Labour for the Long Term aims to help Labour develop policies that ensure a resilient and sustainable future. Our policy areas include:

• Pandemic prevention
• Climate change
• Emerging tech
• Nuclear conflict

The role:

We are hiring someone to help establish and oversee the organisation. This will be on a consultancy basis, one year fixed with strong prospects for renewal.

The post-holder will work closely with our committee to develop a strategy, identify opportunities for growth and reach out to MPs.

The role is 3-5 days a week with room for flexibility.

Job description:

As we are a new organisation, there is some leeway in shaping the role, which will include:

• Organisation building: setting up systems to ensure the smooth running of LLT, including stakeholder management, social media strategy, briefing templates and organisational structure.
• Research: commissioning, writing and editing policy briefings for MPs on our priority policy areas.
• Communications: maintaining regular emails to stakeholders, social media and the website.
• Working with the committee to build strong relationships with MPs.
• Organising events in Parliament and at party conference
• Assisting with administrative duties including financial reporting.

Person specification

Essential

• Self-starter: flexible, willing to learn and take your own initiative.
• Passionate about the policy issues: aware of long-term policy priorities and motivated to make a difference.
• Political or policy experience: e.g. in an MP’s office, think tank, civil service, public affairs or NGO.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• A willingness to perform more typically ‘senior-level’ tasks, e.g. representing the organisation and setting a strategy, as well as more typically ‘junior-level’ tasks, e.g. running the website and editing briefings.
• Supportive of the Labour Party.

Desirable

• Relevant policy expertise
• Experience of policy research
• Experience of working with MPs

We are especially keen to receive applications from groups which are under-represented in Westminster, including women, ethnic minorities and marginalised communities.