More about the work of Community Centred Knowledge
Community Centred Knowledge (CCK) are looking for an adaptable and disciplined person to work closely with our Director to build our vision and practice and ensure the collective is thriving.
We have always been that organisation that thrives on individual and collective initiative taking and creativity that is shared to produce wonderful transformative moments.
We are now keen to make our work more organised in ways in which it can become more accessible to the public and able to be even more impactful in a consistent way. We need to work with someone with a cool, calm head for organising creativity; to help us to be in more productive flow and someone who is also able to have a key eye for opportunities whilst developing their practice and the collective.
Our core work has been what has been listed below to date. We need to organise these into viable and consistent streams of activity that interface with community and individuals in ways that are restorative, reparative and transformative.
Examples of our work include –
- The Food Journey and other immersive group workshops. This has been our main activity and has been the source of inspiration for much of our work. How can an administrative assistant help these workshops become more streamlined and able to be offered to communities and institutions in a more regular way?
- Presentations and Workshops on a range of topics related to Nourishment, Health, Institutional Well-being, Social Transformation and Trauma informed Care, and Food Justice. The list just keeps on growing as our collective grows, but core practice is in being community serving and innovative, paying sufficient attention to the cultural and somatic environments of participants.
- ‘Undercommons’ and Grassroots community engagement with the pan-London network Just Space and Just Collaborate. We are part of creating and facilitating discussion and praxis between communities and universities and between communities and museums.
- Community re-narrativisation and storytelling. We are working with projects based in London and beyond that support communities to tell their own stories about themselves, through art and creative practice.
- Systemic transformative justice training and awareness raising. We work with organisations and communities to leverage their own power to be more present in the world. This work grows out of earlier power and privilege training that we are transforming into more powerful approaches that work more closely with community of all kinds, including within institutions.
- Coloniality and Environmental Justice Creative campaigns. We offer support and encouragement to sibling organisations and individuals in the areas of what is termed ‘climate’ justice.
- Documentary production centring community narratives. We have been working with museums and other institutions to produce different kinds of documents: videos and stories to draw attention to the pluriversal and cosmologies of difference across the earth. We are learning all the time about the ways of the many worlds that make up life on earth: human and more than human.
We have been working with clients such as –
- Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, CAWR (Coventry), Edinburgh, Leeds, Oxford, Warwick and UCL and more.
- Bristol Museum, Natural History Museum, The Garden Museum
- Nyélèni Food Sovereignty gathering (Romania); Food Sovereignty Gathering (Hebden Bridge); Feed Avalon (Glastonbury); Brighton Food Network; Radical Herbalists Gathering; Transition Towns (Belgium),
- Lush plc, Kew Gardens
- Grassroots communities in London and in different localities across the UK
Our present work, during 2022, has been with Bristol (BMAG) and the Natural History Museum (UNP); The Racial Justice Network in Leeds, The Pepperpot Centre in Ladbroke Grove, University of Edinburgh and University of Leeds and we are developing relationships with The Westway Trust, North Kensington and we have been co-ordinating and facilitating the Kindred Dreaming Project. We have been part of a variety of presentations and workshops supporting social justice campaigns across the year and contributing to journals and publications. We’ve also been in conversations with many other organisations and donor bodies about shaping the approach to resourcing the kinds of work that we do in support of global majority organisations and communities.
Our team is small, but growing. We have only one full time member of the collective but other collective members are creatives who have been and are working both in the community and freelance and we hope to grow more community based membership as we secure our foundation going forward.
We have been blessed to have supporters from a variety of domains, assisting us to grow and thrive and we hope to maintain and deepen relations with them as we continue. We call them our ‘Guiding lights’ and we intend to develop this role as part of how we work.
Our newly employed Administration Assistant will be responsible for undertaking and developing administrative processes, systems and procedures that will support CCK to consistently deliver excellence and thrive.
We see this role as one that will grow and expand in relation to the effort put in and the ways in which we will support that effort.
To view the full role description and person specification please visit the job description.
To apply, please send your completed application form together with a covering letter detailing how you meet the person specification to Earth@communitycentredknowledge.org
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