.Designs and leads comprehensive advocacy campaigns, consults on major strategic shifts.
Budget Allocation (for GR activities)No authority; tracks expenses.Manages small project budgets (up to £5K) with manager approval.Approves project expenses up to £20K; recommends larger budget allocations.
External RepresentationAttends meetings, takes notes, supports senior staff.Represents company in routine meetings with junior staff/trade associations.Leads meetings with senior staff/MPs; represents company in coalition working groups.
Team Management & HiringNo direct reports.Provides informal guidance to new joiners.Mentors 1-2 junior team members; provides input on performance reviews.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Favourable Policy Outcomes
Number of legislative or regulatory proposals where our preferred language or outcome was successfully included or adverse language was removed.
Target · 5+ instances annually within your jurisdiction

Successfully secured an amendment in the Digital Markets Bill that clarified our platform's liability, saving an estimated £2M in potential compliance costs.

Stakeholder Engagement Score
Our internal rating of key policymakers' and their staff's understanding and sentiment towards our company and its policy positions.
Target · Achieve >75% 'favourable' or 'neutral' rating for top 20 priority contacts

Increased our sentiment score with the Department for Business and Trade from 50% to 80% on our key policy priority over 12 months.

Coalition Leadership & Effectiveness
Number of active coalitions or working groups where you hold a leadership position (e.g., Chair, Vice-Chair) and the measurable impact of those groups.
Target · Lead 2+ key industry coalitions; achieve 3+ joint policy submissions annually

Chaired the FinTech Policy Working Group, which successfully submitted three joint recommendations to HM Treasury, two of which were adopted in the recent consultation response.

Team Productivity & Development
The efficiency of your direct reports in legislative tracking, research, and material preparation, alongside their professional growth.
Target · 90%+ accuracy in team's policy tracking; 100% completion of team's development plans

Your team consistently delivers policy summaries within 8 hours of publication, and two junior analysts are ready for promotion to Specialist roles next year.

Strategic Foresight
Your ability to anticipate future policy risks and opportunities, providing proactive advice to leadership.
  • You're regularly invited to strategic planning sessions. Your early warnings about upcoming legislation often prove accurate, allowing the business to prepare. You're seen as the 'go-to' person for 'what's coming next' in your area.
Crisis Response Leadership
How effectively you lead the government relations response during unexpected political or regulatory crises.
  • During a sudden political scandal or adverse media report, you quickly assemble the facts, brief leadership clearly, and coordinate a measured, effective response with minimal executive oversight. You keep a cool head and guide the team through the chaos.
Internal Business Partnership
How well you translate complex political issues into clear, actionable insights for internal business units, fostering strong relationships.
  • Business unit leaders regularly seek your input on their strategic plans. They understand the 'why' behind policy decisions you recommend. You're not just seen as a 'policy expert' but a genuine business partner who helps them achieve their goals within the political reality.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Strategic Impact

You thrive on seeing your advice directly shape the company's direction or prevent a major business challenge. You're motivated by the idea that your work influences the rules of the game.

Successfully lobbying for a specific clause in a new bill that protects our market share, directly seeing the financial benefit to the company.

Complex Problem Solving

You love untangling messy political situations, figuring out the different angles, and crafting a multi-pronged approach to achieve a specific policy goal. It's like a high-stakes chess game.

Developing a coalition of unlikely allies to push for a nuanced regulatory change that benefits our specific business model.

Relationship Building & Influence

You genuinely enjoy meeting new people, understanding their perspectives, and building long-term trust with policymakers and their staff. You get a buzz from knowing you have a strong network.

An MP's staffer calls you directly for input on a policy paper because they trust your expertise and perspective.

