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Reference: 60544

Date Added: 27 April 2017
Closing Date: 9 June 2017

Job Title: Communications Assistant

Working For: Dean Lockhart MSP (Mid-Scotland and Fife)

Location: Edinburgh

Salary: Negotiable and dependent on experience (part-time)

Length of Contract:

Job Details

Dean Lockhart MSP (Mid-Scotland and Fife) is looking for a diligent, enthusiastic and highly organised individual to join his team. The role is on a part-time basis working from the Scottish Parliament but will require some remote working in the member's regional office in Dunfermline.

Duties will include: 
Working with the member and his team to promote his parliamentary work by liasing with all sections of the media, producing high quality written material, maintaining relationships with local press, monitoring local press, updating website and some social media outlets and ensuring that the member is well briefed on issues affecting his region. 

You will need: 

  • strong organisational/administrative and IT skills with good attention to detail.
  • good communication skills.
  • good initative and problem solving. 
  • a flexible and adaptable pro-active approach to work. 
  • the ability to work well in a small team. 
  • knowledge of the Scottish political scene essential. 
  • sympathetic to the aims and values of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.

Closing Date: 9 June 2017

Interview/Start Dates

Interviews will be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time after the closing date. 

Application Details

Please send a CV and covering statement of no more than one side of A4, showing how you meet the above criteria, to thomas.heald@parliament.scot.

Website: http://www.deanlockhart.org.uk/about-dean-lockhart

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