Job details:

A well qualified and appropriately experienced person with excellent organisational, communication and IT skills is required to provide full-time administrative support in George Howarth’s constituency office.

Key responsibilities:

• Diary management – arranging meetings, visits and events
• Responding to correspondence, emails and telephone calls
• Updating website
• Attending meetings and surgeries and taking notes
• To develop a knowledge of parliamentary procedures, monitor parliamentary and media activity and brief MP
• Keep records and manage information in line with data protection legislation
• General office duties
• Assist with casework as required

Person specification:

• A graduate or with extensive relevant experience
• Well organised with ability to prioritise and work under pressure
• Possess excellent IT skills
• Able work both independently and as a member of a team
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with close attention to detail
• An ability to deal with a wide range of people with discretion and empathy
• Good understanding of political sensitivities and able to demonstrate commitment to aims and values of the Labour Party