Participatory City will be supporting people to participate in everyday projects and start community businesses, running a Neighbourhood School Programme so that people from the borough, the rest of the UK and other countries can learn with us to bring those ideas to their
cities. Our research programme will continually measure and monitor the impact we’re having and will codify our approach to make it easily replicable elsewhere. And our work with the local authority will focus on combining the services of the council with the emerging participatory system ecosystem. We are looking for a
Projects Designer (m/f)
in Full-Time
in London
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About this role
The Neighbourhood Shop teams will be based in high street shops across the borough, and grow a network of project spaces, giving rise to nearby Hubs in estates, children’s centres, village halls, shops, nursing homes and other local places. You’ll be responsible for and working at one of the Neighbourhood Shops and will be collaborating
with other Neighbourhood Project Designers at other Every One Every Day shops. You may be required to work at different locations across the borough as demand and needs require. There will be 2 Neighbourhood Shops in year one, growing to 5 in year 3.
You will be one of the two full time staff members. You’ll be trained as expert facilitators who will work primarily designing new projects and activities closely with residents and their ideas — supporting a rapid design and testing process. Your role will also include logistical support — finding spaces, buying equipments, ensuring health and safety, building partnerships with local shops, school and businesses, promoting projects and opportunities and tracking outputs. You’ll be an inspiring role model for all of the people you work with, using your excellent people skills to help your team shine, and to bring out the best of everyone in every situation. These project teams will be responsible for ensuring that levels of participation continue to grow and opportunities continue to diversify and expand. You’ll work closely with the Co- Production Lab Team to look for opportunities to integrate the services network with the participatory projects network.
You and your team will be given training to perform specialist project design, prototyping and evaluation. The Neighbourhood Shop teams will have a thorough grounding in ‘participation culture’ project models. You will be trained in using a number of strategic tools. The Neighbourhood Shop team will work with the apprentices, trainees and university placements as an integral part of the team and will support the hands on learning that will be coordinated through the school. One day per week all Neighbourhood Shop teams will come together to plan, using development evaluation processes to ensure they are connecting and utilising all the emerging opportunities.
Duties/Responsibilities of this role
- Setup the Neighbourhood Shop and Hubs; be located in these.
- Use ‘Participation Culture and Models’ to build the project ecosystem.
- Ensure all participation experiences are positive and that developing culture is open and inclusive to ensure regular participation.
- Use co-production methods with other Participatory City staff and wider neighbourhood participants.
- Train and develop apprentices/trainees/placements in skills with support of the Neighbourhood School.
- Make Neighbourhood Shop and Hub spaces welcoming; invite people in to discuss project and to develop ideas.
- Make local contacts with the neighbourhood-log/map/document.
- Pull ideas and people together to start projects.
- Share risk of activity with residents and organisations to ensure the success of projects.
- Organise and facilitate events, festivals, workshops, co-design sessions with variety of people and organisations.
- Safe operation of the Neighbourhood Shops and projects.
- Produce print and online content suitable for designers.
- Record keeping, measuring, monitoring.
- Work with researchers to assist with data gathering.
- Work with tutors and mentors to support placements, apprenticeships and trainees.
- Buy materials and equipment for projects in line with set budgets.
Person Specification
For this role: We’re recruiting for a people person, a relationship builder, someone with bags of enthusiasm. Please apply if you’re excited about this role, even if you don’t have every requirement listed below:
- Excellent people person - thriving on working with a diverse group of people.
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
- Action orientated - able to get things done to time and budget, including working with a number of different people.
- Able to draw out themes and patterns.
- Experience of working with diverse teams.
- Experience of co-production techniques.
- Experience of participation culture.
- Interested in social design and system change.
Personal Qualities
- Energetic- Great at face to face communication- able to convey ideas, generate excitement, motivate and encourage people to get involved.
- Treats people equally - sees people as individuals.
- Persistent- strong follow-up ensuring that excitement is generated.
- Relationship builder - able to talk with local people, shops, businesses to surface opportunities.
- Curious with a learning mindset.
- Being outcome focussed - dogged pursuit of objectives and outcomes (e.g. membership, opportunities).
- Resilient - able to bring the same energy to your work at the end of the day, as you were at the start and to thrive on the everyday ups and downs.
- A commitment to achieving social change, where everyone is able to participate and no - one is left behind.
Find out all the information about this role here.
To apply:
Email your CV (in PDF format) and 2 Page Application (in PDF format) to Wayne: wayne@participatorycity.org with an email subject line of ‘Neighbourhood Projects Designer - [Your Name] application.’
We are looking forward to your application!
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