Bankside Neighbourhood Forum Community Organiser

Job Aims
• To help raise awareness of Bankside Neighbourhood Plan across the local residential communities.
• To work with the Bankside Neighbourhood Forum to gather the views and priorities of local residents, businesses and communities of interest to inform the Bankside Neighbourhood Plan.
• To collate all consultation material and outcomes into a Statement of Community Involvement, which outlines all consultation undertaken by the Bankside Neighbourhood Forum.
• Work with the neighbourhood plan board to achieve a strong mandate in the referendum
Duties
• Identify key individuals, groups and organisations in the area and develop and deliver strategies to gain their input in writing the plan and ensure they are aware of and vote for the plan
• Identify hard to reach groups and develop and deliver strategies to gain their input in writing the plan and ensure they are aware of and vote for the plan
• Use, where possible established or existing networks to help deliver imaginative consultation processes in an area that has suffered consultation overload
• Work closely with the Bankside Neighbourhood Forum, both individuals and organisations, to ensure that consultation is managed and delivered effectively
• Provide regular updates and reports to line manager, neighbourhood plan chair and board
• Manage any allocated budget, achieve value for money and process invoices and payments following normal financial rules
• When required work with the local authority
• Work closely with key stakeholders, particularly Better Bankside and Bankside Open Spaces Trust
• Build links with individuals, organisations and networks to achieve closer working over the life time of the neighbourhood plan
• Identify events to promote the neighbourhood plan, and work with the Bankside Neighbourhood Forum to ensure they are represented at these events
• Fully organise appropriate events to promote the neighbourhood plan
• Work with the Bankside Neighbourhood Forum to produce appropriate publicity materials, including updating the website
• Work to target stakeholders:
•Residents, including hard to reach
Identify at least 10 large events to attend to promote the plan
•Co-ordinate Bankside neighbourhood plan board members to attend other events, including TRAs, community meetings and other appropriate events
•Encourage feedback into the development of the plan
o Organisations and not for profit
• Including BOST, Religious groups, BRF, The Tate, St Saviours, SE1 united, Colombo Centre
o Arrange and attend drop in sessions to raise awareness of the plan, co-ordinate other members to attend as necessary

• Good knowledge of local community groups, networks and organisations active in the Bankside Neighbourhood Plan and adjacent areas.
• Excellent organisational skills
• Willingness to work evenings and weekends and be flexible
• Work on own initiative but motivate a team of volunteers
• Excellent communication skills, including producing appropriate publicity
• Political awareness

The Bankside Neighbourhood Forum is a partnership of local residents, businesses and community organisations, who are committed to developing a Neighbourhood Plan for Bankside under the auspices of the Localism Bill.

The Forum needs an experienced and creative organiser to help us gather the views of local people to inform a neighbourhood plan that reflects the aspirations, needs and beliefs of residents, organisations and businesses in Bankside, while reflecting some of the realities of the planning legislation and economic challenges of the area. We seek to receive a strong mandate in the referendum in 2014 and deliver a plan that can make a positive difference to the area for the five years it is in place.

The Government’s Localism Act now gives us all the chance to influence how our neighbourhood develops in future through a neighbourhood plan. It can help make sure that what we think is special now, stays special.
Since 2011, a group of residents, businesses and community organisations based in Bankside, SE1 have been working together to help inform the development of a Neighbourhood Plan for the area. The area covered is in the attached map.