Local Party Data Officer
Find information on the role and responsibilities of a Local Party Data Officer here.
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What's the role?
Time: 2- 3 hours per week
Data Officers typically have logins to at least one of up to three databases which the party uses.
In context of campaigns and elections, the Data Officer supports the local party and candidates to use data effectively and intelligently, to run targeted campaigns.
Key tasks
The Data Officer is the person with overall responsibility for the use and maintenance of data at a local party level.
- Manage your local party's campaign data, using Connect.
- Manage your local party's membership data, using Lighthouse.
- Manage email lists.
- Manipulate and use data for local campaigns, and produce data as required.
- Ensure that data is processed in accordance with the party data protection rules.
- Collect marked registers and oversee the data work involved after each election.
Help & support
- You can join the Liberal Democrats Local Party Officers Facebook group, to make contact and share best practice with other officers.
- For peer-to-peer help with learning and using Connect, join the Connect Users Facebook group.
- Connect training resources on the Lib Dem Tech Blog.
- Fleet training resources on the Lib Dem Tech Blog.
- Lighthouse training resources on the Lib Dem Tech Blog.
Skills & attributes
Being a Data Officer gives you great influence, and it can enable you to make a big difference to the success of your local party. A good Data Officer would be somebody who:
- Is a confident user of software.
- Has excellent attention to detail.
- Is analytical and observant.
- Enjoys using data to solve problems.
- Can understand and enforce regulations.
How to apply
The Data Officer is a position on the local party Executive Committee.
As a part of the local party's Executive Committee, the role is elected each year at the local party AGM.
All local party members are eligible to stand.
Further resources
For the Local Party Data Officer
To access these resources, you will need to be a member of the Campaigns hub, if you aren’t already you can join here.
A Year in the Life of a Connect Manager
Find the training video on a year in the life of a data officer here
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