Get involved
Volunteer
Volunteer roles within our team allow individuals to vote on our decisions, contribute to policy development, and build valuable professional skills. Volunteering with us is a great way to gain real experience in policymaking and campaigning. All of our roles are remote, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and levels of experience.
Apply to join
You can apply to join our team by filling in the form below. You must have signed up as a member using our “Join” page under “Get involved.” You can only apply for one role at a time.
Reasons to join
Learn new skills
Our volunteers gain hands-on experience in areas such as graphic design, article writing, video and podcast editing, and policymaking. These opportunities are open to everyone, regardless of prior experience, and our dedicated Training Hub helps you get started quickly.
Shape opinion
Our team works to influence public discourse and shape political thinking. Volunteering with us gives you the opportunity to contribute to policies that have been adopted by political parties and to gain a greater understanding of the policymaking process.
Write articles and papers
Members of our team can write papers and articles. Our papers often include forewords written by politicians or candidates, and our articles are read by policymakers and academics.
Learn new skills
Our volunteers gain hands-on experience in areas such as graphic design, article writing, video and podcast editing, and policymaking. These opportunities are open to everyone, regardless of prior experience, and our dedicated Training Hub helps you get started quickly.
Shape opinion
Our team works to influence public discourse and shape political thinking. Volunteering with us gives you the opportunity to contribute to policies that have been adopted by political parties and to gain a greater understanding of the policymaking process.
Write articles and papers
Members of our team can write papers and articles. Our papers often include forewords written by politicians or candidates, and our articles are read by policymakers and academics.
Where team members work
Volunteering with us has helped former and current members build careers in charities, companies, and public service. Some members also volunteer with us while working for other organisations. An organisation being shown below does not constitute an endorsement.
Administration vacancies
Voluntary
Deputy Director (Internal)
Our Deputy Director for Internal manages our team members focused on internal work. In their role, they help to:
- Work on our long-term goals for our internal work.
- Coordinate the work of our team with roles focusing on internal work on a day-to-day basis.
- Set areas of focus for papers, articles, policies, programmes and alterations to key documents.
- Update our Director on our internal activities.
- Temporarily take over the role of Director if they are away or if the position becomes vacant.
On average, this role takes around five hours a week.
Voluntary
Head of Public Affairs
Our Head of Public Affairs deals with Partnerships and Supporters. In their role, they help to:
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Deputy Head of Membership Development
Our Deputy Head of Membership Development helps to link us with our members. In their role, they help to:
- Write up meeting minutes every two months.
- Create quarterly surveys of our members to understand their views.
- Arrange meetings, including the agenda and meeting time, events for members of our team, including social events and guest speakers at meetings.
- Reach out to members and the supportive members of the public to better understand their views.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Deputy Head of Communications
Our Deputy Head of Communications oversees our social media pages and websites. In their role, they help to:
- Create new graphic styles and help update our image.
- Head up our Digital Team.
- Oversee day-to-day updates of our social media pages, website, press releases and our general messaging.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Policy
Our head of policy oversees our work in creating new policies and editing existing policies. In their role, they help to:
- Check new policies for grammar mistakes and for feasibility concerns. They also run votes on policy and then add policies which pass to the policy documents.
- Heads-up engagement with Parliament on policy, including horizon scanning for debates and opportunities for committee submissions.
- Look for new opportunities to submit parliamentary committee submissions.
- Create a yearly policy review and coordinate spokespeople contributing to the review.
On average, this role takes around two hours a week.
Voluntary
Head of Policy
Our head of policy oversees our work in creating new policies and editing existing policies. In their role, they help to:
- Check new policies for grammar mistakes and for feasibility concerns. They also run votes on policy and then add policies which pass to the policy documents.
- Heads-up engagement with Parliament on policy, including horizon scanning for debates and opportunities for committee submissions.
- Look for new opportunities to submit parliamentary committee submissions.
- Create a yearly policy review and coordinate spokespeople contributing to the review.
On average, this role takes around two hours a week.
Voluntary
Head of Communications
Our Head of Communications oversees our social media pages and websites. This is alongside a Deputy Head of Communications, who will support in carrying out the role. In their role, they help to:
- Create new graphic styles and help update our image.
- Head up our Digital Team.
- Oversee day-to-day updates of our social media pages, website, press releases and our general messaging.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Fundraising
Our Head of Fundraising oversees raising money. In their role, they help to:
- Lead our efforts to map and connect with potential donors, donor organisations, Advisory Board members and potential Business Network members.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Press Officer
Our Press Officer manages the relationship we have with the media and news organisations. In their role, they help to:
- Run the press office, which includes press releases and external press coverage.
