Key Responsibilities

• Help deliver the seat support programme agreed between LDHQ and the West Midlands Regional Party, with a particular focus on the Development and Start-Up seats
• To lead on making sure every voter in the West Midlands Region has a Liberal Democrat candidate to vote for in the Local Elections
• To support and assist our local campaign teams to develop their skills and campaigning, and to win elections, by:
• Technical - helping campaigners with Connect, Lighthouse, Affinity Publisher, Fleet and other systems/platforms both personally and directing them to relevant help within the Party;
• Literature - helping campaigners with content, style and online composition;
• Training – leading regional training events and actively promoting local campaigners participating online and in person
• Membership - supporting local teams to recruit new members and activists to grow their local party
• Manage a programme of Regional Member Comms, including the writing, design and distribution of regular all-member emails with engaging content, graphics and video content.
• Assist in the coordination of the work of regional and local campaign staff.
• Work with local parties to identify ways of increasing the diversity of membership, and increase the diversity of candidates by working with local parties to remove barriers to standing, to include support to Local Parties in the production of their Diversity Plans.

Person Specification

Essential
1. Sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats
2. Good organisation and planning skills to manage a varied work-load and projects
3. The ability and commitment to support the region at all levels to build a more diverse active membership and to create a positive, welcoming and motivating climate for all
4. An understanding of the need to build a more diverse party at all levels and to work with national, regional and local party diversity representatives to establish a more diverse Party.
5. Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
6. Good IT skills, and the ability to learn new systems quickly and support others to learn these
7. The ability to work with, and motivate, volunteers and teams ensuring that a commitment to diversity is embedded.

8.Ability to work without immediate supervision to deliver agreed objectives.

9. Able to work flexibly, including weekends and evenings.