Project Organiser, Cardiff
3 days ago
Cardiff
Citizens UK Citizens UK is the UK’s biggest, most diverse and most effective people-powered alliance. We bring communities and local organisations together to work on issues that matter; from campaigning for zebra crossings on dangerous roads, to reforming the immigration system, to the Living Wage campaign. We have a track record of winning change through hundreds of local and national campaigns. We know everyday people have the ability to shape the world around them. We believe that through developing local leaders, we can drive nationwide change and create community-led solutions to big and small problems. Project Information Butetown and Grangetown Neighbourhood Fund project, funded by the Youth Endowment Fund. More details here: ___ Citizens Cymru Wales has developed an innovative approach to reducing youth violence with community organising at its heart, working across four unique assumptions: • ‘It takes a village to raise a child’, • ‘Anger without power leads to rage’, • ‘Recognising the need to address Adverse Community Experiences’ Main Responsibilities This is a unique role, focused on project management but embedding community organising. As project organiser for Butetown and Grangetown Neighbourhood Fund you will support the project aims, enabling core partners and intervention leads to fulfil the action plan and build a legacy for the long term. Alongside this, you will develop a craft of community organising, working closely with civic organisations based in the neighbourhoods, understanding local power and building partnerships with wider stakeholders, and developing local institutions and youth leaders. All of this should ladder up to building the power of the broader Cardiff Citizens alliance. You will embed the ethos of community organising across the project and its legacy by: • developing the leadership of people within local organisations - our 'leaders' who lead the campaigns we work on, • helping them to collectively identify the changes they want to see and create strategies to win those changes, • strengthen institutions’ own abilities to achieve their missions. Working as the Project Organiser for Citizens UK, your main responsibilities will include: Career Pathways Headings Build and manage projects and achieve work targets effectively • Project manage the YEF/Citizens UK Neighbourhood Fund project in the neighbourhoods of Butetown and Grangetown, • Support the delivery of four interventions (Mental health, ALN & Literacy/Sports and Police action team) including due diligence, accountability, measurement and impact monitoring., • Ensure good governance; setting up stakeholder meetings and working with community leaders to develop the agenda and actions, • Maintain and extend local relationships and partnerships with community and civic organisations and wider statutory power, • Map and develop an ecosystem of strategic relationships at the local level, • Support the interventions with communicating the impact of their work individually and collectively, • Create comms outputs that communicate the work of the YEF project for internal and external stakeholders, • Support the interventions to seek additional funding to continue their work beyond 2027, • Conduct 5 relational one-to-ones per week, • Identify and discern actual and potential leaders with the passion and ability to drive change, • Achieve significant development of primary and secondary leaders; nominate new leaders for training on the Citizens UK core taster curriculum and for National Training, • Attend Citizens UK 6-day training to further understanding the method of Community Organising used by CUK, • Ensure good understanding of the basic interests and traditions of typical member institutions, • Support the development of the Cardiff Citizens alliance (D) Desirable, (E) Essential Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in any subject (D) Qualification in a subject of relevance to community work or community organising (D) Experience • Evidence of having acted in a leadership role with peers or in local community activities (e.g., organising clubs or societies) (E), • Experience of project management; evidence of having set up and/or delivered projects on time and to standard (E), • Able to demonstrate previous experience of ‘learning by doing’ in a work or project environment; evidence of being open to feedback and comfortably coachable (E), • Experience of building consensus between diverse stakeholders to drive progressive change (D), • Excellent interpersonal awareness – ability to listen well and appreciate a viewpoint or opinion that is different from one’s own (E), • Excellent concern for impact – ability to adapt own behaviour to address the needs or concerns of someone else (E), • Good communication skills – able to speak with conviction and passion; and to make a logical argument (E), • Excellent time management skills with the ability to juggle a wide range of competing demands (E), • Strong IT skills to include MS Office (E), • A self-starter with ability to take initiative and work independently (E), • A passion for justice (E), • A positive enthusiasm for working with faith congregations, trade unions, schools, and other community organisations (E), • An interest in and experience of politics and public life (E), • Able to work in a team (E), • Willingness to work within accountable relationships (E) The successful applicant will be required to undertake a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check. DBS checks are renewed on a 3-year cycle. About the application process We work within diverse communities bringing people together. In line with our Inclusion value, we would love to see applications from LGBTQIA+ people, people from racialised communities, people living with disabilities and people of faith, all to better represent the communities we work in. We want our employees to have the working conditions that allows them to fully participate, be able to be their best authentic selves and thrive doing so, and we have employee networks to support staff. Even if you don’t quite meet all the required criteria still consider applying, as we invest in our employees and support them to develop the skills and knowledge required to deliver their role. For questions and reasonable adjustments regarding your application including information in a different format, or our recruitment process, please email us.