Transition Homes CLT is hiring!
Transition Homes Community Land Trust is developing low cost, low carbon housing with integrated food production and renewable energy. We have secured planning consent and in principle funding and have appointed builders and a Project Manager to oversee the construction contract which starts soon after Christmas.We now wish to appoint a part-time project co-ordinator (20 hours a week worked flexibly), initially for 12 months, to cover the busy period of the scheme development including communications, financial oversight, the sale and letting of properties, progressing the fundraising for the community building, evaluation, relationships with stakeholders including funders and the local community, supporting the trustees and volunteers and day to day administration of the CLT. The post will cease to be required once the scheme is complete and all the units are occupied.
This is an exciting role on a cutting-edge project, so applicants need to be enthusiastic about the ethos of the scheme, efficient and able to take the initiative, prioritise a busy workload and able to deal with a wide variety of tasks without regular day to day supervision
The co-ordinator can either be based at the Transition Town Totnes’ offices in Totnes or home based (and able to physically attend Totnes meetings, including at the Clay Park site on a regular basis). The salary will be £25,000 pro-rata (i.e. £13.333 for 20 hours a week for 12 months).
For a Job Description, Person Specification and details how to apply please go here: LINK
Closing: Wednesday 14th September, 5pm
Transition Town Totnes (TTT) is a community-led charity (no. 1138865) working to create a regenerative and healthy community within our local area. We do this by catalysing, supporting, and collaborating with a diverse portfolio of grass-roots projects, enterprises, partnerships, and individuals embedded in the town of Totnes, South Devon.
With our Coordination, these projects form a movement that innovates models of community leadership and systems thinking across different sectors (with different goals), whilst simultaneously working towards a common vision – ‘To build a caring, connected, collaborative community that is environmentally, economically and socially resilient in a changing world’.
We manage, deliver, and collaborate with several projects and partnerships based around our key themes:
- Food
- Local economy
- Health and wellbeing
- Housing, building and energy
- Inner transition
- Art and Creativity
- Waste & resources
- Transport
Building on 16 years of experience in supporting and developing sustainable initiatives in the community, and inspiring a worldwide movement, TTT is going through an exciting new phase with further funding, new projects, community leaders, and new team members and volunteers.