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.
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:
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
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Good organisational, planning and communication skills
Willingness to learn new digital tools/platforms
