Campaigns Officer (Hertfordshire)

Job Title: Campaigns Officer (Hertfordshire)

Responsible to: East of England Campaign Manager

Salary: £25,000 - 27,000

Tenure: Permanent

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)

Closing date: 9am 9th June 2025

Job Description

Do you want to make the world around you a better place to live? Do you want to see your values making a real difference in peoples’ lives? Do you want to work directly with 2 MPs and our newly elected County Councillors to build on the Hertfordshire Liberal Democrats’ historic result in this year’s local elections, and take control of Hertfordshire’s future unitary councils and possible mayoralty in the next elections? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, this role may be the perfect opportunity for you! 

After 26 years of Conservative rule in Hertfordshire, the Liberal Democrats have become the largest party in the county for the first time ever. That’s why we are seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated person who can play a key role in building volunteer infrastructure, creating leaflets and organising doorstep activity – to support our fast-paced campaign. The role will be pivotal to our success in the next local elections, where the Liberal Democrats are best placed to take control of Hertfordshire’s future unitary councils and any future strategic authority mayor.

The role will require strong communication skills, a welcoming attitude, and the confidence to work with and engage volunteers. The successful candidate will be highly motivated by hitting targets, and proactive in keeping the pace of the campaign, getting stuck in on a range of different tasks and getting things done.

This is a rewarding role that offers the opportunity to deliver real and historic political change and positively impact lives across Hertfordshire. It will also give you the chance to develop your strategic and political insights and abilities, as part of a possible future career in politics. This is an exciting time for the Liberal Democrats nationwide.

You will be supported in the role by an experienced regional campaigns manager and talented local teams.

Key Tasks

• Act as a link between the county-wide campaign team and local teams, holding regular checkups with local party campaign leads and ensuring that key activists feel supported and valued.
• Execute our county recruitment campaign, building delivery and door-knocking levels to increase campaign capacity to the volume required to sustain and grow local Liberal Democrat support in our target areas.
• Together with the county campaign team, monitor and review campaign data to inform decisions and strategy.
• Together with the county campaign team, set a county-wide messaging strategy and integrate this into each local team’s campaign.
• Together with the county campaign team, review key campaign developments and set targets.
• Work with local teams to produce and deliver a programme of doorstep communication with voters for each local campaign.
• Take a leading role in the production, coordination, and delivery of a county-wide literature plan – with shared, focused messaging and high-quality design and content.
• Work with commercial printers to secure bulk buy deals on printed literature and deliver the best possible value campaign.
• Work with local teams to ensure that members and activists are regularly contacted by phone to increase volunteer engagement and development.
• Attend other meetings and training sessions as required.

Person Specification

Essential

• Strong ability to organise and self-motivate, and to set your own programme of work to meet pre-agreed objectives.
• Skilled in handling multiple projects at the same time, ensuring workload is prioritised to meet stakeholder demands.
• Ability to plan out projects and deadline tasks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a high level of accuracy and compelling style.
• Experience of engaging and motivating volunteers. 
• An enthusiasm for developing the skills of others.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an ability to inspire and persuade.
• Excellent computer skills with up-to-date knowledge of social media and Microsoft Office. 
• Sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats.

Desirable

• Knowledge of and experience using Liberal Democrat IT packages, including Connect, Lighthouse and Affinity Publisher.
• Full, clean driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Experience of delivering training.
• Experience of planning projects or workstreams.
• A good understanding of messaging and graphic design in the political context.

Workplace 

Flexible: your working week will be split between being in local party offices, or working from home. You will also visit local parties around Hertfordshire, and may be expected to attend occasional staff meetings in Cambridge or London.

Key stakeholders

You will formally report to the party’s Regional Campaigns Manager and work closely with HC3, the County Coordinating Committee. Other stakeholders include the Campaign Chairs in each Local Party, Council Leaders and the Liberal Democrat MPs for St Albans and Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituencies.

How to apply:

Please read through the job description to learn more about the role before applying and take a few minutes to complete our Equality and Diversity Monitoring Forms (information from which is confidential and not shared with the panel), then proceed with your application.

Please submit:  

• A full CV of no more than two pages, with full employment history, and including a telephone number and email address
• 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.
• Details of two referees, including one from your current or most recent employer (if applicable).  

to Spencer Caminsky at spencer.caminsky@libdems.org.uk with the subject line: Application – Campaigns Officer (Herts).

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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