Job Opportunity – Community Coordinator

Salary: £20,500 pro rata
Hours: Part time role, 3 days a week (equivalent to 24 hours)
Start date: January 2021, contract to April 2022 (potential for extension, dependent on funding)

Deadline: Monday 30 November, 5pm

The NewBridge Project produces a programme in consultation and collaboration with artists and local communities. Our programme builds solidarity with the people around us, and is community-centred, experimental, collaborative and socially conscious at its heart, producing ongoing programmes such as For Solidarity – which networks social and environmental justice organisations in the north east. We want to continue the important work we are currently doing with local communities through creating capacity to nurture these relationships and time to build new ones. We are also preparing to move to a new premise in Spring / Summer 2021, and we are keen that we offer an active space that will be a resource for the local and artistic community alike.

The Community Coordinator will provide administrative, organisational and delivery support across our community programme, including; Shieldfield Youth Programme – a new children and youth programme being developed with Dwellbeing community benefit society; social events such as communal meals; education activity such as monthly workshop open days – NewBridge have a number of member-led workshops such as ceramics, woodwork, and darkroom.

It is also vital that the whole team look for new ways to engage people, at a time when many of our usual ways of working (events, community meals) are not possible. We don’t know what the situation will be in the new year, and the Community Coordinator will need to be prepared to adapt, think on their feet, and reach people in new and inclusive ways.

We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, organised and self-motivated, who is a good listener and can communicate with lots of different people.