Maria Eagle MP is looking for a constituency assistant to join her constituency office for 24 hours a week. The successful candidate will work on community engagement and local campaigns. They will also assist the constituency support manager.

Duties include:

• Organise appointments, meetings, and events in the constituency for Maria to attend
• Liaise with groups and stakeholders in the constituency
• Deal with large numbers of standard queries, as well as assisting on more complex cases from members of the public by phone, email, social media or face to face
• Assisting with Maria’s communication channels – including website, video and social media
• Ensure records are kept and information managed confidentially in line with the data protection legislation
• Respond to correspondence from constituents on a wide range of policy matters including campaign emails

Person Specification

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  
• An awareness of sensitivities of working within a political environment
• The ability to manage own workload, prioritise and work under pressure
• Excellent IT, administrative and organisational skills
• The ability to work flexibly as part of a small team
• A polite a professional manner
• An understanding of GDPR
• A full clean driving licence (desirable)
• An understanding of and sympathy with the aims and goals of the Labour Party