3 X Project Co-Ordinator (P/T) Posts

The ‘Community Engagement Project’ responds to new and emerging tensions across Belfast alongside new and problematic challenges as a result of internal and external dynamics affecting progress and stability. The project will deliver a number of positive outcomes and outputs, most notably and practically: A reduction in violent or other related incidents at interfaces during the lifetime of the project that are a result of, as well as contribute to, tensions between communities.

• Increased capacity for stakeholders to work together across the city to practically monitor and respond to tensions and violence at interfaces
• Increased capacity for activists at a local level to recognise early signs of emerging or increasing tensions and to initiate responses to them
• Increased capacity for communities and activists to work together to develop responses to emerging issues such as ‘community permeability’ and its impacts
• Increased ownership at both a local and strategic level by communities and organisations of the issues and a willingness to work together to tackle the broad range of contributing factors
• Increased understanding of the importance of providing broader support to those vulnerable at interfaces including how to refer young people and adults to other organisations and agencies
• The development of an early warning system across Belfast to ensure that emerging tensions at interfaces can be quickly identified

The three posts are:

Project Co-Ordinator – 17.5 hours per week equating to £11,730 per annum.

For more details on how to apply, please contact Intercomm Ireland’s Gordie Walker by e-mail ([email protected]). 

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 20th January 2021

Late submissions will not be accepted.

The programme is supported by Porticus.

NB: With Coranavirus restrictions, interviews will be conducted online, most likely via Zoom, however, if you do not have access to a computer, tablet or mobile device and internet services, we will facilitate these arrangements in a community setting, as appropriate, to any successful applicants.