Call for Expressions of Interest: Inclusion Research Producer
Promising Trouble is looking for a freelance Inclusion Research Producer to support us with designing and implementing inclusive practices in our Community Tech programme.
Deadline for expressions of interest: Tuesday 7 March, 09:00 GMT
Budget and timing
We would like this work to be carried out between April - July. The maximum budget is £14,400 (including VAT if applicable).
We are looking for someone to work 2 days per week at £400 per day.
About Community Tech
Our work on Community Tech started with a small research project in 2021. It has now grown into a programme of significant funding, multi-stranded research, and an emerging community of practice. Community Tech is technology built with, by and for communities, that is locally accountable and creates local value. You can find out much more on our Community Tech website: https://www.communitytech.network/
What we need
The Inclusion Research Producer will design and begin to deliver an inclusion strategy for the Community Tech programme.
The work:
Research the current landscape of businesses and individuals within the field and identify which communities we are not currently engaging.
Propose a strategy to engage these communities and advise on any barriers to participation in the programme as it stands.
Identify individuals and businesses we should be engaging with and build relationships with them.
Play a key role in the development and launch of our community of practice in May.
Advise on the design of Power to Change’s next round of Community Tech funding and support the dissemination of the call to a diverse network of businesses.
Advise on potential strategic partners and co-travellers.
Capture the learning in a blog post, or series of blog posts.
About you
We’re looking for expressions of interest from individuals or small teams with expertise in Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and knowledge of how to build inclusive practices at the start of a long term programme and community of practice. You will need to:
Apply good practice in community engagement and participation, and keep up to date with emerging practice and innovation in this space.
Advise us on how to address barriers to participation in our work, so that anyone who wants to get involved is able to do so.
Ideally you will also have an interest in Community Tech.
About Promising Trouble
Promising Trouble is a social enterprise whose work puts community power at the heart of technology and innovation. Our work centres equity and social justice, with a network of clients and associates distributed internationally. With our sister organisation, Careful Industries, our mission is to make sure more people have the chance to shape, inform and create new technologies.
We are a fully remote team that currently uses Slack and Zoom for day-to-day communication, and a range of digital tools including Asana, Miro, and Google Workspace.
Our Values
Care is the organising principle for everything we do: care for and about people and the planet, combined with a rigorous and diligent approach to investigating uncertainty.
We are constantly learning, always curious, and strive to be inclusive and accepting.
We champion careful innovation and feminism for the 99%.
We are wayfinders not competitors.
We ask good questions, seek useful answers, and listen closely
We are impatient for change, but careful in our actions
We use our power to state the unsaid and make space for others
We look after each other so we can make careful trouble together.
How to submit an expression of interest
Please send a short document (no more than 3 slides or A4 pages in total) to jobs@promisingtrouble.net with the following information:
Tell us about you – your previous experience of similar work, and why you’re interested in this opportunity (no more than 1 page).
An outline of how you would approach the work, detailing (in plain English) how you would go about identifying and engaging new organisations and individuals in Community Tech (no more than 2 pages).
Timeline
Deadline for expressions of interest: Tuesday 7 March, 09:00 GMT
We will respond by Friday 10 March and interviews for shortlisted candidates will take place on Tuesday 14 March.
Get in touch
If you have any questions please contact us on jobs@promisingtrouble.net.