Associate Organiser - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Citizens UK

Citizens UK

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Job Title:
Associate Organiser - Newham Citizens

Hours: 5 days a week, 37.5 hours per week. Open to requests to work flexibly e.g. 4 days or 30 hpw. Some planned evening and weekend working required.

Contract:
Permanent

Base:
Newham

Interview Date:
Monday 20th March am-4pm).

Citizens UK

Citizens UK is a people power alliance of diverse local communities working together for the common good. Our mission is to develop leaders, strengthen civic organisations and make change.

Our 550 member communities are deeply rooted in their local areas and connect every day to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Through the method of community organising we enable people experiencing powerlessness to develop their leadership and come together with the power and strategy to make change.

This leads to hundreds of neighbourhood improvements - from zebra crossings outside primary schools to renovated public toilets in cemeteries.

And it leads to some of the biggest campaign impacts in the UK, such as winning over £2 billion of wages through the UK Living Wage campaign, securing a legal cap on the cost of credit to control exploitative lending, and ending the detention of children for immigration purposes.

We enable local campaigns to grow into large-scale social change projects such as the Living Wage Foundation, Parents and Communities Together (PACT), Sponsor Refugees, and Refugees for Justice, that form an integral part of our theory of change.

The most prominent of these is the rapidly growing Living Wage Foundation with a network of over 11,000 accredited Living Wage Employers across the UK.

Newham Citizens

In this role you would work with Newham Citizens, a fast-growing alliance of 25 organisations who work for social justice in Newham.

The role will require you to support people to take public action on the issues they care about in Newham.

The alliance has 4+ active campaigns across the issues of community led affordable housing, a Living Wage for workers, Youth Safety and Health Inequalities.

If you're the sort of person who hates injustice and loves working with and relating to people, this is the role for you.

In return you will receive excellent training in how to run effective campaigns and space to grow your skills at one of the UK's leading campaigning organisations.

Associate Organiser Purpose

The principal responsibility of an Associate Organiser is their own development: learning the craft of Community Organising. They work intensively with member organisations under close supervision, growing their experience, skill and responsibility incrementally.

An Associate Organiser is working towards becoming a competent practitioner of broad-based community organising and focuses on the building people power, the recruitment and retention of fee-paying member organisations, the development of leaders, the strengthening of member organisations, leader-led public actions, and the winning of systemic change.

Broader Responsibilities of an Associate Organiser

This role reports into a Senior Community Organiser.

Working as an Associate Organiser in Newham for Citizens UK your main responsibilities will include:

Build relational power to further Citizens UK goals:

Actively participating in the development of a comprehensive power analysis or mapping of power holders within Newham and East London.
Establish working relationships with identified leaders and demonstrate ability to move them into action, including as part of the wider alliance; taking the initiative to establish new relationships as required.
Conduct 121s to develop relationships with leaders across Newham and understand their concerns.
Tell a wide range of Community Organising stories effectively to influence others and achieve Citizens UK's goals

Identify and develop relational leaders prepared to act with others for the common good:

Identify and discern actual and potential Newham leaders who want to make change on an issue and drive change.
Proactively create opportunities for leaders to develop and nominate leaders for training on the core taster curriculum.
Successfully deliver training workshops in member organisations on the community organising curriculum at a local level.

Strengthen institutions and develop Newham Citizens as a Broad Based Organisation:

Ensure good understanding of the basic interests and traditions of member institutions: Schools, Universities, Churches, Mosques, Charities.
Organise a group of up to 5 standard member institutions to take actions on 4 core campaigns: Living Wage, Housing, Youth Safety and Health Inequalities.
Support preexisting teams of people in organisations to translate organising into their organisation.

Support leaders through a 'Cycle of Action' to create change:

Support up to 18 member institutions in running listening to campaigns and acting on the issues they care about alongside other member organisations.
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