External Coordinator | UK Assemblies

Group:UK Assemblies
Posted:10/04/2025
Location:From home role with XR UK (UK Wide)
Hours per week:2-4
No. spaces available:1
Meeting Time:Tues 09:30-11:00 UK Assemblies | Mon 14:30-16:30 & Fri 12:30-13:30 Operations
Meeting Format:Conference call
Meeting Schedule:Attend the UK Assemblies group meeting and the wider circle Ops meetings where possible.
Essential Skills:Proactive, organised and a good communicator
Desired Skills:An understanding of the importance of local democracy and assemblies processes.
Accessibility considerations:If you're hard of hearing (closed captions can be used during meetings) or visually impaired, then the online meeting aspect may be a barrier. You would need to be able to use a computer/keyboard.

The UK Assemblies team is a growing and well-functioning happy team of people who are passionate about promoting assemblies to show how things can be done differently in politics!

Within Extinction Rebellion’s Self-organising System, UK Assemblies is a UK working group which sits in Operations.

UK Assemblies purpose is to:

  • XRUK has the knowledge and support it requires to promote the Third Demand.
  • XRUK, Local Groups, Regions and Nations have a broad understanding of the power of deliberative democracy, and have the support they need to run community assemblies as required.

    • The External Coordinator's role includes:

    • The team is represented in the broader circle, and aware of that circle’s work and priorities
    • Representing the mandate of the team within meetings of the broader circle, and asking another member of the team to attend when they’re not available
    • Communicating the plan and work of the broader circle to the team
    • Reporting on the health of this team to the broader circle
    • Taking issues that can’t be resolved in the team to the broader circle
    • Exchanging information with other teams (not their own sub-circles) where this is not already being done by link roles

    For more information on the External Coordinator mandate, please select the link below:
    External Coordinator mandate

    For more information on the mandates for UK Assemblies and our parent circle, Operations, please select the links below:

    UK Assemblies mandate

    Operations mandate

    There are three different types of assemblies - to understand the difference between Citizens’, Community and People’s assemblies, please read this explainer on the Rebel Toolkit

This role is being advertised by the following working group:

UK Assemblies

Location: XR UK (UK Wide)

We support XRUK in holding Assemblies and achieving wider inclusion in decision-making. We provide support to Local Groups, Regions and Nations to enable them to run community assemblies as part of community-based actions. Support may include funding, training, best practice guides, tools, collaboration spaces, comms support, facilitation. We support XRUK to organise large-scale [centrally] run community assemblies, as necessary.

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