Welcome to Participatory City
Exciting times! We are about to scale up the work we have been developing over the last 7 years through a brand new organisation - the Participatory City Foundation.
Working with an incredible group of Trustees and partners we are launching an ambitious idea — to make practical participation a key building block for improving the everyday life of residents throughout the borough. Our partners include Barking and Dagenham Council, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Big Lottery Fund and City Bridge Trust, and we will be building collaborative partnerships continuously in the borough and with a number of cities across the world. Departing from the old ideas of ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ we’re building a new type of distributed support system in the borough. Over the next 5 years Participatory City will work with local residents and organisations to create a high level of new activity. With a budget of £6.4 million Every One Every Day will grow a new network of 250 projects and 100 businesses.
Participatory City is searching for
Project Designers (x4)
to work on Neighbourhood Teams within the Every One Every Day Initiative: Barking & Dagenham .
The Every One Every Day Initiative: Barking & Dagenham
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has long been an area of change. Recent demographic changes in particular have challenged traditional ideas of the area and of its population. There is a pressing need for the lives of people of living here to improve. It’s the ninth most deprived local authority in the country with significant health, economic and cohesion issues.
However the borough is also very rich in talent, creativity and enthusiasm, with brilliant resources, including community centres, schools and parks. The people we have spoken to in the neighbourhoods we visited during our research phase tells a very positive story. People we met are honest, proud with a rich history and heritage. They are increasingly diverse and young. And like almost all communities they are full of ideas … and want to help create a better future for themselves and their families.
The Every One Every Day initiative intends to provide a platform for this creativity and energy. As the borough grows, so too will the improvements to everyday life grow for the people living there.
About the Role
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 three 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
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.
Salary: up to £21,500 - £33,250 per year, depending on experience.
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.
Skills
- 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
Knowledge & Experience
ESSENTIAL
- Experience of working with diverse teams
DESIRABLE
- Experience of co-production techniques.
- Experience of participation culture.
- Interested in social design and system change.
How To Apply
First, please, read through the full job pack for more information about the application process and position itself.
To apply: Email your CV (in PDF format) and 2 Page Application (in PDF format) to Operations Manager: chris@weareeveryone.org with an email subject line of ‘Neighbourhood Projects Designer - [Your Name] application.’
If you have any questions about any aspect of this role, please contact Wayne: wayne@participatorycity.org
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