Part Time

Community Organiser – Enterprise and Engagement at Big Local Works

This new post, funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charity, requires a skilled and energetic individual to harness and stimulate community energies.

London | 7 Jul 2024

Are you an experienced community organiser looking to make a real difference in an urban community, particularly with BAME and marginalised groups? Are you a strategic thinker, a doer, and a people-person?

Join Big Local Works (BLW) as our Community Organiser – Enterprise and Engagement.

Based on a recently refurbished historic market, we want to develop a people-powered regeneration, led by and for local residents, to sit alongside extensive property development happening in the area.

This new post, funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Charity, requires a skilled and energetic individual to harness and stimulate community energies.

Our approach focuses on involving people from diverse backgrounds and encouraging them to develop their own enterprises and initiatives, especially (although exclusively) related to micro-enterprise and economic participation. We want local people's voices to be heard, but more than that - we want them to take an active part in a community's regeneration..

We strongly encourage applicants from minority/marginalised communities, and value personal experience and connection to our mission alongside professional skills.

Opportunity details

Type

Part Time

Level

Intermediate

Online

In person only

In person

Market Pl, London, London, SE16 3UQ, United Kingdom

Compensation

£24,000-£25,600 per year

Closes

7 Jul 2024

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.