Part Time

Community Organiser at Big Local Works

Play a key role to support communities and individuals to have a say in how their community develops, but also take an active part in shaping South Bermondsey.

London | 22 Oct 2025

Are you an experienced community organiser looking to make a real difference in an urban community? Do you have experience of working with minoritised and marginalised communities? Are you a people-person with the skills and tenacity to help local people start exciting new initiatives?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team at Big Local Works (BLW) as our Community Organiser. Based on a historic Market Square recently refurbished with £2m from the GLA, we want to develop a more people-powered regeneration to sit alongside the massive property development happening all around us.

As well as driving economic improvements, we want to help create a more tolerant, cohesive, and vibrant local community where everybody is welcome. Part of that is to help local people create more community events, activities, and enterprises that give people the chance to collaborate together and build a lively community where people work and play together.

We need someone with the imagination, creativity and skill to support communities and individuals to have a say in how their community develops, but also take an active part in shaping the area. We have already helped many local people set up their own initiatives, building their confidence and helping them find resources – including the Bermondsey Literature festival, Latin markets, and a range of dance, ecology and arts projects. This role could help shape the future of South Bermondsey and help us make a great place even better – with a more inclusive economy and community for all.

Key to this is better involvement and increasing the visibility of people from a wider range of backgrounds, in a highly divided area. You’ll play a key role in fostering a welcoming community by helping navigate occasional conflicts, with support from your manager, and approaching challenging interactions with empathy and professionalism.

If this sounds like an exciting challenge, please take a look at the job spec and apply using the instructions there.

Opportunity details

Type

Part Time

Level

Intermediate

Online

In person only

In Person

London, United Kingdom

Compensation

£24,000-£25,600 per year

Closes

22 Oct 2025

Organisation

Big Local Works

Big Local Works is a community-focused economic inclusion and regeneration charity based in the highly deprived South Bermondsey area of South East London.

Big Local Works is a community-focused economic inclusion and regeneration charity based in the highly deprived South Bermondsey area of South East London. We want to help create a thriving, inclusive local economy and community in which everyone can participate.

To make this happen, we maximise local people’s financial and economic wellbeing to reduce poverty and hardship, and give them support to find sustainable, active routes out of poverty, including through employment and enterprise. In order to make that possible, we help to build a thriving local economy that works for all, during a time of intensive local regeneration. Additionally, we aim to encourage and grow a more integrated, connected and tolerant local community.