Welcome to w4mpjobs

w4mpjobs

Welcome to w4mpjobs, funded by the House of Commons to provide career development opportunities for those working for MPs and those who are looking for a job with an MP or in other areas of political activity. 

If you are an MP advertising a job please email us at editor@w4mp.org to let us know and we will be able to prioritise dealing with your ad.

w4mpjobs over the holiday period

The w4mp team will be taking a break until January 6 and ads may not be posted as quickly. In addition we may not respond as rapidly to queries. Please take extra care when submitting ads.

Looking for a Job?

You can search ads on the current system in the following ways:

• All current jobs
• Just view those paying National Minimum Wage (NMW)/National Living Wage (NLW) and above
• Just view unpaid jobs and those offering below NMW/NLW
• Just view those paying Real Living Wage (RLW) and above
• Find ads withdrawn before their expiry date
• Search all ads including expired ones.

National Minimum Wage and Real Living Wage

Year	23 and over	21 to 22	18 to 20	Under 18	Apprentice
April 2024	£11.44	£11.44	£8.60	£6.40	£6.40
April 2023 April 2022	£10.42 £9.50	£10.18 £9.18	£7.49 £6.83	£5.28 £4.81	£5.28 £4.81

See

https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates

Real Living Wage

The Real Living Wage is £12.60ph across the UK and £13.85ph in London

See

https://www.livingwage.org.uk/what-real-living-wage

Volunteering Opportunities Overseas

We list overseas volunteering opportunities on our main site as these are not jobs and often require fundraising by applicants. See current opportunities.

Unpaid opportunities on w4mpjobs

We recognise that there is great value in people having access to proper work experience, where it is offered and arranged properly and is a mutually beneficial arrangement, but that this should never be used as a way of circumventing national minimum wage/living wage regulations.

A proportion of posts advertised on w4mpjobs are opportunities to volunteer, either with political parties or with charities. These are understandably unpaid but we reserve the right not to publish ads which we judge to take advantage of this.

Adverts for roles which are unpaid but which specify set hours and/or a set duration and which list tasks or give a job description more characteristic of a paid post are not voluntary roles, they are unpaid jobs. A truly voluntary role should be flexible. We would ask you to state this clearly in the ad.

We also expect adverts to adhere to the spirit and not just the letter of the rules governing voluntary roles and national minimum wage/national living wage. Implying that you are flexible about how many hours/days you expect when you really have a fixed view and will not interview those offering less means that you are offering an unpaid job, not an internship or voluntary work.