Arts and Food Justice Group Coordinator[1]
About the role
We are looking for someone who is both experienced in community organising and passionate about local creativity, food and environmental justice to lead on the coordination of a local food justice group called the ‘blueprint architects’. They will lead on community outreach and organising ‘blueprint architect group’ convenings for the purpose of:
- Enabling mutual support and empowerment within the group, strengthening the local movement for food justice, sustainability and redistribution.
- Surfacing and gathering the group’s collective wisdom on local food justice to inform a community-led research process
- Building three ‘Future of Food’ arts installations, backed up by our community-led research on how to build better, more resilient and fair urban food systems.
We strongly encourage applications from people who live or work in Tower Hamlets and/or who have a meaningful cultural connection to the area and East London more broadly.
Details
Application deadline: Wednesday 15th of February 2023, 09:00 am
Hours: 3-4 days (based on a 40 hour week): 24-32 hours per week. We are able to offer flexible working hours (24-32 hours per week) based on the chosen candidate’s availability and preference.
Contract: 2 years, subject to a 6 month probationary period. There will be a possibility of extension, conditional on funding.
Start date: 17th of April 2023.
Salary: £38,981 (pro rata) base rate, adjusted according to our Socially Just Waging System[2] (see Terms and Conditions below).
Location: The official workplace is Oxford House, in Bethnal Green.
We will expect the chosen candidate to come into the office at least once a week, as well as for other in-person meetings. All Platform staff are required to attend monthly meetings, the majority of which are in-person.
Working with:
- Food Justice Research & Arts Producer (Laurie Mompelat aka Lauriem)
Responsible to:
- Platform’s Management Group and Trustees
Please see the full application pack[3] for more information and guidance on how to apply.
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- Socially Just Waging System: https://platformlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/social-justice-waging-system-dec-2005.pdf
- full application pack: https://platformlondon.org/wp-content/plugins/pdfjs-viewer-shortcode/pdfjs/web/viewer.php?file=https://platformlondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Arts-Food-Justice-Group-Coordinator-Job-description-1.pdf&attachment_id=34569&dButton=true&pButton=true&oButton=false&sButton=true#zoom=auto&pagemode=none&_wpnonce=14b1c3357b
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