Senior Community Organiser

About the role:

As part of our mission to break down barriers to university access and address broader educational inequalities, the Social Mobility & Widening Participation department has developed a dedicated strand of community organising within our work, which is becoming increasingly impactful across King’s and recognised in the sector. Through our Access & Participation Plan 2025–2029, we have made ambitious commitments to expand of this work to improve young people’s educational outcomes and address challenges to university access and broader inequalities.

We work to address local barriers to education such as mental health, pathways to citizenship, access to English language provision and issues around employment and fair wages. We do this through our partnership with South London Citizens. This role leads on the development and delivery of community organising initiatives and supports the wider integration of these methods across King’s. Through community organising, the role empowers school leaders, young people and parents to design, launch and sustain impactful campaigns. The post holder will work closely with Citizens UK organisers and colleagues across King’s to build strong partnerships and drive meaningful change, including engagement in broader, high profile local, regional and national initiatives.

The postholder will use community organising methodology to lead and expand our core community organising programmes which are currently, Parent Power South London, Empoderando Familias (in partnership with Citizens UK) and Empower ESOL- https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/social-mobility/who-we-work-with/our-partners#section-3 . A key focus will be driving the strategic growth of our flagship Parent Power programme into new regions in collaboration with The Brilliant Club, where we have a commitment to support the launch of a new chapter each year through to 2028/29. This initiative empowers parents and carers to engage actively in their children’s education while building strong networks of community organisers who drive meaningful change at both local and national levels. The postholder will act as the main liaison with Citizens UK, The Brilliant Club and work closely with internal key stakeholders to support wider community organising initiatives and deliver training for SMWP staff.  

This is a full-time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

Essential criteria

• Relevant work experience and/or education: We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. Relevant work experience might include work in schools, or charities. Relevant educational experiences might include higher education in a related discipline, professional qualifications or other training.
• Experience of or demonstrable interest in broad-based community organising.
• Experience of building relationships with people from a wide range of backgrounds, working in different areas and with different priorities.
• Evidence of having acted in a leadership role with peers or in local community activities (e.g. organising clubs or societies).
• Ability to communicate complex and specialist information orally and in writing in a compelling way.
• Ability to inspire, build relationships and bring people from a range of backgrounds together to deliver short-term projects and to build power.
• Ability to plan significant projects or areas of work delivered to a high standard.
• Understanding of the widening participation agenda and/or the role of higher education in social mobility.

Desirable criteria

• Direct experience of broad-based approaches to community organising.

Interviews are provisionally scheduled for the week commencing 15th September.

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