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Time: 3 - 4 hours per week
You are the main point of contact for most members, making sure that they are involved with the Lib Dem community where you live.
You will arrange events for them to attend and get them involved with campaigning.
You've also got the important job of keeping your members up to date with their payments, and are the local party lead on recruiting more members.
Managing your local party’s membership is a big task, but is also a highly rewarding one. It suits well organised people with great personal skills.
Being a great membership secretary means you'll need a few key skills and attributes:
The Membership officer is a role on the local party executive.
As a part of the Local Party Executive, the role is elected each year at your local party's AGM.
Any member of the party can stand to be Membership officer.
In England and Wales it is referred to as Membership Development Officer (or 'MDO'), and in Scotland it is referred to as Membership Secretary.
For the Local Party Membership Officer
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Simon Fisher, Chippenham
Owen Temple, Northern Durham
Stephen Atkinson, Liverpool
David Lee, Tandridge
Mike Pringle, South Edinburgh