What frustrates people
  • The slow pace of legislative change and the constant need for patience.
  • Internal stakeholders not understanding the political realities or timelines.
  • Investing heavily in a relationship only for a key policymaker to lose their seat or move committees.
  • The need to constantly distil complex policy into simple, executive-friendly summaries.
  • The feeling of being a political scapegoat when external events don't go our way.
What this role does not give you
  • Guaranteed immediate results or quick wins for every effort.
  • A predictable, routine schedule with no last-minute demands.
  • A clear, linear path where every action has an obvious, direct outcome.
  • The chance to always be the 'hero' – sometimes success is simply preventing something bad from happening.

6Who you work with

This role directly shapes our regulatory environment and market access within its assigned jurisdiction. Your work can prevent adverse legislation, secure favourable policy conditions, and protect our brand's standing with key political decision-makers. It's about ensuring the company can operate smoothly and expand, free from unexpected political headwinds or regulatory surprises. You're essentially the company's political risk manager and opportunity creator for your patch.

Inside the business
  • Legal & Compliance Teams
  • Product & Engineering Leadership
  • Business Unit Heads (e.g., UK Market Lead)
  • Finance Department
Outside the business
  • Members of Parliament (MPs) & their staff
  • Civil Servants (relevant government departments)
  • Trade Associations & Industry Bodies
  • Think Tanks & Academic Experts
  • Regulatory Bodies (e.g., FCA, Ofgem)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven track record of successfully influencing policy outcomes in a government relations or public affairs role for 8-12 years.
  • Experience leading or significantly contributing to complex advocacy campaigns.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain high-level relationships with government officials.
  • Experience managing a budget and/or a small team of professionals.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, especially for persuasive arguments and executive briefings.
  • A deep understanding of the UK legislative and regulatory process, or equivalent experience in a similar jurisdiction.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

AI-Powered Policy Research & Synthesis

AI tools are rapidly improving their ability to ingest vast amounts of text, identify key themes, summarise documents, and even predict potential policy outcomes. Your value will shift from manual research to expertly prompting these tools, validating their outputs, and integrating their insights into your strategy.

Prompt Engineering for Policy · AI Output Validation · AI for Stakeholder Mapping · Ethical AI Use in GR

  • This week: Experiment with ChatGPT or Claude to summarise a recent government consultation response.
  • This month: Explore how AI tools (like FiscalNote's AI features) can enhance your legislative tracking and reporting.
  • Next quarter: Develop a 'playbook' for your team on how to use AI for initial policy research, including validation steps.
  • Ongoing: Stay updated on new AI tools and features relevant to government relations and public affairs.

Quick win: Use AI to draft initial bullet points for a policy briefing or to brainstorm arguments for a specific position. It's a great starting point, just remember to add your human touch.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending parliamentary briefings, select committee hearings, and relevant industry conferences.
  • Participating in professional development programmes offered by bodies like the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) or the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).
  • Engaging in continuous learning on emerging policy issues relevant to our sector (e.g., AI regulation, climate policy, data privacy).
  • Mentoring junior professionals, which often helps solidify your own understanding and leadership skills.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Advanced Data Storytelling for Policy

Policymakers are increasingly data-driven, but they're drowning in numbers. The ability to take complex data (e.g., economic impact, public sentiment) and weave it into a compelling, easy-to-understand narrative is becoming critical. Raw data isn't enough; you need to tell a story that resonates.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Built for Lead Government Relations Director

5 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Politics for JournalistsPearson Education Ltd · covers 1 of 5 standardsLevel 5
  2. Government and PoliticsPearson Education Ltd · covers 1 of 5 standardsLevel 5
  3. Public Affairs for JournalistsNCTJ Training · covers 1 of 5 standardsLevel 5
  4. Working with ministers, politicians and government officials to support policy developmentsCity and Guilds of London Institute · covers 1 of 5 standardsLevel 5
  5. Public Services LeadershipChartered Management Institute · covers 1 of 5 standardsLevel 6
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Advanced Data Storytelling for Policy

Policymakers are increasingly data-driven, but they're drowning in numbers. The ability to take complex data (e.g., economic impact, public sentiment) and weave it into a compelling, easy-to-understand narrative is becoming critical. Raw data isn't enough; you need to tell a story that resonates.

