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Vacancies are indicated next to each role where the position is available. If you would like to be on the committee you can join one of our meetings or contact us via the online form

Local Party Chair

The Chair has the key role of providing leadership, and chairing monthly meetings of members. They will also prepare agendas, draft papers and strategies. This is the person who drives the party forwards by ensuring activities are delivered, addressing arising problems, ensuring appropriate conduct, ensuring devised strategies are followed and generally accepting high level responsibility for the party.

• Chairs meetings.
• Chief arbitrator.
• Ensures equal opportunity.
• Access to membership lists.
• Sits on Wales Green Party Council as a local party representative.

The role suits a hardworking and energetic person who is a capable public speaker, able to impartially resolve conflict and understand others, maintain a business-like approach at meetings and develop an ‘overview’ understanding of the big issues faced by the area. This role is demanding and requires a person able to dedicate sufficient time and emotional energy.

Treasurer

The treasurer manages the party bank account and finances (usually with at least one other signatory) and this involves administrating all party spending and overseeing any deposits made into the bank account. They would normally present a short financial report at party meetings and produce an annual set of accounts to be presented at the AGM. Other duties of the treasurer include budget planning, overseeing election spending, provision of financial guidance to other officers, facilitating donations to the party creating mechanisms through which this can happen such as paypal, standing orders and crowd funding. The treasurer also has an important role in monitoring and reporting on all election expenditure, keeping financial records for all expenditure over £20 during an election period, and completing election expenditure returns to be sent to national office.

They will also usually work closely with the Election Agent and candidates to ensure that election spending and donation rules are followed, For example, undertaking permissibility checks on all donations over £500 to campaign funds, and over £50 donations to all individual candidates’ campaigns. The membership officer also chairs meetings when necessary.

• Acts as vice-chair.
• Chief financial responsibility.
• Takes the lead on planning budgets.
• Responsible for election expenses.

The position of treasurer is very important and a competent treasurer can have a transformative effect on the achievements of the local party. This role requires an organised person who pays attention to detail and who thinks creatively about resource related issues. Basic mathematical and spreadsheet management skills are essential. Some accounting background can be useful, but is not necessary.

Co-Ordinator / Secretary – Vacancy

The main responsibility of the co-ordinator is to take minutes of meetings and make them available for members. They need to be someone who attends meetings regularly, is reliable in getting messages out on time, and is able to be concise and clear in putting down the actions that are required. The co-ordinator also takes a lead on responding to public and external enquiries.

• Prepares minutes.
• Responsible for external communications.

This role requires an organised person with good writing and interpretation skills, able to identify key issues, then make accurate and clear written records.

Nominating Officer / Elections Officer – Vacancy

The nominating officer is the person who acts as a candidate’s agent during an election providing the candidate with advice regarding legal conduct during an election and registering the candidate to compete. Their rights and responsibilities are defined in law and in practice they have to be appointed by the candidate or, at some PR elections, by the list of candidates. They certify candidates so that they can use an official Green Party description on the ballot paper, and request that a party emblem appears on it. The election agent is also entitled to have copies of the electoral register and updates on a year-round basis. Another important aspect of this role is organizing internal elections, for example for officer posts at the AGM or when selecting a candidate for an election. * Help candidates navigate electoral requirements.
* Take the lead in screening candidates.
* Responsible for internal elections.

The role requires a person dedicated to the progress of the party and prepared to devote some time towards supporting the ambitions of other people. It is a selfless role and require requiring tenacity, attention to detail and knowledge of relevant legislation.

Area Campaign Manager

Campaigning is the ‘bread and butter’ of local party activity and is the primary means of achieving desirable change. It brings together many of the activities conducted by local parties such as working with local media, exploiting digital media opportunities, producing leaflets and other
printed material, lobbying local organisations and most importantly, working alongside your electorate. Area campaign managers work alongside issue campaigners to develop a strategy and set of policy priorities for local election campaigns, but focus on electoral strategy rather than individual campaigns. They’re responsible for the year-round work required to win elections, including developing a Target-to-Win strategy, organizing volunteers, designing election leaflets and maintaining canvassing databases.

