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Community Development Coordinator

  • Full time
  • £29,000
  • Glasgow - GDA staff now working between office at Templeton Business Centre and home with increasing days in office planned when practical.
  • Closing 20th September 2022


  • Advertised from 16th August 2022
  • 35 hours per week Monday – Friday (occasional evening/weekend work may be required for which time off in lieu i.e. TOIL will be granted)

Role

We are recruiting a Community Development Coordinator to work alongside and at the direction of our Policy & Participation Manager. The Coordinator will enable active participation in dialogue and deliberation opportunities to establish priorities and influence policy, service design and decisions which affect disabled people.

The role involves coordinating and delivering fully accessible capacity building programmes that support disabled people to build their voice as individuals and as a community of identity.

The successful candidate will have a track record of engaging people who experience inequality and disadvantage and supporting them to build voices and participate in activities to promote equality, rights and co-design better policies and services.

Essentials for the role:

  • Track record using community development approaches to support marginalised people, preferably in an equalities context.
  • Awareness and understanding of the structural inequalities faced by disabled people and a passion for tackling them.
  • Ability to connect lived experience to public policy areas and to support disabled people to influence policies, strategies and political priorities.
  • Ability to network and build relationships with key partner organisations to help them better understand and meet the needs of disabled people.
  • Excellent communication skills, ability to listen and respond sensitively to others, with respect, kindness and empathy, upholding confidentiality and safeguarding as appropriate.
  • Ability to organise, to identify and remove barriers to enable participation of diverse individuals.
  • Commitment to the values of equality, inclusion and empowering those facing inequalities to take a leading role in tackling them.

GDA positively welcomes applications from those with protected characteristics. Applications warmly welcomed from disabled candidates. Prospective applicants with lived experience of ableism, or who require additional support or reasonable adjustments, may contact our Office Manager to discuss how we can remove any barriers you may face within our application process.

Application notes

Closing date: 5pm on Tuesday 20th September 2022.

We may bring the vacancy closing date forward depending on the response rate to this advert.

Please send the completed application form, together with the Equality Monitoring Form and Rehabilitation of Offenders Form (if required by the job) by email to: LynnMcEwan@gdaonline.co.uk Please use the subject heading: “Private and Confidential: Ref CDC/ 0922”

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