Projects and Community Associate | Build Workspace | London

Term: 1-year fixed term contract

Hours: Full-time (though 4.5 days/week will be considered)

Salary: £24-26k

Closing date: 13th July 2023

The Projects and Community Associate will play a key support role in the smooth running and development of a small and dynamic charity and social enterprise.

Build Studios is a hub for the built environment. With events, education and co-working space, we aim to inspire the next generation about the built environment through collaboration and learning.

Our co-working space provides office space for start-ups and small businesses in the built environment sector and is run by our trading company, Build Workspace. All profits fund Build Studios’ charitable work, including a flagship careers enrichment programme with local schools.

We opened in January 2017 and became a registered charity in August 2021. We currently run one workspace in Waterloo and are planning to expand our operations to new sites.

We are a small, friendly and supportive team – committed to delivering a great product for our members and to supporting the aims of the charity

Role

This broad-ranging role presents a great opportunity to work with a growing and forward-thinking social enterprise. The Projects and Community Associate will play an active role in the day-to-day running of the Build Studios workspace and in assisting with the development of new projects and initiatives.

The role has two key parts:

1. - Duty assistant manager tasks, including operations, administration and member liaison (covering the maternity leave of our Assistant Workspace Manager) – approx. 2 days/week

2. - Project support, research, communications and marketing activity – approx. 3 days/week.

The post-holder will report to the Chief Executive and will collaborate closely with the (part-time) Workspace Manager. The role would be primarily office based, with some flexible or home-working considered. Thursdays and Friday mornings would need to be office based.

Attributes

The ideal candidate will be:

• Hospitable and friendly, confident in welcoming people to the workspace and

  providing excellent customer service to members and guests.

• Calm and consistent – able to apply the rules of the workspace and offer solutions to members and guests

• Passionate about the built environment and architectural education in all its forms

• Willing to get stuck in – we are a small team and everyone rolls their sleeves up

• Extremely organised and accurate, with a focus on forward planning, careful

  research and excellent attention to detail.

• An excellent communicator and writer, with fluent English

• Willing to innovate and try new ways of working

• Highly numerate

• IT literate and familiar with MS Office and common office software applications

• A self-starter; able to work both under your own initiative as the sole member of staff onsite on some days and as part of a small team when collaborating in person with colleagues.

• Ability to absorb and understand new systems quickly and to implement them accurately.

Terms

Term 1-year fixed term contract.

Location The role is primarily based on-site at Build Studios’ premises on Westminster Bridge Road in Waterloo.

Some home working will be considered.

Salary £24-26k per annum (pro rata if a 4.5 day week is agreed)

Hours 8.30-4.30 pm with unpaid 30 minutes for lunch.

Some flexibility to these hours will be considered. However, please note that Thursdays and Friday mornings will need to be worked on-site.

Employer

The contract of employment would be with Build Workspace. Build Workspace is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Build Studios and manages the workspace on its behalf.

To Apply

Please send a CV and cover letter to Helen Santer, Chief Executive by Friday 13th July at helen@buildstudios.co.uk Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.