  • Visualisation Best Practices
  • Narrative Structure for Policy
  • Audience-Specific Data Framing
  • Ethical Data Communication

Geopolitical Risk Analysis (for UK context)

Global events—trade disputes, international conflicts, shifts in alliances—increasingly have direct implications for domestic policy and business operations in the UK. Understanding these connections isn't just for global roles anymore; it's vital for anticipating local policy shifts and business impacts.

  • Global-to-Local Impact Mapping
  • Scenario Planning for Global Shocks
  • Trade Policy & Sanctions Regimes
  • International Regulatory Harmonisation/Divergence

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Legislative & Regulatory Process Mastery
  • Coalition Building & Management
  • Advocacy Campaign Design (Grasstops & Grassroots)
  • Policy Analysis & Message Distillation
  • Political Action Committee (PAC) Strategy & Compliance (if applicable)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Government Relations Specialist (L3)

    2-4 years

    Skills to master

    • Deep policy analysis, independent stakeholder engagement with senior staff, leading specific policy projects, initial mentorship of junior colleagues.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Successfully managed a complex policy portfolio end-to-end.
    • Consistently provided insightful policy recommendations to internal stakeholders.
    • Demonstrated ability to represent the company effectively in external meetings.
    • Received positive feedback on informal mentorship of junior team members.
  2. 2

    Senior Parliamentary Advisor / Policy Advisor (from Government)

    3-5 years post-government

    Skills to master

    • Translating government process knowledge into corporate strategy, adapting communication style from political to commercial, building new external networks in the private sector.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven ability to navigate complex political environments and build relationships.
    • Strong understanding of legislative processes and policy development.
    • Demonstrated capacity to quickly grasp new industry-specific policy issues.
    • Clear articulation of how their government experience translates to business value.
  3. 3

    Consultant (Public Affairs / Government Relations)

    3-5 years post-consultancy

    Skills to master

    • Moving from client-service to in-house ownership, deep diving into one company's specific policy agenda, managing internal stakeholders and budgets.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Managed multiple client accounts with significant policy challenges.
    • Developed and executed successful advocacy campaigns for clients.
    • Strong project management and client communication skills.
    • Clear desire to commit to a single organisation's mission and objectives.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here is about becoming a master of influence, a strategic advisor, and a leader who can shape the future of our business by expertly navigating the political landscape. We're excited to see where you take it.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Lead Government Relations Director is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

Also named as a next step, with no page in the catalogue yet:

  • Senior Manager / Principal, Government Relations (L5)

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Politics for JournalistsLevel 5

Applied to your work in Lead Government Relations Director

By completing this unit, learners will understand the UK's national and local political institutions and processes, enabling them to analyse news stories within their historical and political contexts and create journalistic copy.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in Lead Government Relations Director

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Favourable Policy OutcomesNumber of legislative or regulatory proposals where our preferred language or outcome was successfully included or adverse language was removed.Successfully secured an amendment in the Digital Markets Bill that clarified our platform's liability, saving an estimated £2M in potential compliance costs.5+ instances annually within your jurisdiction
  • Stakeholder Engagement ScoreOur internal rating of key policymakers' and their staff's understanding and sentiment towards our company and its policy positions.Increased our sentiment score with the Department for Business and Trade from 50% to 80% on our key policy priority over 12 months.Achieve >75% 'favourable' or 'neutral' rating for top 20 priority contacts
  • Coalition Leadership & EffectivenessNumber of active coalitions or working groups where you hold a leadership position (e.g., Chair, Vice-Chair) and the measurable impact of those groups.Chaired the FinTech Policy Working Group, which successfully submitted three joint recommendations to HM Treasury, two of which were adopted in the recent consultation response.Lead 2+ key industry coalitions; achieve 3+ joint policy submissions annually
  • Team Productivity & DevelopmentThe efficiency of your direct reports in legislative tracking, research, and material preparation, alongside their professional growth.Your team consistently delivers policy summaries within 8 hours of publication, and two junior analysts are ready for promotion to Specialist roles next year.90%+ accuracy in team's policy tracking; 100% completion of team's development plans
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Lead Government Relations Director to Senior Manager / Principal, Government Relations (L5), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Manager / Principal, Government Relations (L5)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey here is about becoming a master of influence, a strategic advisor, and a leader who can shape the future of our business by expertly navigating the political landscape. We're excited to see where you take it.

