We are currently looking for a collaborative, proactive and socially engaged person to help us manage our projects and our co-op.
Common Knowledge is a not-for-profit worker cooperative of technologists, designers, researchers and facilitators. We work in collaboration with grassroots organisers and communities to help them build power and achieve radical change. We use digital technologies to multiply the impact and capacity of social movements.
Our work falls into three core activities: we design and build digital software, provide training and strategic advice, and facilitate the sharing of knowledge and resources amongst different groups. Some of our collaborators include Green New Deal Rising, 350.org, Progressive International, The World Transformed, Left Book Club, Cooperation Town, Nurses United, United Voices of the World, StopWatch and London Renters Union.
Established in 2018, we have a core team of four members and one software development apprentice. As a worker cooperative, we govern the cooperative together in a democratic, non-hierarchical and collaborative way. We support each other and contribute our own particular skills and experience for our mutual benefit and for the cooperative as a whole. Our ideal candidate will also aspire to become a member of the cooperative.
Read more about us on our website: **https://commonknowledge.coop/**
You’ll use agile methodologies to manage a range of internal and external projects, coordinating with our clients as well as the rest of the team. Your goal will be to ensure that each project stays healthy, on time and within budget, and that everyone involved is happy.
In terms of the day-to-day agile practice, we use a pretty standard version of scrum to guide our activities, working in eight day cycles, beginning with planning and ending with a retrospective. We schedule ad hoc meetings to plan longer blocks of time.
In terms of tools, we use GitHub to track tasks and stories, Notion for internal documentation, Twist for async discussion of projects and Productive for time tracking and keeping things on budget. While we use these tools, we like to think of project management as a practice first, that the tools assist.
We also use design thinking methodologies, rapid prototyping and other product design techniques to understand things and build out a backlog. We also bring a critical angle to these practices from a design justice perspective. We welcome you bringing your own perspectives to these practices and tools and are flexible as long as things get done.
This work will often involve juggling many projects at once, so this role would best suit someone who has experience working across multiple projects in an agency environment. You’ll need to be able to take initiative and navigate unfamiliar territory, adapting to new developments as they emerge.
We’re looking for someone who is a good communicator and enjoys collaborating with others. Everyone in our team contributes to the running of the co-op. We rotate responsibilities like financial administration, opportunity development, governance and public communications between us. In this role, you would be helping us steward one or more of these areas.
All of our projects are rooted in social and ecological justice, so we’re looking for someone who cares deeply about these issues and wants to help us achieve radical change.
We’re open to people with a whole range of experience and can adapt the role to suit your strengths and interests. What we care about most is finding someone who is a good fit and eager to learn. People of colour, women, neurodiverse, queer, non-binary and trans folks strongly encouraged to apply.