Job Opportunity: Do you want to join the Citizen Schools team?

The Citizen Organising Foundation is looking for an exceptional candidate to join its dynamic, innovative Citizen Schools initiative.


You would be responsible for helping to support and implement the four strands of Citizen Schools, which all aim to build strong, inclusive schools which embrace and enable their students, staff and parents as active citizens who believe in their power influence and improve their communities.


The successful candidate will work closely with Citizen Schools Co-ordinator Ben Hammond, and will share responsibility for:

1. Supporting the Citizen Schools Alliance - a network of 50+ primary schools, secondary schools, youth groups - with trainings in active citizenship education and community organising for students, staff and parents/carers, through guidance and advice, and by building one-to-one public relationships


2. Delivering the Citizen Schools Pathway - liaising with diverse members of school communities, borough decision-makers and service providers; delivering inter-school training for school teams, helping to organise events, communicating and broadcasting progress and outcomes to a wide audience


3. Building the Citizen Schools Community - facilitating the increasing membership of the online forum, encouraging use and sharing of resources and ideas, creating the forum as a hub to link all four initiatives and enable members to interact and support each other


4. Designing the Citizen Schools Award - bringing together an advisory group to steer the creation of the award, its criteria, its process, its administration and national roll-out.

To be considered, candidates must:

• Have teaching experience in UK secondary or primary schools


• Be available to begin the post in August/September 2009


• Have a track record of effecting change or enabling others to do so


• Have an interest in and emerging understanding of community organising and/or other processes of campaigning and change-making

We are currently seeking expressions of interest from those who might fit the bill, prior to a formal application and selection procedure. If you're interested and would like to find out more, please refer to elsewhere in this blog and our new website for further details of the four strands of our work. Please also register your interest by contacting Ben Hammond, Citizen Schools Co-ordinator, directly: click here for Ben's contact details.