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Lead Government Relations Director
  • Legislative & Regulatory Process Mastery
  • Coalition Building & Management
  • Advocacy Campaign Design (Grasstops & Grassroots)
  • Policy Analysis & Message Distillation
  • Political Action Committee (PAC) Strategy & Compliance (if applicable)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Lead Government Relations Director is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Senior Manager / Principal, Government Relations (L5)

    3-5 years

    1 level

    • Enterprise Policy Integration: Ensuring GR strategy aligns with global business objectives.
    • Crisis Communications Leadership: Leading the GR response during major corporate crises.
    • Advanced Geopolitical Risk Assessment: Integrating global political trends into domestic strategy.
    • PAC Management & Growth: Overseeing corporate PAC strategy and fundraising (if applicable).

  2. Director of Government Relations (L6)

    5-7 years

    2 levels

    • Global Policy Coordination: Overseeing GR efforts across multiple countries/regions.
    • Advanced Stakeholder Mapping & Influence: Building relationships with ministers and senior political figures.
    • Reputation Management (Policy): Protecting and enhancing the company's reputation through policy engagement.
    • Complex Regulatory Negotiation: Leading negotiations with major regulatory bodies.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, government relations involves a lot of reading, summarising, and trying to keep up with an overwhelming amount of information. Imagine having a super-smart assistant that handles the grunt work, freeing you up to focus on the strategic relationships and high-value influence. That's what AI can do for you here.

We're not talking about replacing human judgment or relationships—far from it. We're talking about using AI to dramatically speed up your research, analysis, and communication, giving you more time to be out there, building trust and shaping policy. Think of it as your secret weapon for staying ahead.

Legislative Summariser

Use AI to ingest that 500-page government white paper or draft bill and instantly get a concise, bulleted summary of the sections most relevant to our business. No more endless scrolling and highlighting just to find the key bits.

Sentiment & Influence Mapper

Quickly analyse social media, news reports, and press releases to map lawmaker sentiment on a key issue in real-time. This helps you spot potential champions or opponents faster than any manual research, giving you an edge in strategy.

Rapid Response Research

Need to prep for an impromptu meeting with an MP? Instantly pull their complete voting record, public statements, top donors, and media mentions on a specific topic. You'll walk in fully briefed, ready to counter any argument.

First Draft Assistant

Generate a solid first draft of common documents like talking points, policy one-pagers, or grassroots action alerts. This means you can spend your valuable time on strategic refinement, adding nuance, and ensuring the message hits just right, rather than staring at a blank page.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Lead Government Relations Director?

Common routes in include Senior Government Relations Specialist (L3) (2-4 years), Senior Parliamentary Advisor / Policy Advisor (from Government) (3-5 years post-government) and Consultant (Public Affairs / Government Relations) (3-5 years post-consultancy). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Lead Government Relations Director progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Manager / Principal, Government Relations (L5) (3-5 years) and Director of Government Relations (L6) (5-7 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Lead Government Relations Director in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Lead Government Relations Director?

Increasingly, Advanced Data Storytelling for Policy and Geopolitical Risk Analysis (for UK context). These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Lead Government Relations Director, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 5 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Lead Government Relations Director: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Public Relations Communications

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop as a Lead Government Relations Director are highly transferable. You could move into senior policy roles within other regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, energy, financial services), or even transition back into government or a leading think tank. The ability to understand and navigate complex political systems is always in demand.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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