Leader’s Visits Coordinator
Job Title: Leader’s Visits Coordinator
Responsible to: Executive Manager of the Leader’s Office
Salary: £26,500
Hours: Full Time (40 per week)
Tenure: Permanent
Location: Parliament/Liberal Democrat Head Office/Home
Closing Date: N/A - Advert will remain open until the role is filled.
Purpose of the job
The Liberal Democrats are thrilled to announce a fantastic opportunity to join the Leader’s Office following our historic triumph in the 2024 General Election, where we secured an incredible 72 seats and reclaimed our place as the third largest party in the House of Commons.
As a party that has to fight extra hard for our media attention, making our visuals unique and exciting to capture the media and electorate’s attention is crucial to our success. During the 2024 General Election, we secured incredible media attention with Ed Davey’s eye-catching visits and stunts, which included paddle-boarding in Lake Windermere, water sliding in Somerset and bungee jumping in Eastbourne!
We’re looking for someone with exciting ideas to take the lead organising these visits, and help us continue our record of success and keep the media’s attention.
In this crucial role, you will work closely with the Executive Manager to ensure the Leader keeps a consistent schedule of visits across the country all year round. You will gain first hand experience in a high-level political office, and will be handling a wide variety of exciting tasks that are essential to our success.
Job Description:
- Work with the Executive Manager and Chief of Staff to design a schedule of Leader’s visits throughout the year
- Work closely across departments and stakeholders to organise and deliver visits (including the Media Team, Campaigns Department and Parliamentary Offices including the 72 MPs offices)
- Lead on meetings and reconnaissance trips
- Prepare in depth visit itineraries and briefings for the Leader
- Brief the Leader ahead of visits
- Work closely with the Executive Manager around set piece events to deliver visits for national media coverage
Person Specification:
The following criteria are considered essential:
- Detail oriented
- Effective time management
- Confidence when working with a variety of stakeholders from volunteers to Parliamentarians
- Exceptional personal organisation
- Ability to multitask
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a high pressure environment
- Excellent written communication skills with a high level of attention to detail
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision, self-motivating and able manage own workload
- Familiarity with current issues within UK politics and sympathy with the values and aims of the Liberal Democrats
The following criteria are considered highly desirable:
- Experience in events organisation
- Experience working with volunteers
Starting date: ASAP.
How to apply:
To apply, please send the below to recruitment@libdems.org.uk
- A copy of your CV, including complete work history
- A covering letter, no more than one A4 page in length, indicating clearly how your experience and skills meet the criteria stated in the job, key responsibilities, and person specification (please put your name on the top of the letter), and;
- A completed diversity monitoring form (linked).
We will be reviewing applications as they come in and reserve the right to appoint prior to the closing date.
Please note: We will not be able to employ you if you are not eligible to work in the UK. We will not be able to obtain a work permit on your behalf.
Applicants are encouraged to inform us if any reasonable adjustments are needed to be made during any part of the recruitment process.
Please let us have details of your current salary and two referees including one from your current employer – if you would prefer us not to contact them until a later stage of the selection process, please let us know.
We will not notify applicants if their application has been unsuccessful at shortlisting stage.
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