Political, Crisis & Litigation, Associate Consultant

As an Associate Consultant in Teneo’s Political, Crisis and Litigation Communications team you'll have a passion for politics and public policy, with at least a year’s demonstrable experience from Westminster, Whitehall, political parties, think tanks, businesses, other agencies, or campaigning organisations.

Within our team you'd play a crucial role in tracking political and regulatory developments and Parliamentary debates and committees; analysing policy white papers and consultations; creating stakeholder maps; and identifying engagement opportunities for clients. You'd also be a critical support to our overall team when it comes to account co-ordination and you’d bring a strong approach to project and time management. You’d be responsible for staying ahead of political, policy and issues developments from key stakeholders, and for applying insights gained from your understanding of the political world to our clients’ challenges.

As part of Teneo, you’d work with integrated teams of specialists drawn from within the Political, Crisis and Litigation Communications team and across our Strategy & Communications practice (including financial communications and campaigning), as well as colleagues from our management consulting and restructuring divisions.

Teneo is a stimulating, stretching and dynamic place to work. We provide opportunities for rapid progression, a high degree of responsibility and significant ambition for growth for our business and our people.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with wide-ranging perspectives who are intellectually curious, creative, collaborative and eager to learn.

Political Consulting at Teneo

Political advisory is a central element of our offer to C-Suite clients. Our work encompasses public affairs and political campaigning; public policy influencing and advisory; and regulatory capabilities.

Teneo enables our clients to navigate an uncertain political landscape to secure commercial advantage. We help business leaders position themselves for success during times of opportunity, change and crisis.

Our work includes advising senior clients on political and regulatory developments; helping clients to shape and respond to government policy proposals; building the right relationships with key decision-makers, ensuring clients have a seat at the table for policy discussions that affect them, neutralising political and regulatory risk around M&A and other transaction moments, advising on insight-led actions to protect corporate reputation / brand trust during a crisis or high-stakes situation, providing political and regulatory due diligence and monitoring, as well as expert CEO and executive coaching for senior political engagement, select committee hearings etc.

Based in Teneo’s multi-disciplinary London office, we regularly work alongside colleagues from our financial communications, management consulting and financial advisory teams.

Key attributes

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships quickly and work effectively with clients and internal teams
• Genuine interest in politics, policy, and current affairs, staying informed and sharing relevant developments and insights
• Well-organised and dependable, with a track record of managing deadlines, prioritising tasks, and communicating progress clearly
• Proactive and responsive, with a positive attitude and a willingness to take initiative and get involved
• Analytical mindset, comfortable gathering, synthesising, and interpreting information to support insight generation and decision-making
• Strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and quality in written and analytical work
• Interest in building external networks, particularly across political, policy, or media environments
• Commercial awareness, with an interest in how client relationships grow and how opportunities for new work can emerge
• Collaborative approach, comfortable working across teams, including with international colleagues, and contributing to a supportive team environment
• Growth mindset, open to feedback and motivated to continuously develop skills, including curiosity about new tools and technologies (e.g. AI)
• Flexible and adaptable, able to respond to changing priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced environment

Skills and Experience

• At least 12 months of experience in a political or policy role, or a communications role
• Degree in Politics or related discipline
• Experience generating high quality political or communications research and analysis, including recommendations for action
• Desirable: Experience of policy development via experience with a think tank, civil service, a party-political role, agency or in-house
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, tailoring style of communication to the intended audience
• Appetite to build their own skills and knowledge
• Enthusiasm about creativity and campaigning, including working with and across different communications disciplines, and within multi-disciplinary teams, to deliver maximum impact
• Proactively seek and develop new and better ways of delivering client work

Benefits

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 45+ offices around the world