Contract details
- Contract: Fixed term (maternity cover)
- Contract start: Monday 9 March 2026
- Contract end: Thursday 2 April 2027
- Location: London (hybrid, with required in-office days)
- Salary: £42,000 per annum, pro rata to the contract length
Application details
- Application deadline: 9am on Friday 2 January 2026
- Interviews: Tuesday 15 January 2026 in Parliament (London)
To apply for this role
- Read the person specification and job description
- Complete the application form.
- Email your application form and CV both in word document format to clive.lewis.mp@parliament.uk
- Use the subject line ‘Senior Parliamentary Assistant’
About the role
Clive Lewis MP is seeking a Senior Parliamentary Assistant to join his Westminster team for a fixed-term contract (maternity cover).
The roleholder will play an important role supporting the MP’s parliamentary work, delivering key projects and campaigns, and overseeing the day-to-day running of a busy Westminster office.
This is a multi-faceted role involving research, communications, and campaigns. The postholder needs exceptional organisational skill and a good understanding of how Parliament works. The ideal candidate has the ability to plan and deliver a wide range of high quality projects and campaigns.
To apply for this role, the postholder needs to be available to start on the advertised date, to complete handover and training.
The roleholder will report to and receive ongoing guidance from the Research Manager. They will also have access to ongoing training provided by the House of Commons.
What a typical day involves
- Meeting the MP and Research Manager to forward plan and review priorities.
- Monitoring parliamentary business and advising the MP and Research Manager on opportunities.
- Creating project and campaign plans to assist with shaping the MP’s work.
- Drafting communications materials, like government letters, policy emails, social media content, and statements.
- Delivering parliamentary activities like debates, questions, and roundtables.
- Preparing briefings to support the MP’s contributions in Parliament and the media.
- Meeting the constituency team to identify topical issues and plan activities.
Person specification
Skills and experience (essential)
- An understanding of how the UK Parliament works
- Strong political knowledge, understanding and judgement
- Experience of managing projects and / or campaigns
- Experience undertaking research and / or policy development
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organised, with excellent attention to detail
- Strong multi-tasking and time management skills
- Ability to work under own direction without supervision
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team
- Ability to deal with issues in a confidential and sensitive manner
- Sympathetic to the aims and values of Clive Lewis MP
Skills and experience (desirable)
- Experience of people management (either staff or volunteers)
- Detailed knowledge of UK Parliamentary processes and procedure
- Experience of delivering legislative campaigns in the UK Parliament
- Experience of delivering Parliamentary outputs, such as written questions, Early Day Motions etc
- Experience in media-related work
- Experience in social media communications
Role eligibility – security clearance
Upon appointment you will be required to comply with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, undertaken by the Members’ Staff Verification Office (MSVO).
To be eligible to apply for this role, Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) clearance is mandatory. Applicants for National Security Vetting are expected to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to allow meaningful security clearance to be carried out. This means having lived in the UK for at least three out of the last five years.
See Members’ Staff Verification Office (MSVO) page for further information.