Senior Organiser, Liverpool Citizens

6 months ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Citizens UK Full time

Job description

**Citizens UK**

Citizens UK is a people power alliance of diverse local communities working together for the common good. We aim to develop leaders, strengthen civic organisations and make change. Our 550 member communities are deeply rooted in their local areas and connect every day to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Through the method of community organising we enable people experiencing powerlessness to develop their leadership and come together with the power and strategy to make change.

This leads to hundreds of neighbourhood improvements - from zebra crossings outside primary schools to renovated public toilets in cemeteries. And it leads to some of the biggest campaign impacts in the UK, such as winning over £2 billion of wages through the UK Living Wage campaign, securing a legal cap on the cost of credit to control exploitative lending, and ending the detention of children for immigration purposes. We enable local campaigns to grow into large-scale social change projects such as the Living Wage Foundation, Parent Action, and Sponsor Refugees, that form an integral part of our theory of change. The most prominent of these is the rapidly growing Living Wage Foundation with a network of over 14,000 accredited Living Wage Employers across the UK.

**Liverpool Citizens**

Liverpool Citizens will be one of the newest chapters of Citizens UK. It has a current membership of seventeen diverse civil society organisations who are committed to working together for the common good. The independent alliance will train civil society leaders to run winning campaigns on a range of issues affecting people’s lives. The alliance is yet to agree its priority campaigns but early emerging themes include the cost of living, housing, and transport among others.

**Purpose**

As a Senior Organiser for Liverpool Citizens, you will bring communities together to drive change. This role will work closely with local civic institutions, such as churches, mosques, synagogues, schools, universities, housing associations, NHS Trusts, and community groups to:

- develop the leadership of people within those organisations - the 'leaders' who lead the campaigns we work on
- help them identify the changes they want to see and create strategies to win those changes
- strengthen organisations’ own abilities to achieve their missions.

This includes listening to members of the community to find common issues and then planning strategy and action to engage decision-makers to hold them to account. All of this work is underpinned by the knowledge that everyday people have the ability to shape the world around them. This work will be rooted locally, but you will be a part of a bigger national drive to make change alongside diverse local alliances across the UK.

**Main Responsibilities**

Working as the Senior Organiser in Liverpool for Citizens UK your main responsibilities will be to:

- **Build strong working relationships** with a diverse range of people, from those at the grassroots to senior leaders of member organisations to politicians, journalists and funders
- **Support diverse leaders** from Liverpool Citizens members to make change, through coaching, training and action
- **Develop ambitious winning campaigns** for social justice and the common good
- **Develop and implement strategy and workplans** with a wide range of member organisations like schools, universities, faith communities, charities to enable them to win campaigns together
- **Bring new member organisations into the alliance** and develop new partnerships with large organisations
- **Raise money** through membership income and grants from trusts and foundations and **manage a budget** to ensure the alliance is financially sustainable
- **Manage political relationships** locally and regionally
- **Deliver training** in the method of community organising
- **Deepen your professional practice** in community organising and **support the development of others**

You will be part of a dynamic and diverse staff team at Citizens UK and we will support you to succeed. Your development in the role will be a priority for us. We will provide consistent line management support and opportunities for learning & development including formal training, shadowing, peer learning, observation and feedback.

**Person Specification**

Please see below for details of the person specification.

(D) Desirable, (E) Essential

**QUALIFICATIONS**

Evidence of further and continuing study including professional qualification (D)

**EXPERIENCE**
- At least 3 years previous campaign/community organising experience (D)
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team; including motivating and developing more junior staff (E)
- Experience of risk taking to create a project/situation/event that illustrates your values (E)
- Experience of successful fundraising (E)
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects on time and to standard (E)
- Clear evidence of campaigns won a



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