• Co-ordinates election strategy.
•  Organizes and motivates volunteers.
• Produces election material and maintains canvassing database.
• Tie in events and issue campaigns to broader strategy.

Campaigners need a wide range of skills and capabilities. They need to be good planners and assertive organisers and motivators, and they need to be passionate but caring and dedicated to making positive change. Campaigners also need good written and verbal communications skills as they will
have to produce campaign literature and vocalise concerns to a wide range of audiences – some hostile. They need to have excellent listening skills to pick up on local issues, and they need to integrate information and evidence from a range of different sources and formulate practical solutions

Membership Officer – Vacancy

The primary function of this post is to administrate the membership records, taking a lead in welcoming new members and chasing up lapsing members. They’re responsible for communicating news and events to members, and ensuring good contacts between members and the committee.

• Engages members.
• Access to membership lists.
• Responsible for internal communications.

The Membership Secretary needs to be organised with good attention to detail, and able to exercise good judgement with regards communications released by the party. They require good interpersonal skills as they will be the first contact for many new members. In addition, some affinity with databases or contact management systems would be helpful.

Media Officer – Vacancy

This role includes producing press releases following events or during campaigns, acting as the local party contact for the media. Managing social media content for consistency and to advertise events is a constant role, although social media will never form the main thrust of a campaign. The media officer will also work with the campaign managers to produce materials such as leaflets, and are advised to check any letters or other publicity that is put out on behalf of the local party by any other member for messaging consistency.

• Produce press releases.
• Manage social media.
• Aid in designing campaign literature.

The media officer role is best suited to someone with direct experience of producing press releases or working within a communications role. It requires a person with good written and spoken communication skills who is able to think and communicate often under pressure. Technical skills in website administration and publishing software are very useful, as is the ability to create written content for both digital and printed media.

Social Secretary – Vacancy

Parties are frequently involved in events such as such as stalls, demos, social events, debates and film nights, where members and the public can meet in a more relaxed manner and enjoy themselves. These events can often be useful ways of raising funds essential to the effective running of the local party. Fundraising can also include setting up standing orders and crowd-funding pages. The social secretary therefore plays a crucial role both in increasing the engagement of members and securing funding for future events and campaigning. They need to work closely with the chair, membership officer and campaign managers to ensure that events contribute to the strategic direction of the party.

• Organizes social events.
• Takes a lead in fundraising.
• Tie in events to broader strategy.

Social secretaries need to be organised, good networkers and have a reasonable knowledge of the issues and activities associated with different sorts of events. Depending on the scale and type of event, it may involve booking facilities, consideration of Health and Safety, consideration of inclusion, stewarding and working alongside other agencies. They need to be persuasive in order to present a convincing argument to potential donors for why money should be given to the local party; many candidates build their funding case around the issue based campaigns they are delivering. In addition, social secretaries need to be creative especially when organising fund raising events which might include concerts, jumble sales, auctions etc.

Issue Campaign Manager – Vacancy

Campaigning is the ‘bread and butter’ of local party activity and is the primary means of achieving desirable change. It brings together many of the activities conducted by local parties such as working with local media, exploiting digital media opportunities, producing leaflets and other printed material, lobbying local organisations and most importantly, working alongside your electorate. Issue campaigners work alongside area managers to develop a strategy and set of policy priorities for local election campaigns, but focus on specific issue campaigns rather than electoral strategy. The Green Party of England and Wales has a campaigns committee which organises campaigns for all members to get involved in, and the campaigns lead can act as a link with this team. In addition, your local party will almost certainly get asked to become involved in campaigns by local pressure groups, and you will need to be able to respond to these.

• Pick up on and develop local campaigns.
• Organize national issue campaigns locally.
• Tie in issue campaigns to broader strategy.

Campaigners need a wide range of skills and capabilities. They need to be good planners and assertive organisers and motivators, and they need to be passionate but caring and dedicated to making positive change. Campaigners also need good written and verbal communication skills as they will have to produce campaign literature and vocalise concerns to a wide range of audiences – some hostile. They need to have excellent listening skills to pick up on local issues, and they need to integrate information and evidence from a range of different sources and formulate practical solutions