- Handle external media appearances or articles.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Deputy Head of Events and Interviews
Our Deputy Head of Events and Interviews runs our events and interviews. In their role, they help to:
- Arrange and write questions for our events and interviews. This will also, on some occasions, include hosting our podcast or chairing events.
- Record, edit and upload our podcasts once a month and events once every two months.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Operations
Our Head of Operations manages the running of our team. In their role, they help to:
- Maintain contact with our Administration, Spokespeople, Regional Chairs, and Devolved Chairs by emailing members of our team weekly to check on their progress and answer their questions.
- Carry out the roles set out within our Research guidelines.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Membership Development
Our Head of Membership Development helps to link us with our members. In their role, they help to:
- Write up meeting minutes every two months.
- Create quarterly surveys of our members to understand their views.
- Arrange meetings, including the agenda and meeting time, events for members of our team, including social events and guest speakers at meetings.
- Reach out to members and the supportive members of the public to better understand their views.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Deputy Head of Communications
Our Deputy Head of Communications oversees our social media pages and websites. In their role, they help to:
- Create new graphic styles and help update our image.
- Head up our Digital Team.
- Oversee day-to-day updates of our social media pages, website, press releases and our general messaging.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Events and Interviews
Our Head of Events and Podcasts runs our events and podcasts. This is alongside a Deputy Head of Events and Interviews, who will support in carrying out the role. In their role, they help to:
- Arrange and write questions for our events and interviews. This will also, on some occasions, include hosting our podcast or chairing events.
- Record, edit and upload our podcasts once a month and events once every two months.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Administration
Our Head of Administration oversees our internal rules. In their role, they help to:
- Update our key, safeguarding, training, and complaints documents and email our members whenever they do so. To update the accessibility document, we will include a meeting with the Director to discuss the state of each area.
- Create a yearly report on our progress as an organisation. This report includes setting our yearly goals and proposing how we can increase our membership numbers.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Voluntary
Head of Publications
Our Head of Publications oversees the writing of new papers and articles. In their role, they help to:
- Oversee papers and articles, including being involved in the initial discussions and checking progress over time until the work is completed.
- Edit papers and articles for grammatical or policy-based mistakes.
On average, this role takes around two hours a week.
Voluntary
Head of Public Affairs
Our Head of Public Affairs deals with Partnerships and Supporters. In their role, they help to:
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around three hours per week.
Spokesperson vacancies
Voluntary
Health Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Technology Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Culture, Media and Sport Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Education Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Housing Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Transport Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Social Security Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Democracy Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Equality Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Foreign Affairs Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Environment Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Culture, Media and Sport Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Justice Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Community Spokesperson
In their role, they help to:
- Work on one paper every two years.
- Produce an article for our website at least once every four months, preferably once every two months.
- Release statements on large events within their area.
- Write policy ideas for their area of policy or set policy issues to research.
- Contribute to our social media content, including posts on their area and quotes to be used on graphics. This includes drafting a post with cover text each week for use on social media.
- Review draft procedures, policies, and documents.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Digital Media Officer vacancies
Public affairs vacancies
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Rights)
In their role, they help to:
- Cover justice, democracy, equality, and foreign affairs.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Consultations)
In their role, they help to:
- Lead our work on consultation responses.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Society)
In their role, they help to:
- Cover community, culture, media, sport, and the environment.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Rights)
In their role, they help to:
- Cover justice, democracy, equality, and foreign affairs.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Private Sector)
In their role, they help to:
- Cover economy, technology, and social security.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Public Sector)
In their role, they help to:
- Cover education, health, housing, and transport.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Voluntary
Public Affairs Officer (Parliamentary Engagement)
In their role, they help to:
- Heads up our engagement with Parliament.
- Support our public affairs work in a specific set of policy areas.
- Write and send emails to potential supporters, partners, network members, article authors, interviewees, forewords, campaigns, and events.
- Keep our existing partners and supporters updated with our activities, including papers we are writing and campaigns we are running.
- Work with our Network Chairs to run our networks.
- Work on the public affairs aspect of papers, articles, events, and interview releases, including stakeholder mapping, press releases, meetings with stakeholders, and political monitoring.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
Commission and programme leads
Voluntary
Devolution revolution commission lead
In their role, they:
- Researching the areas affected and authoring chapters of commission papers. This includes scoping potential focus areas for the commission.
- Engaging with political parties, politicians, pressure groups, and affected communities. This includes identifying individuals who may be interested in joining the commission, who may want to receive updates on the work being done, or to gather input.
- Working with commission partners and the expert panel to manage scheduling and send any tasks that need to be completed, such as reviewing papers.
- Ensuring the commission’s scope is appropriate. It should be broad enough to cover key issues but focused enough to allow for meaningful research and insights.
Voluntary
Transforming justice commission lead
In their role, they:
- Researching the areas affected and authoring chapters of commission papers. This includes scoping potential focus areas for the commission.
