Political Assistant; Reform Group

Salary £52,194 per annum, (spot spinal point 38.)

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Salary £52,194 per annum, (spot spinal point 38.) Package Full-time, Fixed-term Contract until 29th May 2030, 36 hours per week. Date posted 11/09/2026 Job reference R0007420 Attachments Role Profile - Reform Group Political Assistant

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

We live by five core values:
Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.

We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.

As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.

If you join us, you’ll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

Are you looking for an interesting and challenging position? Would you thrive in a political environment, providing broad-ranging support to the Reform Group, one of the Opposition Groups of the Council? If so, this may be the job for you.

Working closely with the Leader, Deputy Leader and Whip and other members, you will support the effective working of the Reform Group itself along with council officers and other stakeholders.

With a good understanding of the Reform Party and its ways of working, you will organise and support meetings of the Reform Group, undertake research and advise on the development of political strategy, policies and positions, and draft reports, briefings, speeches/ speaking notes, communications etc to help the Group to take these forward. You will also support engagement with Reform UK nationally and at London level.

This role is a brilliant opportunity to develop your skills in the heart of the Council’s democratic and political arena.

The role is based in the Strategy and Transformation Directorate and reports to the Head of Democratic Services.

The team, and your position in it, plays a vital role in supporting the political life of the Local Authority and the Council decision making processes which affect every resident and visitor to Hounslow, a vibrant borough which covers a large amount of West London from Feltham in the West to Brentford and Chiswick in the East.

As Political Assistant to the Reform Group, you will be working with the Leader, Deputy Leader and Whip of the Group,…