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SalaryOur community currently operates two monthly three-hour Repair Cafés in Haringey community centres at weekends. We're looking for someone to help us attract more volunteers so we can open two more. This is very much a hands-on role, largely home-based with some weekend work in Community Centres in Haringey.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Your most important responsibility: develop our community of members, volunteers and repairers.
- Communications: currently print, Facebook and Harringayonline
- Helping advance the repair and reuse plans our community have decided to adopt.
Person specification
Essential Skills
- Managing and developing communities
- Strong written and oral communication
- Strong management, collaboration and partnership building
- Good negotiating, influencing and conflict resolution
PLEASE NOTE: If you cannot demonstrate experience exercising these skills, especially if you have no direct experience of Community Development, please do not apply.
Experience
- Developing and maintaining effective communications and collaborations with the public and stakeholders
- Designing, implementing and managing multiple programmes.
Knowledge
- Community development
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Attributes
- An open, collaborative and inclusive working style
- Professionalism and integrity
Probationary period
There is a two month probationary period. We have funding for a year.
Recruitment process
We'll let you know if you've made the shortlist within three days after the call for CVs finishes. We will then interview each member of the shortlist separately, first by Zoom, then in person at a mutually convenient time. Each candidate will be asked the same pre-prepared questions by a three-person interview panel, one of whom will be the Chair of Trustees. After everyone has been interviewed, we'll let you know the outcome within three days.
Our funders ask that the selected person show their right to work
Diversity Monitoring
Haringey Fixers is committed to recruiting, retaining and developing a workforce that reflects the diverse communities that we exist to benefit. As part of this recruitment process, we therefore wish to collect and analyse diversity information as part of our applications process to help our Human Resources processes remain fair and transparent.
When applying for the role, please also click here to fill out our diversity monitoring form. Information you supply will be kept separate from your application.
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About Haringey Fixers
We are a community-led Haringey charity established in 2022, with ambitious plans. We aim for measurable improvements in Repair and Reuse in Haringey. We expect to open at least two new Repair Cafés this year - you will be our first employee.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining your motivation in applying and how you meet the criteria for the position by midnight on Sunday 11th February 2024.
