Local Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop needs a Research Assistant to work in the Constituency Office in Guisborough based in Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland.

Central task is to support policy casework and parliamentary tasks such as parliamentary questions, early day motions, speeches etc to link in with priorities of constituency based issues.

Excellent interpersonal, customer, organisational and computer skills required.

£18,000 per annum – 4 days per week (30 hours)

Closing date for applications is 24 February 2012, with interviews on 2nd March.

Apply in writing with a full CV and two references to joe@tomblenkinsop.com or Tom Blenkinsop MP, 8 Wilson Street, Guisborough, TS14 6NA.

For a job description, please contact Joe Keenan on 01287 610878 or email joe@tomblenkinsop.com.

Tom Blenkinsop, the Labour Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, has today (27 January 2012) marked Holocaust Memorial Day, joining calls that we must all “speak up and speak out” to prevent the atrocities of the Holocaust and other genocides ever being repeated.

Tom said “We all have a duty to stand up and speak out against all forms of inequality and intolerance, and to remember the millions of lives that were destroyed in the Holocaust and other genocides.

Today, I delivered an assembly at Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough educating students about the Holocaust, ensuring that we never forget what the terrible consequences of hatred can be. Pupils there were asked to read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous “First they came…” poem.”

Tom also signed the Holocaust Memorial Day Book of Commitment in the House of Commons on Wednesday, whilst his constituency office has held a Holocaust Memorial Day display open to members of the public for the last three weeks.

On Sunday, Tom will be joining fellow Teesside residents in attending the Holocaust Memorial Service at St. Barnabas Church in Linthorpe at 1pm.