Contract: Two years (with possibility of extension)
Salary: £25,021 pro rata
Location: London / Birmingham / Leeds (or York) / Bristol (or Bath); working from home for foreseeable future
Hours: Near full time but flexible: either 4, 4.5 or 5 days per week depending on preference. Exact working hours negotiable around e.g. caring responsibilities.
Deadline: 9am, Tuesday 1st September
Interviews: 7th-18th September
About the role: Car Free City Campaigners will be working with local people and organisations to develop and promote a private car-free vision for your city, as well as helping design and deliver bottom up, street level changes to reduce traffic in the short term. Your day to day will involve forging alliances within your city and local communities, building support for creative initiatives and practical projects to improve the public realm to help tackle climate change, air pollution, congestion and road danger.
Possible is committed to providing equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of their background. We value diversity whilst also acknowledging that people from certain backgrounds are underrepresented in our organisation. We are keen to correct this, so particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people; people who identify as disabled; people from LGBTQIA+ communities; people who have mental health problems and people who identify as working class (or have done in the past). If you’re not sure about applying, please do get in touch with us for a chat – we’d love to talk to you!
US: Hi, we’re Possible – we bring people together to create bold, beautiful solutions in response to the climate crisis. Whether that’s connecting the world’s first solar railway, mining renewable heat from underneath parks, leading calls for a televised election climate debate or launching a ground-breaking employer scheme to incentivise clean holiday travel - we’re always thinking of new ways to cut carbon that involve and benefit the public.
YOU: Are you someone with a passion for tackling local injustice and environmental problems in a way that gets everyone involved? Are you an active member of your community with a drive to make your city a fairer, safer, healthier and greener place to live? Are you excited by the chance to create local solutions to global challenges like climate change? Are you ready to bring people together behind positive change, even if it means challenging received wisdom about how things should be done? If so, we should talk.
Possible have secured funding for a major new campaign to reduce private car dominance in cities, showing how achieving the big reductions in motor traffic needed to meet climate change targets will also dramatically improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living in cities, particularly in the most polluted areas. The ‘new normal’ post-covid cannot be one where people shun public transport for private cars, or our climate goals will be impossible to meet - and gridlock and toxic air will continue to blight life in Britain’s towns and cities.
Now we are putting together a crack team to make change happen from the bottom up in Birmingham, Leeds & York, Bristol & Bath, and London. Working with local community changemakers as well as city authorities, councillors and other civil society groups, our Car Free Cities campaigners will play a key role in co-producing plans for traffic reduction and urban greening schemes - and in puzzling out how we get to a future where nobody in cities has to depend on owning a car to get around. We will particularly focus on neighbourhoods where few people own cars, yet congestion and pollution levels are sky high. Come and join us - let’s do amazing things together!
+ About the role
You’ll be a member of an exciting new Car Free Cities team, based across London, Bristol & Bath, Leeds & York, and Birmingham - working alongside the three other local car free cities campaigners, and our new Head of Car Free Cities. The role will be based in London / Bristol or Bath / Leeds or York / Birmingham, and will be a work from home position in the city you live in (office space available in London and Bristol). The car free cities project will run for a minimum of two years from October 2020, and all four community campaigner roles come with a complementary folding Brompton bicycle for those who can and want to cycle for work.
With the support of the Head of Car Free Cities, and your peer campaigners, you’ll be responsible for designing a campaign plan for your city/cities and building the strong local relationships and networks needed to make it happen. You’ll reach out to local communities in areas of low car ownership and high air pollution levels to undertake citizen science projects - supported by academics at the Universities of West England and Westminster - to map traffic flows through their streets. You’ll support communities to develop compelling local visions for low traffic neighbourhoods and urban greening - working closely with our in house transport planner, graphic designer and architectural visualiser - before facilitating the local organising needed to transform those visions into realities.
You won’t stop there - you’ll leverage these pioneering examples of local action to humanise streets, and the grassroots action networks you’ve helped forge to increase city-wide ambition and measures for reducing car dominance, in turn providing inspiration to communities in other towns and cities across the UK which are ready to improve quality of life and tackle climate change.
No mean feat, but across your work you’ll collaborate with and be supported by the campaigns, fundraising and comms teams to develop the most effective mobilisations techniques, tell inspiring stories to leverage change, and build resources to take further action.
