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Reference: 43550

Date Added: 19 December 2013
Closing Date: 8 January 2014

Job Title: Senior/Parliamentary Assistant

Working For: Luciana Berger MP (Liverpool, Wavertree)

Location: London

Salary: Competitive in line with IPSA pay scales and dependent on experience

Length of Contract:

Job Details

I am looking for a right hand man or woman in Westminster.

We are a friendly, committed, innovative team. We are also well integrated - the Westminster office interacts with the constituency office: Sheila, Denise, James and Paul on a daily basis.

You must be very motivated – there is so much to do. You must also be good at prioritising, planning and juggling lots of things at once in order to help me in my task of best representing my amazing constituents. If you don’t like deadlines/are not a completer-finisher this role is not for you. Press and speech writing experience is an absolute must. As is having a sense of humour, bags of confidence and political judgement. An interest in public health policy is desirable. You don’t have to have worked in Parliament to do this job but please share any parliamentary experience you have. You should be a graduate with a very minimum of a year’s work experience.

You must be sympathetic to the aims and values of the Labour Party and the Co-operative movement.

Upon appointment you will be required to apply for security clearance, undertaken by the Security Vetting and Pass Office. See Members’ Staff Security Clearance page for further info. MPs generally pay staff in accordance with IPSA guidelines.

Closing Date: 8 January 2014

Interview/Start Dates

The closing date is 5pm on Wednesday 8th January 2014.

Shortlisted candidates will need to be available for interview in Westminster on Monday 13th January 2014.

Start date as soon as possible.

Application Details

Please send your CV and covering letter (maximum 2 pages each) to sheila.murphy@parliament.uk.

Please include in the letter why it is that you would like the job and particularly in my team, why you believe you’re qualified for the position and what your availability is.

For more information please contact Sheila at sheila.murphy@parliament.uk or call 0151 228 1628.

Website: http://www.lucianaberger.com

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