Movement Building Lead

About the role

Movement Building Regularly bring together people from our community and the wider movement to build relationships and encourage collaboration in the form of meetings, socials, events or workshops. Host and/or facilitate these sessions when appropriate. Be our frontline relationship holder with grassroots and community groups, driving forward our efforts to build relationships. This includes mapping, outreach, and devising and delivering activities that foster trust and collaboration between those groups and new economy organisations. Develop and run a set of activities that helps to build the capacity of organisations and groups working on economic change, particularly those working in communities and/or led by people with lived-experience of marginalisation and economic hardship. Manage existing communications infrastructure for the Economic Change Community, including managing our whatsapp groups, e-lists, contact database, group management documentation, implementation of our culture and accountability policy and other tasks. Help embed anti-oppressive approaches in all our movement building activities, ensuring we are creating welcoming spaces that value diversity, address unequal power dynamics, cultivate essential relational skills and emotional intelligence, hold constructive disagreement and are zero tolerance for harassment, bullying and discrimination. Support the team to build and mobilise a base of supportive policy-makers, opinion-formers, progressive business leaders, key thinkers in academia, and new economy practitioners in support of key new economy ideas and proposals. Organisation Represent ECU at external events. Build strong cross-team relationships, keeping colleagues informed of key movement building developments and consulting them appropriately on relevant decisions. Contribute to organisational planning, strategy development and monitoring and evaluation. General Actively support anti-oppression, equity, diversity and inclusion within the organisation and embed this approach in our work Work out of hours and undertake occasional domestic and overseas work trips as required to effectively perform the role, with flexibility depending on your circumstances. Undertake any other reasonable duties as may be required. Person Specification Essential Attributes, Skills & Experience Experience of building relationships and enabling collaboration between people, groups, and organisations with diverse perspectives in a civil society, social movement, trade union or political campaigning context. An understanding of power and how political change occurs, especially the role of civil society and social movements in achieving change. Personal experience of poverty or economic marginalisation, enabling a grounded understanding of the challenges faced by the communities we serve and the ability to build trust with those communities. Experience of working directly with people with lived-experience of the issues you were working on. A skilled facilitator, with good experience of designing, delivering and evaluating impactful group work, and knowledge of (and/or keenness to learn) anti-oppressive facilitation practices. Strong interpersonal skills - approachable, empathetic and able to build trust with people from a wide range of backgrounds. Comfortable navigating disagreement and conflict, and finding a way through difficult situations calmly and constructively. Clear and adaptable communicator - able to adjust your style for different audiences to enable participation, with strong listening, written and verbal skills. Excellent planning, organisational and project delivery skills, with the ability to manage and prioritise a complex workload, work independently, take initiative and adapt to changing needs and circumstances. Experience using communications channels like email, slack and whatsapp, doing data management for contacts and managing data protection. Commitment to ECU's values and vision. Desirable 1. Understanding of GDPR and data protection requirements. We encourage anyone who meets these criteria to apply. If you are unsure about whether you meet the criteria, please get in touch with any questions - we are keen to hear from as wide and diverse a set of candidates as possible ( recruitment@econchange.org ). While it will be advantageous to have specific experience of working on economics or of line management, it is by no means essential, and we would be happy to support candidates without these experiences to get up-to-speed in the role. Benefits We follow a shorter working week , with a 32-hour standard working week. Choice of when to begin and end work (within certain limits) Annual cost of living increase (dependent on funding constraints) 8% Pension - of your qualifying earnings regardless of employee contribution 21 days holiday per year (pro rata for part time), plus bank holidays and an additional period of paid leave in between Christmas and New Year (usually 3 days) Annual le