Based at: Hybrid working- ability to travel across UK and access our HQ’s at Wantage/Thruxton
The Role (Full time with Part time available)
The primary mission of the Mission Community Armed Forces Engagement Lead is to help us champion the Armed Forces in society by recognising, celebrating and demonstrating the value of every member of the Armed Forces to every community in the country. We are an advocacy body, and a brand of long-established Service charity Mission Motorsport, with whom we share administrative functions as one charity.
Our primary focus right now are the communities within industry via our work with the Office for Veterans Affairs’ ‘Veterans Industry Engagement Programme’, funded by the Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust (AFCFT) grant to whom we are accountable. These manifest via our ‘Missions’, Sector Initiative campaigns allied to specific industry trade bodies, organisations and companies. These are the main stakeholders our AFELs interact with daily.
This role is strategic in outlook and tactical in delivery, requiring the sort of individual who is at ease communicating to senior leaders within industry, as well as someone who is willing to roll their sleeves up and participate in events, host meetings and deliver KPIs. This includes our National Transition Event at Silverstone, that annually hosts 1900+ members of the Armed Forces community. Our team is small, independent, but open and inclusive, and we approach projects as a whole team.
Job Purpose
- To help us as a team, develop and manage sector level stakeholders from across We are working extensively across Renewable, Automotive, Manufacturing, Defence, Land-based, Facilities and Construction to name but a few. This delivers specific outcomes for government.
- To develop a range of consultancy services offering relating to Armed Forces Our team delivers advice on reporting social value, Defence as a customer and Armed Forces Champion training. You will be expected to understand our products, with the opportunities available to deliver certain elements such as training courses.
- Manage commercial agreements with individual organisations that deliver Armed Forces engagement outcomes, against agreed contractual For example, Armed Forces engagement support to an event or an individual company.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks
- Maintain good relationships with key industry, government and 3rd sector
- Identify key contacts and potential partnership organisations to foster
- Share best practices and services with regards to engagement with the Armed Forces
- Understand the issues, challenges and obstacles facing clients and other organisations in relation to Armed Forces engagement and identify potential solutions that also meet their needs.
- Help us deliver extant KPIs within the Government’s Veterans Industry Engagement Programme centred around our Sector Initiative
- Function as an ally of the MoD, Office for Veterans’ Affairs (OVA), Career Transition Partnership (CTP), Defence Relationship Management (DRM) and Reserve Forces C Cadets Associations (RFCAs).
- Ensure accurate and timely recording of Armed Forces engagement activity via reports and regular team
- Contribution to our products and outputs, such as helping the team, develop sector guides alongside industry partners.
Essential Knowledge s Experience
- Proven experience in building relationships, and marketing people and ideas within a business context as an advocate of underrepresented
- Experience of initiating and managing high level external relationships up to C- suite levels or
- An empathy with and an understanding of Armed Forces community is Veterans, Service families and Reservists are strongly encouraged to apply, though this is not a pre-requisite.
Desirable Knowledge s Experience
- Experience of collaborating with companies around employment challenges and opportunities.
- An understanding of the Defence employer engagement landscape and key players within the UK (eg DRM, RFCAs, Career Transition Partnership (CTP), Forces Employment Charity and COBSEO).
- Knowledge and understanding of industry sectors at a strategic
- Previous service or affiliation with the Armed Forces
- An understanding and awareness of prospective and developing sector initiatives that may benefit from engagement with the Armed Forces
Key Competencies s Behaviours
- A confident communicator who can articulate and deliver compelling briefs both orally and in
- Willingness to research, explore and build knowledge in new sector
- Able to build rapport quickly and to understand needs, wants and expectations of
- Manages challenging situations in a calm and balanced
- Displays the highest levels of integrity, confidentiality and
- Flexible and adaptable, able to prioritise against competing demands
- A initiative-taker and collaborator, comfortable working in different business environments and
Ts s Cs
- Workplace pension scheme
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Hybrid working with some UK Weekend work is not ruled out but rarely requested. TOIL will apply in such circumstances.
Full time Salary £41,200 with part time option available for discussion.
Applications: CV and covering letter to be submitted to hr@missionmotorsport.org
Pre-application call requests welcome to the Managing Director Jonny Ball via jb@missioncommunity.org
Timelines: 25 July 2025. Interviews start w/c 28 July 2025.
Process:
Interview stages include initial screening (all applicants will be informed of the outcome), Teams interviews (with peer team members), final interview with Executive team members, and outcome communicated via phone call with feedback available.
