The Big Flame: Inspiring Community Organising Then and Now
Applications open for new fixed-term roles at the Working Class Movement Library
We have recently received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant for our Big Flame inspired youth engagement project. The grant provides us with the opportunity to deliver a project focused on engaging young individuals and local working-class activists in exploring, researching and enhancing accessibility to our Big Flame archive. Together, participants will explore what Big Flame was and what it can tell us about organising today. The project will include the creation of a temporary exhibition co-curated with the young participants.
Big Flame was a revolutionary socialist group active in the 1970s and 1980s with a feminist, anti-racist, internationalist vision. The Working Class Movement Library is home to a Big Flame archive and holds copies of their newspaper, Big Flame and journal, Revolutionary Socialism. The Working Class Movement Library is recruiting a part-time Project Coordinator and a part-time Project Researcher to help us to deliver this project on a fixed term basis. These roles will be based at the library but can be worked flexibly to respond to the needs of the applicant, the participants, and the project and remote working will be supported.
You can download the application pack and job description for each role here:
Big Flame Project Application Pack
Big Flame Project Coordinator Job Description
Big Flame Project Researcher Job Description
Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form
Applications close on: Friday 5th April at 12 noon.
The interviews are likely to take place during the week beginning 22nd April.
We are committed to a fair application process and we are interested in receiving applications from people currently under-represented in our team and in the heritage sector. We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process, and you will be asked whether you require any during the application process. We also offer reasonable adjustments on the job. These roles will require a full DBS disclosure.
If you would like to speak to someone about the role, please contact: enquiries@wcml.org.uk
Applications should include a cover letter outlining how your skills and experience fit the essential and desirable criteria in the job descriptions (max.2 sides of A4) and a brief CV to enquiries@wcml.org.uk