| 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: | UK Assemblies meet on Mons 20:00-21:30 and Tues 9:30-11:00 |
| Meeting Format: | Conference call |
| Meeting Schedule: | You can facilitate both or either of the meetings |
| Essential Skills: | Experience in XRUK Meeting facilitation or you have completed the XRUK Meeting Facilitator training |
| Desired Skills: | Able to use Zoom and use multiple windows to view minutes and Zoom attendees. |
| Accessibility considerations: | Access to a computer required. You would need to be able to use a computer/keyboard and participate in Zoom meetings. Closed captions can be used during meetings. |
The UK Assemblies is a well-functioning happy team of people who are passionate about promoting assemblies to show how things can be done differently in politics, by actively deliberating issues of local concern.
Within Extinction Rebellion’s Self-organising System, the UK Assemblies team sits in Operations which sits in the UK Rebel Hive
The UK Assemblies purpose is that:
The key role of the Meeting Facilitator is to ensure the smooth running of the weekly team meetings so that:
1) They stay on track with the agenda
2) Decision-making processes are appropriately structured.
For more information on the UK Assemblies team, the Facilitator role and XR’s Integrative Decision Making [IDM] processes, please select the links below:
UK Assemblies mandate
Facilitator mandate NB click on the plus sign next to Facilitator.
Decision Making Processes explainer on the Rebel Toolkit
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:
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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