Internal Coordinator | Community Assemblies

Group:Community Assemblies
Posted:09/12/2024
Location:From home role with XR UK (UK Wide)
Hours per week:2-4
No. spaces available:2
Meeting Time:Tues 9:30-11:00
Meeting Format:Conference call
Meeting Schedule:Attend the Tuesday meetings whenever possible. Other hours flexible
Essential Skills:Good team builder
Good organisational, planning and communication skills
Willingness to learn new digital tools/platforms
Desired Skills:An understanding of assemblies, deliberative democracy and familiarity with XR platforms.
Accessibility considerations:If you're hard of hearing (closed captions can be used during meetings) or visually impaired, then the online meeting aspect may be a barrier. You would need to be able to use a computer/keyboard.

The Commmuity Assemblies team is a growing and well-functioning happy team of people who are passionate about promoting assemblies to show how things can be done differently in politics!

Within Extinction Rebellion’s Self-organising System, Community Assemblies is currently a campaign group however we are in the process of changing to a UK working group and the proposal is to become a sub group of Local Grassroots Support [LGS] which sits in Operations.

Community Assemblies Scope:

  • To support Extinction Rebellion Local Groups with planning, organising, publicising, setting up and running Community Assemblies alongside their local allies.
  • To help Local Groups and alliances record and share Assembly recommendations for their councils, MPs, or others with relevant responsibilities.
  • To advise and support local Assemblies until positive engagement is achieved.
  • To help everyone involved in Extinction Rebellion to understand that Community Assemblies are a deliberative democracy pathway to our Third Demand - a Citizens’ Assembly on Climate and Ecological Justice.

There are three different types of assemblies - to understand the difference between Citizens’, Community and People’s assemblies, please read this explainer on the Rebel Toolkit

For more information on the Internal Coordinator mandate, please select the link below:
Internal Coordinator mandate

The Purpose and Accountabilities are:

  • The team is healthy and achieving its mandate
  • Stewarding the team’s immediate and longer-term priorities, and aligning its work with the broader circle’s plan
  • Proposing roles and projects the team needs to fulfil its purpose and accountabilities
  • Supporting the work of role-holders and sub-circles, and reviewing their work at regular intervals
  • Filling team roles without extended delay, or proposing they are dissolved if no longer needed
  • Inviting people with relevant skills and abilities to join the team as required
  • Maintaining an awareness of the policies of the team and its broader circles
  • Maintaining an awareness of what is happening in the wider organism, and communicating regularly with the team's External Coordinator
  • Holding the Group Admin role whenever no one else has been appointed

Decision Making Processes explainer on the Rebel Toolkit

This role is being advertised by the following working group:

Community Assemblies

Location: XR UK (UK Wide)

We support Local XR Groups in holding Community Assemblies and achieving their inclusion in local decision-making. In doing this, to have: - built enduring local alliances for climate and ecological justice. - built agency, purpose and trust within local communities through Community Assembly engagement. - demonstrated to local communities that this deliberative democratic process works and can be carried through nationally and completely in the Citizens’ Assembly for Climate and Ecological Justice.

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