Volunteer Roles

So you want to help us build a new kind of politics? Great - there’s lots to do! Check out some of the specific roles we’re looking for below. Or, if none of those are suitable, introduce yourself and tell us what you’re good at.

• Treasurer

Treasurer

As party treasurer, you would be helping us with one of the most crucial aspects of running a small political party. Much of our efforts are focused on fundraising, and there are various rules that we must abide by when fundraising as well as spending that money. As treasurer you’ll be helping us to;

• ensure our fundraising efforts are legal,
• collect all the relevant data we need to from donators,
• properly report donations to the relevant authorities,
• arrange publication of all our donations (becase we’re open!),
• ensure all our spending is legal and logged,
• publicise our spending (you guessed it - open!),
• report our spending as required by relevant authorities.
• plan future spending, setting and tracking budgets for election campaigns,
• authorising election spending.

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

National Campaign Manager

When we run national campaigns, such general election or specific issue campaigns, we’ll need someone to co-ordinate everything. This could include;

• managing campaign-specific roles and responsibilities,
• working with the treasurer on fundraising,
• co-ordinating local campaign managers where necessary,
• making sure the communications campaign is on track by working with the communications manager,
• setting budgets with the treasurer and making sure all spending is recorded.

Depending on how many people are available for a campaign, the campaign manager might be a very hands-on role, so one of the tasks of a campaign manager is to recruit new volunteers!

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

Local Campaign Managers

Much like the national campaign manager, a local campaign manager helps run the campaign but on a local level. Typically the local campaign manager will be the election agent for a candidate, which has specific legal requirements, but that’s not always the case. A local campaign manager will;

• manage a candidate’s to-do list,
• work with the communications manager to run communications with local media,
• tracking spending and making sure it’s inline with the budget, and properly recorded,

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

Policy Researchers

Our manifesto, full of contributions by lots of different people, while full of great contributions, still has a lot of gaps. We’re looking for people to research specific policy areas that we’re currently missing and form a suggestion that can be contributed to the manifesto. There’s a bunch of policy areas ready to explore, and your research should;

• look for the evidence,
• take in multiple points of view and published research,
• produce a policy proposal that meets the manifesto principles.

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

Communications Manager

When we run campaigns, getting the message out is one of the most important things. Working with the campaign manager, a communications manager will;

• collate a list of press contacts,
• write and distribute press releases,
• get and stay in touch with relevant journalists to help ensure we get adequate press coverage,
• arrange interviews and hustings, where appropriate, for candidates,
• co-ordinate social media strategy.

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

Social Media Manager

During a campaign, social media is one of our most powerful tools and it can easily take up a lot of time, so we’re keen to have one individual take care of it. A social media manager will;

• work with the communications manager on overall strategy,
• help election candidates with social media coverage, including any training and set-up needs,
• monitor social media channels and engage where appropriate,
• develop our own “shareable” to try and encourage people to share our message.

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

Events Co-ordinator

One of our aspirations is to run regular local events. We also occasionally take part in events arranged by others and arranging this can be haphazard, causing us to miss opportunities. An events manager would;

• help local supporters arrange, run and promote local meetups,
• look out for relevant events, such as conferences or hustings, where we could send a representative,
• recruit representatives to attend events,
• work with the communications manager to promote our events and any events we attend.

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!

Canvassers/Leafletters

Possibly one of the most important roles. When we have candidates in an election, we need to spread the word and one of the best ways to do that is by distributing leaflets to, and visiting, as many households as we can in the area. This is really, really hard when a candidate is the only local party supporter. We need people who are local, or nearby, to our candidates and can spare some time to help deliver leaflets and talk to people about what Something New stands for.

Interested in this role? Let us know by e-mailing [email protected] with a little bit about you, any relevant experience and why you’re interested. We will respond!