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- Do you love working with people and are good at community engagement?
- Do you share our passion to change the way our housing estates are managed, so that biodiversity, food growing and climate change are all considered – and most importantly, residents are involved in that management?
- Are you super organised? You will need to be – as you will be overseeing six projects on six housing estates, each with their own budget.
If the answers are “Yes”, “Yes” and “Yes” then we would like to hear from you TODAY
Read the job description and get applying!
Part-time project co-ordinator role for Mayor of London’s Grow Back Greener funded project
Duration of part time job
1st January 2021 – 1st July 2021 with a possibility to extend
Day of the week for this work – to be negotiated
Rate of Pay
1 day/week @ £30,000 pro rata = £500/month
Support
Working closely with IEL coordinator to deliver the project
Job Description
Project description:
IEL has been awarded funding to create, test and implement a new template for the management of housing estate land that will promote food growing and biodiversity across Lambeth. Incredible Edible Lambeth has come together with Lambeth Council, two housing associations and estate residents to create a new template for nature-friendly management of housing estate land. Our project will test, develop and implement the template on areas of land (big and small) on six estates: Myatt’s Fields South, Ethelred, Vauxhall Gardens, Holland Town, St Martins and Central Hill. By creating the template, we will provide a gold standard for the management of estate land that can be rolled out in Lambeth and beyond. The projects will involve community organisations working with estate managers to renovate run down areas and enhance biodiversity throughout the estate. It will overturn practices that damage human health and biodiversity (eg use of pesticides, over-mowing, poor quality maintenance regimes) to improve access to nature and healthy, affordable food for people living in areas of deprivation. The project will improve the skills of people managing estates both in grounds maintenance and customer service, improve estate land and enable residents to learn new horticultural and environmental skills.
Purpose of the job:
To co-ordinate IEL’s project to model a template of engagement on housing estates which brings together Housing Officers, Grounds Maintenance and Residents to manage this land for biodiversity and food growing. The first stage of the project will be to create this template with residents from all the six estates involved, alongside housing officers and grounds maintenance reps. Once created, this template will be tested across six housing estates (four Council, two Housing Association), with each estate undertaking a mini project, with biodiversity and food growing in mind and an understanding that climate change mitigation and adaptation needs to be integral to the planning and implementation of those projects.
Key tasks:
- Creating a template of engagement through a series of discussions with a working group
- Supporting each estate with the implementation of their projects in a relatively short time frame, trialling the template as the project develops (5-6 months)
- Working with each rep from each estate to build community engagement in the project
- Working with housing officers and grounds maintenance to build trust and model a different way of working
- Managing the budget
Essential qualities
Community engagement skills
An ability to work with all stakeholders
Extremely organised – working to tight time frame
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to engage with a wide range of individuals and stakeholder from different backgrounds and circumstances
Desirable qualities
A passion for change!
Some horticultural knowledge
Some knowledge of climate change adaptation models
Self-organiser, self sufficient and ability to ‘think on your feet’ to problem solve under pressure Strong interpersonal skills including networking and confidence to liaise and negotiate at a senior level
Some experience of non-violent conflict resolution processes
Ability to work flexibly and with limited resources due to budget constraints
IT skills including Excel, Powerpoint, Google Docs, WordPress, Trello, Zoom and Mailchimp
Experience of developing communications strategies
Good verbal communication skills
Ability to plan, project manage and deliver the project
Financial skills to manage the budget for this project
Motivational skills to manage any volunteers involved with the project
Happy to work out of hours and work flexibly
How to apply
Send a CV and covering letter (both as pdfs) outlining why you are the best person for the job. Please put your name in the title of the pdf, write ‘GBG job application and YOUR NAME’ in subject line and send to incrediblelambeth@gmail.com
Deadlines
Deadline for applications is 6pm on Sunday 13th December, interviews (by zoom) will be from 2-5pm Wednesday 16th December and we hope to appoint by end December to start 1st January 2021