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Community Link · Job description

Anyone

Recruit, support and coordinate the leads who run Community Circle.

Role name

Community Link

Part of

Community

In 10 words

Recruit, support and coordinate the leads who run Community Circle.

Activities / responsibilities

  • Recruit a lead for each Community area: Accessibility, Inclusion, Families, The Point, Community Engagement and Theme Camps Liaison. Look for co-leads where you can, unless someone is already a confident organiser.
  • Mentor your leads through the year and help them build confidence, rather than taking their work over.
  • Step in and cover an area yourself if a lead's capacity changes at short notice.
  • Go to Circle Links meetings with the Event Link, the Board and the Links from every other circle.
  • Take Community's updates, plans, blockers and requests to those meetings, and bring back what other circles need from us.
  • Keep in regular touch with your leads through check-ins and the Community Circle Signal group.
  • Look after the Community inbox. Forward messages to the right lead, or reply yourself when that's quicker.
  • Bring the Board in when a complaint or request is sensitive or difficult.
  • Look after the Community Google account and Drive. Search for past documents and reuse them before starting something new.
  • Set up this year's Community project board from last year's, so each lead starts with a checklist, past timelines and some history.
  • Pass on what participants tell us, and speak up for people whose voices might otherwise not be heard.

The best bit about this role

Community is one of the most people-focused parts of organising Nest. Most of the job is helping other people do good work, and making the event more welcoming for people who might otherwise find it hard to come.

You'll be great at this if you

  • enjoy helping other people succeed more than doing the work yourself
  • can stay calm and kind in emotionally difficult conversations, and know when to ask the Board for help
  • are happy to mentor people who are organising for the first time
  • like keeping lots of threads moving across different teams
  • can make regular online meetings and check-ins through the year

Time commitment

When
Commitment
Pre event
Circle Links meetings online, about 90 minutes each: monthly early on, roughly fortnightly as the event gets closer. Plus regular check-ins with your leads and keeping an eye on the Community inbox.
During event
On site as the first contact for your leads, and ready to step in if an area is short of people.
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