Conservative Campaign Headquarters
Position:
Social Action Manager
Summary
The Party is seeking to recruit a Social Action Manager, responsible for creating and executing campaigning activity at constituency and national level. The successful candidate will work with the Vice-Chairman responsible for Social Action and develop relationships throughout the Party in order to expand and develop the success of Social Action projects in recent years.
Description:
An important aspect of this role will be to forge links with third parties and develop ways of engaging sections of the electorate disinterested in conventional politics.
Working closely with the Voluntary Party and the campaigning team at CCHQ, the Social Action Manager will assist and encourage constituency associations, local councillors and candidates to embrace Social Action projects as an essential part of campaigning. The role will also include:
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The production of resources and campaigning materials relating to Social Action;
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Responsibility for the organisation of set-piece social action projects , for example at Party Conference; engaging the participation of senior Party figures and exploiting all related media opportunities;
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Guiding and advising local activists about setting up Social Action projects, promoting them locally and utilising success stories and promoting best practice.
The Social Action Manager must be in a position to stay overnight away from home.
If you have the skills required to succeed in this role, please download our application form. Please submit this to hr@conservatives.com or send to Lindsay Gordon, CCHQ, 30 Millbank, London SW1P 4DP by midday on 6th September 2010.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community. We value diversity and appoint on merit.
Please note that, due to the large amount of applications we receive, we are not able to acknowledge receipt of all applications. If you have not heard from us by 21st September 2010 please assume that, regrettably, your application has been unsuccessful this time.
Closing date:
6 September 2010