At a time when everything is in flux, there is more energy and opportunity than ever to transform our towns and cities into places that put people first, return life to our streets and improve public and planetary health. Of course, there will be challenges too - and together with your teammates and the local networks you build it will be your job to turn this rapidly changing context to up our advantage and the pace of real change.
As a member of the Possible team you’ll be part of a small, passionate, nimble, unique and positive organisation that cares about its people, its projects and, ultimately, the planet.
The Day to Day
Indicative responsibilities could include:
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Weekly Zoom meetings with the Car Free Cities project team, and the wider Possible team
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Establishing and maintaining good working relationships with local stakeholders such as community and residents’ groups and leaders, civil society actors and academics, employers and business leaders, schools, councillors and council officers
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Setting up and hosting public meetings in priority communities
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Speaking at other public events about the need to cut traffic and pollution
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Researching statistics and other information sources on local travel patterns, pollution and accident hot spots, problem rat runs etc
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Researching and summarising status of local political action to address these issues, including key barriers to greater ambition
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Writing campaign content that is accessible and meaningful for local communities
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Carrying out local public opinion surveys
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Writing to local newspapers in support of traffic reduction schemes
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Coordinating community responses to official consultations
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Training volunteers to use monitors to carry out citizen science traffic surveys, and communicating findings to local stakeholders
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Liaising with the team’s transport planner to develop local community-led traffic reduction proposals
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Liaising with the team’s creatives to produce compelling visuals setting out problems and proposed solutions
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Advocating for these community-led visions in local and city-wide political fora
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Organising neighbourhood tours on bike and foot for local politicians
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Running competitions with schools to find the best ideas to re-purpose soon-to-be-obsolete petrol stations to meet the needs of local people
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Supporting residents to apply to convert on-street parking spaces to pocket parks, or to organise play streets etc
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Organising local competitions to name new protected cycle lanes
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Contributing to the national Car Free Cities campaign strategy and delivery as needed
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Coming up with your own ideas for creative local interventions to cut traffic
+ Person specification
Competencies can be demonstrated by both paid and voluntary experience.
Must haves
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Strong personal connection to the relevant city/cities
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Track record of being active in your community (or more widely) on social and/or environmental issues
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Strong people skills and experience of working with volunteers, colleagues and project partners
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Good standard of written and spoken communication skills
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Ability to take initiative and work independently, as well as part of a team
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Excellent organisational and time management skills
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Adaptability, enthusiasm, appetite for learning
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Passion for working with the public to take action, and for helping increase the capacity of people to act and activate others around them
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Commitment to Possible’s positive approach to climate campaigning and passionate about achieving climate justice
Nice to haves
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Working knowledge of local and national climate and transport context and policy
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Experience of public meeting facilitation
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Experience of working with mainstream media and social media
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Event management experience
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Community organising experience
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Contacts in local government, community groups and residents associations, and existing networks of transport / environmental activists and NGOs active in your city
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Basic research skills
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Additional language skills relevant to local communities in your location
+ About Possible
Here at Possible, we have a vision for a low carbon Britain that has been built by and belongs to everybody.
To get there, we dream up projects, build tools and spread success stories to make sure everyone has the help and inspiration they need to play a role in tackling climate change. Our work cuts carbon, but because we work on cultural as well as technical levels, we get people talking about climate change action too. We want our projects to be infectious, so it is always about more than just a solar panel here, or an LED there - it’s about groups of people working together to change the world.
+ Our Values
Inclusivity Trust and respect Creativity Shared ambition
Positivity Caring and kindness Integrity Openness
Not just buzzwords to make us feel warm and fuzzy, these are the values we are guided by in our actions and our organisational culture. Away days help to keep these values alive and we work together to keep our team as supported, empowered and cared for as possible. We’re run by a team of directors rather than one single CEO, and we’re committed to reducing hierarchy wherever possible.
Workplace benefits include:
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25 days paid holiday (+ bank holidays and three days at Christmas)
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Flexible working
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Paid volunteer leave
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Bike to work scheme
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Complementary Brompton bicycle (these roles only)
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Paid journey days for low carbon holiday travel
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Childcare vouchers
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Good maternity and paternity leave
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Employer pension contribution
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Access to complementary Headspace account (mindfulness and meditation app)
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of homeless people?
One (Housing and Support) CIC are a specialist provider of intensive housing management to vulnerable groups of people. As a newly formed not-for-profit community interest company we work with a variety of people who need help to overcome barriers in their lives. We work in partnership with people to provide high-quality accommodation and support and help them to learn the key skills needed to live independently and play an active role in their community, giving them access to a better future.
