Campaigns Organiser (Herefordshire)

Title: Campaigns Organiser

Employer: Herefordshire Liberal Democrats

Salary: £27,000 and reasonable travel expenses

Contract: Full-Time. Permanent, subject to satisfactory performance during first three months. Formal line management will be with the local party Chair.

Location: Herefordshire Lib Dems office, 54 St Owen Street, Hereford HR1 2PU and travel around the county.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week. It is expected that the Campaigns Organiser will assist with evening and weekend campaign activity, by agreement.  

Closing date: Monday 2 November at 5 pm

Interviews: We anticipate holding interviews on Thursday 19 and Friday 20 November

Expected Starting date: Monday 4 January 2027

Purpose of the job:

Do you want to help make history in Herefordshire? Do you want to play a leading part in building up the Herefordshire local party and re-establishing the Lib Dems as the main challengers across the county?

The Herefordshire Liberal Democrats are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and self-motivated Campaigns Organiser to help us build the campaigning operation we need to win.

You will work closely with the local party Chair, the Elections Officer, the campaign team, councillors, and volunteers to turn our campaign plans into action. That will include organising voter-contact activity, recruiting and supporting volunteers, organising campaign literature, helping to coordinate delivery networks and ensuring campaign data is collected and used effectively.

We are looking for someone with exceptional communication and people skills who enjoys making things happen. You will be comfortable taking responsibility, juggling competing priorities and keeping campaigns moving, while creating a welcoming and positive environment for volunteers.  You will be highly motivated to hit targets and proactively get various tasks and activities done.

This is an opportunity to take on substantial responsibility within a growing campaign operation, develop your campaigning and campaign management skills, and help build the organisation needed to elect more Lib Dems locally and to increase our general election vote, so that we once again can win Parliamentary elections in Herefordshire.

Job Description: 

• Deliver campaigning activity across Herefordshire target seats, including canvassing, action days, voter contact and literature delivery.
• Lead, train and support volunteers, building confident teams able to run campaigning activity independently.
• Grow and sustain the volunteer base, ensuring new volunteers are recruited, welcomed, matched to suitable tasks and kept engaged.
• Building organisational capacity in Target Wards, including recruiting deliverers and poster sites. 
• Organising election material, assisting with the coordination and delivery of campaign literature.
• Manage campaign data, ensuring accurate data entry, supporting volunteers doing data work and using data to inform targeting.
• Carry out such other duties as your line manager may reasonably require to further effective campaigning, communication and organisation in the area, including appropriate administrative tasks.

Person Specification:

The following criteria are considered essential:

• Ability to commute to the Lib Dem office in Hereford.
• Strong organisation and self-management skills. The ability to work unsupervised and to effectively prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate confidently and sensitively with a wide range of people. 
• Good written skills, with a high level of accuracy and a compelling style.
• A positive, practical and solutions-focused attitude.
• Resilience and the ability to remain organised when working under pressure. 
• The ability to build and maintain the confidence of a wide range of people, such as volunteers, candidates, elected representatives and other stakeholders.
• A strong drive to recruit, motivate, organise and retain volunteers.
• Good digital skills and a willingness to learn new software and systems. Confidence using, or willingness to learn, tools including social media, websites, desktop-publishing software and digital content-production tools.
• An interest in UK politics.
• Sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats.
• An ability to meet deadlines.

The following criteria are considered desirable:

• Previous experience in political or election campaigning.
• Experience in organising or managing volunteers.
• Experience using Liberal Democrat campaigning systems or similar political databases.
• Experience in digital political campaigning.
• Access to a car would be an advantage but is not essential.

However, it is not essential to have done this before.  What matters is that you are motivated, well organised and eager to learn.  You will receive full training and ongoing support. You will take on real responsibility from the start and your work will make a real difference to people’s lives and to the success of the campaigns you help run.

General duties

In addition you will:

• Adhere to all health and safety and fire regulations, cooperate with the local party to maintain good standards of health and safety.
• Uphold ethical and professional standards, not behave in a way likely to bring the party into disrepute.
• Promote and sustain a responsible attitude towards equal opportunities and diversity within the party
• Maintain the security of our data by adhering to Party guidelines and all relevant legislation.

How to apply

Please submit a CV (no more than two pages), a covering letter explaining how you meet the person specification. (no more than one page), and contact details for two referees, including one from your current or most recent employer.  If you would prefer us not to contact them until a later stage of the selection process, please let us know.

Applications should be emailed to: Julia Fletcher at chair@herefordlibdems.org.uk with the subject line ‘Application – Herefordshire Campaign Organiser’

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.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and applicants are encouraged to inform us if any reasonable adjustments are needed to be made during any part of the recruitment process.