Campaign Manager (Tunbridge Wells)

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 + pension contribution, depending on experience (open to negotiation for an exceptional and more experienced candidate)

Hours: Full-time (40 hours per week). Exceptional part-time applications will be considered. Evening and weekend working will be required, especially as the Borough elections draw closer.

Location: Own office at Tunbridge Wells HQ (Town Hall TN1 1XR) with travel across the constituency when needed. Some work can be carried out from home. 

Responsible to: Local Party Chair and / or Agent

Start date: Negotiable, ideally November 2025.

Contract: Permanent subject to probationary review after 3 months.
 

Leave: 25 days holiday (+8 bank holidays)

Mike Martin MP and the Tunbridge Wells Lib Dems are looking for an ambitious and experienced campaigner to drive their borough election campaign in May 2026.  

This is now a held seat with a well-established campaign infrastructure and a growing team of seasoned campaigners – join us to help us continue to grow!

Key responsibilities 

Project manage the campaign

You’ll make sure Mike and the Tunbridge Wells Lib Dem team win seats across Tunbridge Wells delivering an agreed campaign plan on time and in budget, working closely with our local team of campaign volunteers. 

Recruit and inspire our growing team of activists

You’ll continuously recruit and engage new volunteers and activists into the Lib Dem campaign, working with our senior campaign volunteers. If needed, you’ll run training to arm our volunteers with the skills, tips and tricks needed to make an impact when meeting voters on the doorstep or to build a winning leaflet delivery team. 

Produce on-message and persuasive campaign literature

You’ll create well-designed leaflets and letters – crafting persuasive copy and powerful images – to inspire voters and supporters, working within the campaign’s agreed strategic messaging. You’ll also coordinate the production and distribution of literature from printers and our campaign HQ.  

Organise our ground campaign activity 

You’ll plan and manage a highly-organised schedule of ground campaign activity to get the Tunbridge Wells Lib Dem volunteer local party to deliver our messages to voters across every part of the constituency. This will involve recruiting volunteers, organising doorstep canvassing sessions, coordinating leaflet delivery teams and sessions and more – all working alongside our seasoned local volunteers. 

Contribute data-driven campaign insights, advice and decisions

Drawing on voter contact data, feedback from canvassing teams, responses to literature and your sharp political instincts, you’ll contribute insights and analysis to help make the decisions we need to win. More experienced candidates will be given responsibility to contribute well-evidenced advice and help drive key decisions.

Who we’re looking for

You know how to get things done

You’re highly organised and have experience managing a project with lots of different strands. You know how to make sure team members know what tasks they need to do and make sure they do them. You’re good at meeting deadlines, making sure others do too, and at keeping track of a budget. 

You can motivate and lead others

You have the professionalism, enthusiasm and empathy to work with a wide range of different people across a large team of volunteers. You know how to build relationships and motivate others and will be able to work closely with our ward leaders and teams so as to grow capacity and get things done. Ideally you will have experience recruiting, managing and training volunteers. 

You have an eye for detail, design and wordsmithing

You have experience designing and writing high-quality, engaging and well-crafted campaign leaflets and letters that win votes. With sharp attention to detail, you know how to produce proof ready products and have experience using publishing tools.  

You can manage competing priorities in a fast-paced role

You’re organised enough to multitask at pace across lots of simultaneous demands and manage competing priorities independently. You know how to keep your cool under fire and when surrounded by distractions, never losing sight of your goals, and good at encouraging others to do the same. 

You want to win

You’re hungry and driven to win. You’re committed to our mission to keep winning seats at a local level to drive positive change locally and nationally.  You care enough to get stuck right in and get the job done. In exchange, we will show you how we have run winning campaigns over the past two years. 

Technical experience

Very strong general computer skills with up-to-date knowledge of Microsoft Office. Good knowledge and familiarity with Lib Dem campaign software, Connect and Affinity Publisher.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years’ experience (or a similar level of seniority in their current role) and have line management experience.

In the longer run, there is an opportunity for the role to grow into something bigger, as we prepare for the creation of a new West Kent authority replacing the borough and county councils. Contact us for details if you’re interested to know more about this.

How to apply

By email to taramatthewslibdem@gmail.com, with: 

·      A full CV of no more than two pages, including a telephone number and email address. Please include contact details of two referees. 

·      A covering letter (no more than one A4 page) setting out why you want the job and how your experience and skills are relevant to it

Closing date: 19 October 2025. Interviews will be offered on a rolling basis, and we may appoint prior to the closing date.

Any questions? Contact Tara Matthews, Head of Campaigns in Tunbridge Wells at taramatthewslibdem@gmail.com.

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.  

The Party believes it is essential to foster equity, equality, diversion and inclusion within our workforce. We want our employees to thrive in an environment where everyone is welcome and supported to achieve their potential. It is important to celebrate what makes us unique and that you feel valued, appreciate and free to be who you are.