At One CIC, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to do great things.
About the role
This is a highly rewarding opportunity and an excellent time to join an organisation that is passionate about reducing homelessness and giving people access to a better life.
The role itself is integral to establishing community hubs across West Yorkshire promoting independence and empowering sustainment of tenancies.
Reporting to the Head of Services you will also work closely with external professionals and other departments in the organisation to maximise tenants' chances of success.
You will be working with an allocation of tenants providing a robust intensive housing management service, which will require constant review and regular face to face contact.
Leading the assessment of incoming referrals, you will respond appropriately and gather the correct information from the outset, including valuable details for other professional sources.
You will create a meticulous support plan with each individual detailing elements of support required for the tenancy to be maintained, conducting a risk assessment to highlight any risks to themselves or the workforce at the same time.
Taking responsibility for regular Health and Safety checks, reporting any compliance related matters or maintenance issues.
About you
Able to demonstrate experience working with complex and challenging individuals in housing organisations with the necessary skills and abilities to complete assessments after initial referral, support plans, risk assessments and acceptable behaviour contracts.
You will have a confident approach with exceptional verbal communication and negotiation skills allowing you to navigate systems for effective recording and reporting.
Working with a 'can do' attitude which allows you to prioritise a busy and ever-changing workload.
Demonstrate a commitment to working in a way which shows Respect, Teamwork, Empathy and Integrity while welcoming training and personal development.
You will utilise your working knowledge of stakeholder agencies which may offer support and understanding of benefit entitlements.
How to apply
Please upload a copy of your CV, along with a covering letter which explains both why you are attracted to this post, and why you are the right person for us. Please limit your covering letter to no more than 1 page.
The closing date for applications is 9am, Monday 17th August, with first stage interviews taking place week commencing 17 th and 24 th August 2020 and final interviews scheduled for week commencing 14 th or 21 st September 2020.
Head of Services
Yorkshire and North East
£50,000 per annum plus bonus, pension and healthcare
Are you an innovative and effective senior operational leader with commercial acumen and a strong social ethos and ready to make a positive contribution to the lives of homeless people with support needs?
One (Housing and Support) CIC are a specialist provider of intensive housing management to vulnerable groups of people. As a newly formed not-for-profit community interest company we work with a variety of people who need help to overcome barriers in their lives. We work in partnership with people to provide high-quality accommodation and support and help them to learn the key skills needed to live independently and play an active role in their community, giving them access to a better future.
At One CIC, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to do great things.
About the role
This is a highly rewarding opportunity and an excellent time to join an organisation that is passionate about reducing homelessness and giving people access to a better life.
The role itself is highly autonomous and strategic and is a vital part of the senior leadership team which has impressive growth plans UK wide.
Reporting to the Chief Executive and working closely with the Directors, you will implement and drive initiatives to meet the objectives and goals of One CIC; and will proactively drive continuous service improvement plans to meet challenging targets and achieve the best value for the customers, their team and the future of the organisation.
As a leader you will manage the operation, which will include talent attraction, development, retention and performance of several individuals, such as: Housing Manager, Housing Support Officers and the wider support team.
As the safety of people is paramount, you will be accountable for managing risk and ensuring the organisation is compliant with current and ever-changing housing laws and recommendations.
You will manage seamless relationships with many internal and external stakeholders, inclusive of local housing teams, commissioners and partners. Nurturing these relationships and enabling them to identify and develop continued and future growth opportunities across the Yorkshire and North East Region
About you
Able to demonstrate extensive experience of strategically leading an operational service where you have implemented successful policies, procedures and continuous improvement initiatives, ideally within the housing or homeless sector or a similar not-for profit organisation.
You will be a commercially astute manager with proven experience of developing business opportunities and have a personal drive and ambition to meet One CIC's plans for growth and development.
With a proven passion for delivering excellent customer service and a genuine desire to help tenants, you will have first class communications skills and be able to build effective relationships with stakeholders.
By adopting a collaborative and supportive management style, you will be able to lead, influence and mentor with a strong emphasis on employee engagement and a personal commitment to tenant/customer involvement.
You will have an excellent track record in developing and overseeing outstanding support for people facing homelessness (or a related areas) such as supporting people to move on to their own accommodation, gain independence and/or reintegrate them back into a community setting.
How to apply
Please upload a copy of your CV, along with a covering letter which explains both why you are attracted to this post, and why you are the right person for us. Please limit your covering letter to no more than 1 page.
