Milton Keynes MP seeks full-time staff to help him run his constutiency, offering salaries of up to £57,000 a year
A city MP is advertising for two new staff members to help him with the workload of his constituency.
Chris Curtis, who is MP for Milton Keynes North. is seeking an office manager and offering a salary of between £33, 565, to £57,096.
He is also trying to recruit a ‘Constituency Support Officer, who will earn between £26,039 and £40,533 a year.
Mr Curtis describes the length contract as ‘permanent’ and says the salaries are In line with IPSA pay scales.
His ads appeared this week on w4mp, the working for MPs website.
They state: “Chris Curtis MP is looking to recruit an organised and highly motivated Office Manger to join his team. This is an excellent opportunity to join the office of an active constituency MP as Office Manager. The successful candidate will lead the administrative operation of a busy Parliamentary office, overseeing the office team, managing the budget and liaising with IPSA on financial and contractual matters.”
The successful candidate will have “strong organisational and people-management skills, sound judgement, and the ability to manage a varied workload, including delegated signoff on relevant areas of office business, in a fast-paced environment”.
They will “liaise with groups/personnel including at Westminster, within the constituency and the general public on the MP’s behalf as necessary”. the ad states.
Key responsibilities include dealing with security matters, keeping abreast of security guidance, maintaining the security system, liaising with external bodies and ensuring the office is fully equipped.
The office manager will have final signoff on all relevant delegated areas from the MP, for example constituent correspondence, states the advert.
Other duties include “horizon-scanning, anticipating what advice or action may be required, proactively identifying problems and resolving them and dentify ensuring the office team maintains and develops knowledge of relevant legislation.”
The details add: “There may be requirement for the role holder to work outside of the normal working hours, including attending events with the MP as required.”
The second role, Constituency Support Officer, would involve dealing with “large numbers of standard queries from members of the public by phone, email, social media or face to face” and drafting responses to these, states the adverts.
Other respsonsiblities include helping to plan surgeries and meetings, attending constituency meetings as appropriate, analysing patterns of enquiries and producing reports, ensuring record are kept an each case is dealt with promptly, sensitively, confidentially and accurately.
The closing date for appplications is August 14 and interviews will take place in Milton Keynes on August 20 and 21.
.Applications should be made by sending a CV and cover letter to [email protected]