Internal Coordinator | UK Assemblies

Group:UK Assemblies
Posted:22/04/2025
Location:From home role with XR UK (UK Wide)
Hours per week:2-4
No. spaces available:2
Meeting Time:Tues 9:30-11:00
Meeting Format:Conference call
Meeting Schedule:Attend the Tuesday meetings whenever possible. Other hours flexible
Essential Skills:Good team builder
Good organisational, planning and communication skills
Willingness to learn new digital tools/platforms
Desired Skills:An understanding of assemblies, deliberative democracy and familiarity with XR platforms.
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 role can be shared between two people, reducing the time commitment necessary.

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 an XRUK working group and is a sub group of Operations which sits in the UK Rebel Hive

UK Assemblies purpose is that:

  • 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.

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

The Purpose and Accountabilities are:

  • The team is healthy and achieving its mandate
  • Stewarding the team’s immediate and longer-term priorities, and aligning its work with the broader circle’s plan
  • Proposing roles and projects the team needs to fulfil its purpose and accountabilities
  • Supporting the work of role-holders and sub-circles, and reviewing their work at regular intervals
  • Filling team roles without extended delay, or proposing they are dissolved if no longer needed
  • Inviting people with relevant skills and abilities to join the team as required
  • Maintaining an awareness of the policies of the team and its broader circles
  • Maintaining an awareness of what is happening in the wider organism, and communicating regularly with the team's External Coordinator
  • Holding the Group Admin role whenever no one else has been appointed

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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