External Coordinator | UK Assemblies

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

Posted

10/04/2025

Location

From home role with XR UK (UK Wide)

Hours per week

2-4

Positions 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.

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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