Neighbourhood Action Coordinator

The role will lead on Pembroke House’s Neighbourhood Action projects to grow the number of residents taking collective action on local issues in their neighbourhood. Increase resident engagement across all Walworth Living Room and Pembroke House activities.

Day-to-day you’ll be working across a range of Pembroke House programmes and neighbourhood projects, working closely with residents, local organisations and team members to form relationships which build towards action. A knowledge of community organising methodology (see for example Community Organisers, Act Build Change or Citizen’s UK) would be beneficial, but not essential, as there will also be other approaches or experiences that you could draw on for this role.

Whatever your approach, you will need to adapt the way you work for different parts of the work - from taking a strong and confident lead in running a door-knocking campaign, to working with other team members to support wider engagement for their programmes.

If this job is done well, a range of groups in Walworth will be taking meaningful action to make a difference to the neighbourhood. Individuals will be growing their skills and capacity to collaborate, the groups will be building momentum, and beginning to affect real change in the neighbourhood.

For a full job description, please refer to the Pembroke House website:
https://www.pembrokehouse.org.uk/jobs/

Experience - Essential:
- Experience of successfully encouraging others to
take action in a community programme, activity or
action.
- Experience of working collaboratively with others
to take action in a community setting.
- Experience of working within a racially and
ethnically diverse community.

Experience - Desired
- A strong personal connection to Walworth, e.g. as
a resident, through family, or work.
- Community organising, or campaigning work
- Experience of comms/publicity for campaigns or
community programs
- Conflict mediation experience
- Experience in reporting impact, using monitoring
data to track projects, inform decision making,
and adapt working strategies.
- Fluency in a language other than English,
particularly Spanish or Arabic
- Familiarity with Airtable, Google Suite, and/or
Adobe Suite.

Pembroke House is a centre for social action and residential community in
Walworth, south-east London.

We were founded in 1885, by students from Pembroke College, Cambridge, as one
of the first settlement houses. Shocked by growing poverty and inequality, the
pioneers of the settlement movement sought a new approach: taking up residence
to live, work and solve problems alongside local communities. We continue to
share a building with St Christopher’s church, which has its routes in the same
student settlement.

For over 130 years, we’ve been working to bridge traditional divides and unite
people – whatever their background or walk of life – in building a better Walworth.