Associate Organiser, Migrants - Manchester, United Kingdom - Citizens UK

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Job Title:
Associate Organiser, Migrants and Refugees - East Midlands


Grade, Salary:
Associate Organiser, £27,953


Hours:
Full Time hrs per week, Flexible working available and some unsociable hours required

Contract: 24-month Fixed Term contract


Based:
East Midlands (some remote working, in-person activity focused in Leicester and Nottingham)

Interviews will be in-person in Nottingham or Leicester on Thursday 27th July.

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), and Sponsor Refugees, 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 12,000 accredited Living Wage Employers across the UK.

Purpose


The principal responsibility of an Associate Organiser is their own development: learning the craft of Community Organising under the guidance of an experienced Community Organiser.

They work intensively with a small assignment under close supervision, growing their experience, skill, and responsibility incrementally.

An Associate Organiser is working towards becoming a competent practitioner of the craft of broad-based community organising methodology, and focuses on the building of relational power, the identification and development of leaders, the strengthening of member institutions, leader-led public actions, and the winning of systemic change.

Main Responsibilities

Working as an Associate Organiser, Migrants and Refugees Organising at Citizens UK your main responsibilities will include:
Contribute towards the goals of the Migrants and Refugee Organising team:

  • Build relationships with people who have experience of the immigration system or who may be important allies, speaking to at least 3 people per day through 121 conversations.
  • Work to build a team of 1015 leaders with lived experience of the immigration system in the East Midlands to create change
  • Work with colleagues in the Together We Can team and to run local and national campaigns and leadership teams
  • Work alongside existing community organisers in Leicester and Nottingham to support their work on migration justice
Build relational power to further the goals of CUK

  • Actively participate in the development of a comprehensive power analysis appropriate to the desired sphere of influence for each assignment
  • Establish working relationships with identified leaders and move them into action, incl. as part of the wider alliance; taking the initiative to establish new relationships as required
  • Conduct 121s to develop relationships with leaders 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 leaders with the passion and ability to drive change
  • Proactively create opportunities for leaders to develop, in particular tertiary or new leaders; nominate them for training on the core taster curriculum
  • Successfully deliver training workshops in local institutions and on the core taster curriculum at a local level
Strengthen institutions and develop BBOs

  • Ensure good understanding of the basic interests and traditions of typical member institutions
  • Organise with leaders from different kinds of institution to work together for the achievement of common goals
  • Support preexisting core teams and create/develop new core teams to provide leadership at institutional and cluster levels
Support leaders through the Cycle of Action to create change

  • Support member institutions in running listening campaigns
  • Organise neighbourhood actions, demonstrating increasing independence in working without the need for close supervision
  • Take the lead in supporting groups of leaders through the cycle of action on neighbourhood issues; aiming to achieve neighbourhood wins
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