Community Organiser
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Fiscal Host: The Social Change Nest
We want to fund a community organiser to advance the campaign throughout Tower Hamlets
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About
JOB ADVERT: Safer Streets Community Organiser
Deadline for application: October 30th, 2024
Process: Please send a CV, and cover letter of no more than two pages setting out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the person specification to [email protected] by October 30th 2024. If you have any questions about the role before submitting your CV and covering letter, please get in touch. Applications in Bengali and English welcomed. This role is a freelance contract role.
Pay: To be discussed, but around £2,000 per month, part time for 6 months initially as a contractor
Start date: ASAP
Deadline for application: October 30th, 2024
Process: Please send a CV, and cover letter of no more than two pages setting out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the person specification to [email protected] by October 30th 2024. If you have any questions about the role before submitting your CV and covering letter, please get in touch. Applications in Bengali and English welcomed. This role is a freelance contract role.
Pay: To be discussed, but around £2,000 per month, part time for 6 months initially as a contractor
Start date: ASAP
Background
- Save Our Safer Streets is a grassroots Tower Hamlets campaign group which has succeeded in keeping the newly built pedestrian-friendly streets around Old Bethnal Green Road, Columbia Road and Arnold Circus, despite plans by Tower Hamlets Council to spend millions of pounds reintroducing thousands of vehicles every day to these narrow residential streets.
- In part through our campaigning, two council consultations in 2022 and 2023 demonstrated the clear majority of local residents and businesses support the safer street layouts. We also had vocal support from teachers, doctors and the police.
- More than 3,000 people signed our petition calling on the council to stop, listen and then improve the street layouts.
- Nevertheless, the council decided on 20 September 2023 to remove current layouts
- 1,100 people then donated to our CrowdJustice campaign to fund our legal challenge and it is because the high court has granted us a hearing that the council is not implementing its decision yet.
- We hope to win the court case in 2024 which will undo the council’s decision, but beyond the immediate campaign to save our safer streets, parklets and community spaces, we also want to be part of developing a growing coalition of people in Tower Hamlets who want the council to explore ways to make the whole borough a safer place to get around, especially for those who walk, wheel, cycle and take public transport.
- Up to this point we have been organised as an informal group of 12 people in a steering committee – all volunteers who have guided the campaign since July 2022, covering project management, legal, lobbying, research, press, social media, events, community engagement, website.
- Through a range of donations, the group now has the capacity to engage paid support, which will significantly increase its range of activities over the next two years, up to and beyond the 2026 elections in Tower Hamlets.
Role purpose
- The community organiser will build a large coalition of people and groups within Tower Hamlets who support proposals to make streets in the borough safer for everyone, particularly for those who walk, wheel, cycle and use public transport.
Responsibilities and activities
- The community organiser will be responsible for planning development and delivery, community relationship management and communications. The person will report to the SOSS steering group member.
Person specification
- Experience of creating positive change within a community group or groups
- Experience of working with diverse communities, particularly people of multiple faiths and ethnicities
- Outstanding verbal communication, listening, and interpersonal skills; able to build trusting relationships with a variety of people and bring them onboard with a project or idea, and support them to take their own ideas forwards
- Clear and convincing writing, including good proofreading
- Experience of using digital campaigning techniques
- Good project and event management skills
- Willingness to test out new things, learn from failure, and test again
- Able to work alone or as part of a team. When in a team, a strong team player with a collaborative working style
- Able to work from home, with access to a computer with Office software / Google drive
- Lives in or close to Tower Hamlets, with established relationships and connections locally
- Knowledge of non-English community languages in Tower Hamlets desirable
How to apply
- Please send a CV, and cover letter of no more than two pages setting out why you are interested in the role and how you meet the person specification to [email protected] by October 30th 2024. If you have any questions about the role before submitting your CV and covering letter, please get in touch - thank you!
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