National Incumbency Project Manager - Campaigning

We are seeking a highly motivated Incumbency Specialist to join our team and play a key role in supporting sitting Conservative MPs and elected representatives. This role is central to helping strengthen, develop and promote their incumbency through effective, digitally‑led campaigning.

Working closely with Members of Parliament and, when required, with other incumbent elected representatives such as Metropolitan Mayors and Police & Crime Commissioners you will help plan, develop and project‑manage campaigns designed to raise their profile positively within their constituencies or electoral areas. You will also contribute to identifying best practice and ensuring it is shared and implemented effectively.

This is a dynamic, hands‑on role that requires creativity, strong organisational skills and the ability to work collaboratively across the Campaigning Department and wider organisation.

• The effectiveness and engagement levels of incumbency campaigns.
• Your ability to plan activity proactively and identify opportunities to enhance incumbents’ local profile.
• Your capability to work successfully with internal teams, departments, and elected representatives.
• Your use of digital best practice in campaigning.
• Your contribution to project‑managing key national campaigns.

Role responsibilities
Area of responsibility
• Understanding and articulating the incumbency challenges to incumbent MPs.
• Advise incumbent MPs on a range of strategies to support them in their role dependent on Seat-specific factors and challenges – as well as the Party’s strategic positioning.
• Working with MPs to produce politically relevant community engagement campaigns.
• To ensure a good communication between internal stakeholders
• Production of the regular Incumbency and Opposition Watch bulletin and templates; sharing campaigning best-practice, when required, across the seats with which you are working.
• Advising the incumbent MP and Party on campaigning and messaging opportunities provided by opposition campaigning and literature etc.
• Support the Director of Field Campaigning with project managing the Department’s reporting needs.
• Elements of this role may incur candidate expense during a regulated period. Guidance on the costings of this will be provided but it is up to the role holder to seek Election Agents’ authorisation before undertaking any tasks with election expense implications.

Other
• Assist with ad-hoc projects as required by the needs of the team and the Party.
• Provide holiday cover for other members of the team in accordance with the holiday cover schedule.
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships with key stakeholders
• Keep any professional qualifications up to date.
Professional experience and qualifications
• Had a role in at least one General Election campaigns; either as part of the CCHQ Campaigning Department or employed by a Conservative Party Association, Federation or Grouping.
• Have a good understanding and experience of CCHQ structure, processes and dedicated campaigning methods, data bases and digital procedures.
• Have completed, successfully, all training units required of them whilst a CCHQ employee.
• Experience of what a good digital campaign looks like.
• A sound knowledge of current affairs and political awareness is essential.

Skills required

The ability to build and maintain rapport with MPs, campaign teams and senior Party professionals under pressure and to short deadlines.
• The ability to juggle and intermediate between competing priorities and direction.
• Excellent relationship building and influencing skills with the ability to tailor message and style appropriately
• Creative, with a strong ability to develop and implement innovative solutions to problems and opportunities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to organise and prioritise a demanding workload personally.
• Ability to use a variety of digital tools.
• A strong understanding of Parliament, its structure and its role of Parliamentarians and their role in establishing incumbency campaigning.
• A personal commitment to the values of the Conservative Party

The Conservative Party Values
OPPORTUNITY & RESPECT FOR EVERYONE: We value diversity by embracing ideas and experiences from people of all different backgrounds, creating an inclusive culture across our professional, voluntary, and elected Party. Through courtesy and respect, we can support our people to be at their best and develop working practices in an environment where everyone can be themselves.
WORKING TOGETHER TO DELIVER CHANGE: We constantly seek to improve and are pro-active in all that we do, being bold with our ideas and seeking out new opportunities. We are one team; the professional, voluntary, and elected Conservative Party working together, where everyone can contribute, and all feedback is welcome. We get things done by having confidence in our abilities and trusting the skills of those around us.
VALUING FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: We value freedom by empowering people to do the right thing and hold ourselves accountable for the decisions we take. We act with integrity and communicate honestly; this is at the foundation of the relationships we build.
RELEASING ASPIRATION & REWARDING EFFORT: We value our people by recognising and encouraging talent through training, development and creating opportunities. We strive to reward achievement. Knowing that exceptional performance drives our team success.