APPLICATION FORM – GENERATION GREEN

We are not looking for the finished product. We are interested in potential, attitude and in you. The criteria we will use to select the successful candidates are set out in GENERATION GREEN – AN INTRODUCTION. Please submit your application by 5pm on December 4th 2015to Cath Miller, Chief of Staff for Caroline Lucas MP c/o

THE BASICS

Name:

Date of birth:

Local Party:

How long have you been a Green Party member?

Please tell us why the Green Party matters to you, in 20 words or less:

Gender:

Please tell us if you identify as belonging to any excluded, minority or disadvantaged group. In particular, please tell us if you identify as BME, disabled and/or LGBTIQ:

GETTING IN TOUCH

Please tell us your postal address:

Your phone number(s):

Your email address:

How you’d prefer us to communicate with you in future:

CAMPAIGNER

Please tell us about your first ever campaigning experience. It might have been petitioning a parent for a new toy or signing a 38 degrees petition. We want to know how it made you feel and what you’ve learnt about successful campaigning since.Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

COMMUNICATOR

Job applications always ask if you are a good communicator – and most people usually say yes. But this isn’t a job application and we want to know something different. What do you think good communication is and how does it make the other person feel? If you want to give an example from your own experience to illustrate, that’d be helpful too.Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

MEDIA

Are you the kind of person who loves being in front of a camera or do you freeze up? We want to know about your experience of being interviewed live for TV or radio, of pre-records and for print media. And using one specific example, can you tell us about a media experience that either went spectacularly well or badly – what did you set out to achieve and how did the reality match up? What lessons did you learn?Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

What about social media – are you a prolific user? A keen or reluctant one? Do you put yourself out there or watch from the side-lines? And why are you doing it?Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

POLITICIAN

Do you have good political judgement? How do you know? Can you give us an example? If politics is a game what kind of player are you? Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

ELECTION CANDIDATE

It’s the taking part that matters. Please tell us about any electedpositions you may have contested even if you lost, your experience of being part of election campaigns, what you enjoyed and what you didn’t.Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

POLICY

Have you ever worked in a job that’s required you to develop, communicate or comment on policy? Have you been involved in developing any of the Green Party’s policies?Are you a policy wonk or more of a broad brush type person? Can you remember lots of detail or are you better with narratives? Tell us it all please.Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

ABOUT YOU

Please be honest – we can only tailor Generation Green to individual participants if you give us accurate information.

Why?

You’ve made it this far and now we’d like you to tell us why? What appeals about being part of Generation Green and what do you hope to get out of the opportunity?

Strengths

We want to know what you think you are good at and why – and also what other people say you are good at too. When do you shine and what qualities in yourself do you value?

Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

Weaknesses

And what do you wish you did better? Are there big gaps in your knowledge? Skills you want to develop? Experiences you don’t have yet?Please restrict your reply to 200 words or less.

The Box

We want to identify the best possible people to be part of Generation Green. That means thinking outside the box, as well as inside it. Please use this box to tell us anything else you think we need to know and haven’t asked about.

Your availability

The programme will run for a year in the first instance and consist of a mix of face to face and remote content. We’d like the successful candidates to spend an average of 2 days a month on the programme, though there will be the option to do more if you can. Please let us know about any restrictions on your time that would impact on how and when you would be able to participate. This will allow us to plan a timetable that best fits everyone’s needs.

Signed: Date:

Please return to Cath Miller by 5pm on December 4th 2015. Email address:

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