- Engaging with political parties, politicians, pressure groups, and affected communities. This includes identifying individuals who may be interested in joining the commission, who may want to receive updates on the work being done, or to gather input.
- Working with commission partners and the expert panel to manage scheduling and send any tasks that need to be completed, such as reviewing papers.
- Ensuring the commission’s scope is appropriate. It should be broad enough to cover key issues but focused enough to allow for meaningful research and insights.
Complaints and safeguarding vacancies
Voluntary
Head of Pastoral Care
In their role, they:
- Support people under 18 and adults with additional needs before, during and after complaints.
- The number of hours this role will take each week will depend on the number of complaints, minor investigations or whistleblowing reports we receive.
- Due to the nature of this role involving ongoing complaints the person holding it must give us four weeks’ notice if they decide to leave the position.
Voluntary
Deputy Head of Complaints
In their role, they:
- Remain independent which involves not holding another position within Centre or voting on policies.
- Respond to complaints if the complaint involves or there is a conflict of interest with the Head of Complaints. This can involve responding to complaints, ensuring they are anonymous, giving them a case number and investigating the complaint making a decision on the complaint if necessary.
- Due to the nature of this role involving ongoing complaints the person holding it must give us four weeks’ notice if they decide to leave the position.
- The number of hours this role will take each week will depend on the number of complaints, minor investigations or whistleblowing reports we receive.
Voluntary
Head of Complaints
In their role, they:
- Remain independent which involves not holding another position within Centre or voting on policies.
- Respond to complaints, ensure complaints are anonymous, give them a case number and investigate the complaint making a decision on the complaint if necessary.
- Support the Deputy Head of Complaints in providing new sections for the complaints procedure, the whistle-blowing policy and investigations into minor issues.
- Due to the nature of this role involving ongoing complaints the person holding it must give us four weeks’ notice if they decide to leave the position.
- The number of hours this role will take each week will depend on the number of complaints, minor investigations or whistleblowing reports we receive.
Voluntary
Head of Safeguarding
In their role, they:
- Remain independent which involves not holding another position within Centre or vote on policies.
- Ensuring at least one is present at events where there are vulnerable members or those under 18 are safe.
- Giving basic training to other members of Centre in how what Centres safeguarding rules are and how to report or deal with issues.
- The number of hours this role will take each week will depend on the number of complaints, minor investigations or whistleblowing reports we receive.
- Due to the nature of this role involving ongoing complaints the person holding it must give us four weeks’ notice if they decide to leave the position.
Voluntary
Head of Pastoral Care
In their role, they:
- Support people under 18 and adults with additional needs before, during and after complaints.
- The number of hours this role will take each week will depend on the number of complaints, minor investigations or whistleblowing reports we receive.
- Due to the nature of this role involving ongoing complaints the person holding it must give us four weeks’ notice if they decide to leave the position.
Regional and state team vacancies
Voluntary
Regional and State Chairs
In their role, they help to:
- Deal with the day-to-day running of the branch.
- Sit on their regional or state executive to run that branch, and within the national executive. Here, they can highlight policy proposals which are specific to the region or state they represent, or the impacts of policies on these areas.
- Act as a bridge of communication between the area and our Directors.
- Increase the number of members in that area.
- Recruit new team members and fill in vacant team roles.
On average, this role takes around two hours per week.
We have vacancies in the South East, South West, London, the East Midlands, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, and the North East. We also have State Chairs in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Voluntary
Regional and State Deputy Chairs
In their role, they help to:
- Take over from the Chair if they step down.
- Support the Chair in their role.
On average, this role takes around an hour per week.
We have vacancies in the South East, South West, London, the East Midlands, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, and the North East. We also have State Chairs in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Jasneet Samrai: Deputy Manager, Oxfam Aberystwyth, until May 2023. Breast Cancer Now from July 2023.
Alex Toal: Alliance and Support Executive, Make Votes Matter until 2022. Since then, he joined the Institute for Government as one of their two Events Officers.
Ariane Far: Policy Advisor, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Then Home Office as an International Relations Associate Director.
Jake Poulton: Public Affairs Coordinator, Red Cross Policy. Public Affairs Officer, the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Public Affairs and Advocacy Intern, Macmillan Cancer Support.
Will Barber-Taylor: Digital Campaigns and Media Officer at Generation Rent UK.
Joe Stanley: Office of Dan Jarvis MP.
Fergus Turtle: Monitoring and Research Officer at Deryn Consulting Ltd and then at Cavendish Consulting. He was also the National Campaigns and Policy Officer for Wales for the British Dietetic Association (BDA).
Madeline Thorp: Audit Associate at the National Audit Office.
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