Community weaver/organiser

Part-Time, Contract Community Development Show the salary

Job Description

What is the mahi?

Tauiwi Tautoko is looking for an experienced community weaver/organiser to look after our greatest strength: our people. 

In this contracting role you will be connecting, activating, sustaining, and strengthening the Tauiwi Tautoko community of trained volunteers. You will also be a part of nurturing the relationships we hold with others in the ecosystem of change for a Te Tiriti-based Aotearoa.

What are the core responsibilities?

  • Strengthen the sense of community, purpose, and mutual accountability with our trained volunteers

  • Work to keep trained volunteers active in the anti-racism practice and engaged with each other

  • Help maximise the skills, passions, interests of our trained volunteers so this work and community are increasingly collectively owned and strengthened by volunteers

  • Create opportunities for collaboration and practice-oriented learning that serves the kaupapa, both within our community and with other groups in the ecosystem of change

  • This includes:

    • Regular engagement and management of the online Tauiwi Tautoko community 

    • Organising opportunities on and offline for the trained community to continue to meet, learn and practise together 

    • Organising and convening working groups on specific tasks with volunteers (eg tech support, codesign of conversation guides)

  • Transition newly trained volunteers to the broader volunteer community to ways to stay involved and contribute suited to them; secondary role of supporting participants of formal trainings (8-10 weeks ea, 2-3x/yr) to help with onboarding and retention

All of the above are activities that are already part of Tauiwi Tautoko.  However, we invite you to bring new energy, ideas, and heart to develop and enhance the ways Tauiwi Tautoko is experienced as a community of reciprocity, aroha, and manaakitanga, strengthening the community. Your work will ensure that volunteers feel connected, supported and, most of all, remain committed and active in this work beyond the formal training.

This role complements the work others on the team are doing to deliver the formal trainings each year, and will be supported by the Tauiwi Tautoko lead, training delivery teams, administrator, tangata whenua advisory group, tauiwi advisory group, and broader volunteer community.

The skills and strengths we are looking for: 

  • Knowledge of, passion for, and commitment to Te Tiriti and racial justice in Aotearoa

  • Experience and expertise in the relational arts of community building, leading from behind, and making the movement irresistible 

  • Excellence at building and maintaining high trust relationships

  • A strong ability to think strategically about the bigger picture, and how we might harness the energy and strengths of our volunteers and unlock that volunteer power

  • Attunement to differences in positionality within the tauiwi community, reflected in how this diverse community is engaged

  • Comfortable with digital tools and social media platforms

Organisation

Tauiwi Tautoko

Job Summary

Community organiser

Salary

Contracting at $45/hr. Average 15 to 20hrs per week

How to apply

Please send a CV and a cover letter to Annette at annette@tauiwitautoko.com with the subject line: “Application: Community weaver/organiser ” by 12 February. If you would like to include an alternate way to introduce yourself and share what you’d bring to the role (eg video recording) you are very welcome to do so. We look forward to hearing from you!

If you aren’t sure if you have all the skills required for the role, or you’re having a moment of imposter syndrome, please reach out. We are happy to talk over any questions y

Sector

Not for Profit

Cause (Sustainable Development Goals)

Other

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