Regional Leads - North West and Greater London

The Centre for Progressive Change is looking for two full-time Regional Leads, in Greater London and the North West, to join our team. These roles will be in charge of moving MPs in their region to actively support our campaigns in parliament through effective advocacy, community organising and mobilising. They will also grow our power in the region by building regional relationships, taking effective regional action and bringing in money to hire regional campaign staff.

At the Centre for Progressive Change we build campaigns for national policy change. We do this through effective advocacy, community organising, press, mobilising, business engagement and campaign research. We are a small dynamic team, punching well above our weight. 

Over the last two years we have built the Safe Sick Pay campaign - a campaign for Statutory Sick Pay reform. We have had huge successes including gaining the backing of 95 cross-party MPs for the reforms, securing at least two policy reforms in five of the manifestos during the electing including in Labour's and built a wide national coalition of health organisations, business groups, trade unions and others. 

The Regional Leads will be in charge of the campaign strategy and activities in their area to secure the backing of cross-party MPs. They will be part of a team of Regional and National Leads across the country that together are helping secure progressive national policies on economic, social and environmental issues. 

Position: Regional Lead

Responsible to: Executive Director

Location: 

For North West Regional Lead: Work from home, with a potential option of a hot desking space in the North West. The successful candidate must be based in the North West and be able to travel to different parts of the region and the country. 

For Greater London Regional Lead: Work in the office in Victoria or in the field 3 days a week. 

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (full-time)

Salary: £45,000–£50,000 per annum

Annual leave:  40 days annual leave including bank holidays

How to apply:

To apply please download and fill in the application form on the website.

The deadline to submit your application form is Wednesday 18th September, 9am. 

Those shortlisted will be invited to a first interview on Monday 30th September online. A second interview will be held for successful applicants on Monday 7th October in person at Victoria SPACES, London.

Job Responsibilities

They will:

1. Create and implement a strategic plan to win over the majority of MPs in the North West region to actively support our campaigns in Parliament.

2. Use advocacy, community organising and mobilising to bring MPs on board with our campaigns across the region.

3. Build relationships with the key organisations in the region and engage them in our national campaigns.

4. Have, and keep updated, a regional Power Structure Analysis for each of our campaigns. 

5. Carry out listening campaigns, with regional partners, of constituents in the North West to inform our future campaign focus and policy demands. 

6. Build relationships with key businesses in the region to bring them on board with our campaigns and support them to put pressure on the MPs. 

7. Run our general election campaign for the region and bring Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) on board with our campaign.

8. Gather evidence on parts of the campaign so that we can learn which of our actions are being most effective - this will involve some standardising of the work. 

9. Raise £95k in funding for the North West region, including for additional campaigning staff, and manage the regional budget.

10. Recruit, retain and develop staff.

These responsibilities may change as the team grows, as the political context changes and as we shift our campaign focus. 

Skills, Experience and Qualities 

Requirements

You should have:

1. A proven track record of winning regional campaigns.

2. A proven track record of bringing cross-party MPs on board with a campaign and effectively taking action together.

3. Good existing relationships in the North West region. 

4. Excellent advocacy, mobilising or community organising experience. 

5. An ability to be strategic and pragmatic, and take the most effective route to our legislative goals.

6. An excellent track record of persuading different types of people in senior positions to support and actively engage in a campaign. 

7. A demonstrated ability to raise £95k a year.

8. Experience of managing a budget and staff. 

9. Excellent skills at self-directed work, problem solving and dealing with complexity, as well as the ability to be flexible and work in a startup environment with high levels of uncertainty and small campaign budgets, where everyone has to collaborate to get things done outside of their job role.

10. A commitment to the Centre for Progressive Change’s strategy, values and culture.

Desired (not required)

1. Expertise in community organising.

2. Knowledge of the political landscape in the North West and the key political power players. 

You may not have all of this experience but if you feel confident that you could fulfill the job responsibilities then we wold encourage you to apply.