Minute Taker/Secretary/Admin | Community Assemblies team

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 09:30-11:00 on Zoom
Meeting Format:Conference call
Meeting Schedule:Weekly. Fortnightly if the role is shared
Other admin tasks can be done as and when
Essential Skills:Note / minute-taking
Desired Skills:Manage an email inbox
Accessibility considerations:Access to a computer required. You would need to be able to use a computer/keyboard and participate in Zoom meetings. Closed captions can be used during meetings.

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 a campaign group

Group 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 obtain, record and share required responses to Assembly recommendations from their councils, MPs, or others with relevant responsibilities.
  • To advise and support local escalations until 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

The key role of the Minute Taker / Secretary is to ensure that contributions to meetings, decisions and action points, are accurately recorded.

For more information on the Community Assemblies Campaign group, the Minute Taker / Secretary role and XR’s Decision-making processes, please select the links below:
Community Assemblies
Secretary mandate
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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