Responsibilities
• Drafting of high-quality parliamentary speeches, questions and contributions.
• Supporting the Members’ work and providing briefings for select committee, all party parliamentary groups and other meetings in Parliament.
• Undertake research on relevant subjects as directed.
• Work closely with the constituency office to share parliamentary activity and to feed constituency issues into parliamentary work.
• Give advice on policy issues.
• Respond to routine correspondence and enquiries.
• Develop and maintain current knowledge on relevant areas of parliamentary business including Motions, legislation, Hansard, debates etc.
• Have working knowledge of relevant legislation and upcoming parliamentary business.
• Monitoring and understanding of the parliamentary timetable to plan the members time and contributions.

Occasional out-of-hours work may be required.

Personal specification, knowledge, and experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good knowledge of UK Parliament and its procedures – experience working within Parliament or a comparable setting (e.g. local government) is desirable.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritise a demanding workload, meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• Highly motivated with the ability to take initiative and be responsible for own workload.