Information

Closing date: Wednesday 27 August at 11:59

Interviews: Week commencing 8th September 2025

Job title: Parliamentary Assistant for Clive Lewis MP (Norwich South)

Location: London (hybrid, with required in-office days and occasional travel to the constituency)

Salary: £33,000 – £36,000 dependent on experience

Contract: Permanent, subject to 6 month probation

Job description: here

Experience and skills requirements: here

Scroll down for details on how to apply. Completion of an application form is required in addition to providing a CV.

Role details

Clive Lewis MP (Norwich South) is looking for a Parliamentary Assistant to join his Westminster team. The successful candidate will manage office administration and Clive’s Westminster schedule to ensure an effective, responsive setup in a fast-moving political environment. This position blends administration with policy and research support, assisting Clive to spot and raise issues through parliamentary monitoring, and actions like correspondence with Ministers and tabling questions.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, with strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills. This role is ideal for someone looking to build a solid foundation in organisational operations, administrative support, and research, and who is curious about how an effective office helps deliver political impact.

What this role involves

Please read the job description to understand the duties in full.

In summary, this role involves:

• Managing Clive’s diary and schedule, such as booking meetings and rooms, making travel arrangements, and rearranging commitments to fit around parliamentary business.
• Administration of the Parliament office, such as managing the inbox, donation due diligence and declarations, stationery orders, and resolving IT queries.
• Supporting the delivery of parliamentary interventions, such as monitoring parliamentary business, drafting oral and written Parliamentary questions, preparing briefing notes, doing research, and clipping interventions to create social media posts.
• Supporting and organising events in Parliament, such as assisting the MP by writing notes at meetings, booking rooms, building databases of event invitees, drafting event invitations, and creating social media posts.
• Drafting correspondence for by the Parliamentary and Constituency team, such as letters to Ministers and replies to policy case work from constituents

What this role might look like day-to-day:

• Reading, actioning, and filing emails in the Parliament inbox.
• Phoning a Norwich community organisation to agree details for a roundtable Clive is hosting in Parliament.
• Meeting and greeting guests ahead of engagements hosted by Clive.
• Taking notes and photos at a speaking engagement, then writing a post for the website and social media.
• Clipping and subtitling a video of a speech, and making a social media post.
• Drafting an email to constituents about an action Clive has taken in Parliament.

Role requirements: Experience and Skills

You don’t have to have worked in politics or Parliament before. We’re looking for relevant and transferable skills and experience. This role is suitable for someone who has at least 1 year of experience in a relevant role.

When you write your application, these are the key skills and competencies you will be assessed for:

Experience

• Experience in administration and/or operations: You’ve worked in a setting where you’ve done administrative or operational tasks. For example, organising events, writing meeting notes, or drafting letters.
• Experience in written and interpersonal communications: You’ve written materials that are clear, persuasive, and the right tone for different audiences. You have no problem picking up the phone.
• Experience of successfully owning a task or project: You can demonstrate that you’ve worked with minimal supervision to see through a task or project from start to finish, meeting a desired outcome.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment: You’ve worked to tight deadlines, and can juggle competing priorities, solve problems under pressure, and adapt quickly.

Skills

• Highly organised: You can manage your own time, prioritise effectively and keep to realistic timetables. You can plan ahead, anticipating upcoming needs.
• Attention to detail: Able to fact-check, verify sources, proof-read, and handle sensitive information with care.
• Problem-solving: You can think on your feet. When something doesn’t go to plan your instinct is to ask: ‘What can I do to fix this?’ and then make it happen.
• Collaborative: Able to work in a team and with external stakeholders, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills – online and in person.
• Identify with the aims and values of Clive Lewis MP: You get where Clive is coming from – on climate, fairness, and democracy. You want to help him put those priorities into action.

How to apply

Email your CV (max 2 pages) and a completed application form [download here] to clive.lewis.mp@parliament.uk

Use the subject line: ‘Parliament Assistant 2025’

Ensure your CV and application form answers are tailored to experience and skills requirements (here).

We actively seek applications from people with backgrounds that are underrepresented in politics. We welcome people to apply who can demonstrate their aptitude, even if a career in politics has so far been closed off to you.

Security and vetting

Upon appointment you will be required to apply for security clearance, undertaken by the Security Vetting and Pass Office. This includes the requirement to have lived in the UK for three out of the last five years. See Members’ Staff Security Clearance page for further info.

Using AI in your application

We encourage applicants to write their own applications and minimise the use of generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT). We’re not looking for polished perfection, we’re looking for authenticity, judgement, and a sense of who you are. Applications that feel overly generic or AI-generated may be at a disadvantage.