The closing date for applications is 9am, Monday 17th August, with first stage interviews taking place week commencing 17 th and 24 th August 2020 and final interviews scheduled for week commencing 7 th or 14 th September 2020.
At Student Minds we value student engagement and co-production. We believe that students with lived experience should be at the forefront of decisions that will impact their experience. We want to improve and enhance how we do this and we are looking for a Student Engagement Officer to help us achieve this.
We have a proud history of championing student engagement and co-production in designing and delivering student experience and we want to ensure that student voices feed into our programmes and initiatives at all levels. If this sounds like an appealing challenge then this could be the role for you!
As Student Engagement Officer you will be working in close collaboration with our Student Voice and Equality Lead to ensure Student Minds’ student engagement work is the best that it can be.
You will advance the work of the charity on a number of different projects. This is an excellent opportunity within an organisation that is small enough to see the direct benefit of your effort. This role is ideal for someone looking to enter into a career in student engagement, Higher Education and/or the charity sector.
For further information and to apply, please visit our website.
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Citizens Advice provides free, independent and impartial advice and information to help people resolve their problems. Each year our local offices across the country help 2.6 million people with their problems - either through face-to-face or telephone advice, or online. Our amazing data allows us to spot emerging issues quickly, making us uniquely placed to raise awareness of these issues and advocate for solutions.
The Expert Advice Team at Citizens Advice provides subject matter support and expertise to thousands of advisers across England and Wales, and helps to ensure the accuracy of our online content.
We support the local network of Citizens Advice services and our national online content team in major advice areas such as debt, benefits, housing, employment, immigration, family and consumer law. We do this through one to one consultancy with local advisers, one to many advice and training products and legal assurance of content. We also provide expert support to other functions such as public policy and news.
We are looking for an Employment Expert to work with us from now until 31 March 2021.This expert will provide legal and advice expertise in employment law to Citizens Advice internal teams and to the Citizens Advice network of local offices. To support the delivery of employment advice across the Citizens Advice network.
The location is flexible with travel to our offices in London, Leeds or Birmingham likely. Hours are flexible from 21.75 to 36.25 hours per week and we are happy to discuss potential part-time and flexible working arrangements with prospective applicants.
This role is based in a team of high-performing subject matter experts and qualified lawyers. The postholder must have an interest in law and experience of legal research, but a law degree is not a requirement and you don’t need to be a qualified solicitor or barrister.
Our offices are currently closed due to coronavirus, with employees working from home. We are open to discussion about flexible working, and are willing to consider both full or part time working.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.
Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.
Citizens Advice provides free, independent and impartial advice and information to help people resolve their problems. Each year our local offices across the country help 2.6 million people with their problems - either through face-to-face or telephone advice, or online. Our amazing data allows us to spot emerging issues quickly, making us uniquely placed to raise awareness of these issues and advocate for solutions.
The Expert Advice Team at Citizens Advice provides subject matter support and expertise to thousands of advisers across England and Wales, and helps to ensure the accuracy of our online content.
We support the local network of Citizens Advice services and our national online content team in major advice areas such as debt, benefits, housing, employment, immigration, family and consumer law. We do this through one to one consultancy with local advisers, one to many advice and training products and legal assurance of content. We also provide expert support to other functions such as public policy and news.
We are looking for a Consumer Expert to work with us from now until 31 March 2021.This expert will provide legal and advice expertise in consumer law to Citizens Advice internal teams and to the Citizens Advice network of local offices. To support the delivery of consumer advice across the Citizens Advice network.
The location is flexible with travel to our offices in London, Leeds or Birmingham likely. Hours are flexible from 21.75 to 36.25 hours per week and we are happy to discuss potential part-time and flexible working arrangements with prospective applicants.
This role is based in a team of high-performing subject matter experts and qualified lawyers. The postholder must have an interest in law and experience of legal research, but a law degree is not a requirement and you don’t need to be a qualified solicitor or barrister.
Our offices are currently closed due to coronavirus, with employees working from home. We are open to discussion about flexible working, and are willing to consider both full or part time working.
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented throughout Citizens Advice. We are a member of the race equality campaign at Business in the Community, the Prince’s responsible business network and are committed to improving employment opportunities for ethnic minorities across the UK. We also welcome applications from, LGB and Trans and non binary candidates.
We have made a positive commitment to employing disabled people and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role as set out in role profiles.
Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.