The Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors and Campaigners, to give it its Sunday name, is recruiting two paid Campaigns and Communications internships based in Manchester from next month to June next year.
From their site:
This is a full-time role, paid at the UK National Minimum Wage (£6.50 per hour for over 21 years olds), based at our Manchester city centre offices.
ALDC is the national organisation for Liberal Democrat councillors and campaigners. This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the work of the organisation in the run up to the 2015 General Election.
The successful applicants will be helping us with our campaigns output, our communications and social media, and also helping campaign ‘on the ground’ with one of our partner local parties in Greater Manchester.
Successful candidates must have sympathy with the aims and values of the Liberal Democrats.
The deadline for applications is Monday 22 September 2014.
Interviews will take place in central Manchester on Tuesday 30 September 2014.
You can find out more details, including how to apply, here.
There are also loads of campaigning jobs available on W4MP: David Laws, Mark Hunter, Mike Thornton, Tim Farron and Torridge and West Devon Liberal Democrats are all looking for organisers.
If you want a more traditional parliamentary job, Simon Wright and Roger Williams are looking for a secretary, Sarah Teather, Alison McInnes and Simon Wright seek caseworkers. There are few more diverse and gorgeous areas of the country than Brecon, Ellon and Brent.
Full details of all the jobs and instructions on how to apply can be found here.
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Is there some reason why the pay is the minimum wage?
It’s part of the party’s commitment to paid internships. They didn’t used to be paid at all.
So, instead of describing it as a temporary job, short term-contract etc we import a foreign name which suggests to young people they are getting something special. Hey presto – cheap labour! Great thinking batman.
For many jobs, there are some criteria which help set the pay rate. Some examples of criteria are:
> number of hours/days per week
> whether hours are standard, odd, flexible, predictable, etc
> degree of skills or previous knowledge/experience needed to do the job
> degree of commitment/focus/attention required
> degree of pleasantness/social status of job
> seniority/status relative to other jobs in the organization
> level of responsibility in relation to others in the organization, and to its customers
> degree of competition the employer faces to find suitable candidates
> value, to the employer, of the service provided by the employee
> whether employee is to provide own clothes, tools, training, etc
I wondered which of these or other criteria the LibDems considered when choosing that particular rate of pay, and why the living wage was considered too high? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2761712/Labour-force-firms-bidding-Government-contracts-pay-living-wage.html