Short Description
Metroland Cultures is seeking a Justice & Change Project Coordinator to help deliver a new project exploring how the law impacts and shapes people’s lives.
Justice & Change is a new project by Metroland Cultures that will explore how the law impacts and shapes our lives. The project takes its starting point from the Brent Community Law Centre (BCLC), one of the first community law centres to be set up in the U.K in 1971. BCLC developed a unique approach to community law that focused on collective action rather than individual cases, alongside creating The Brent Young People’s Law Project that specifically worked with young people and the legal struggles they were facing in four areas – care, employment, education and criminal justice.
What can looking at the existing archives of a law centre tell us about life in Brent during the 1970s, and what can it teach us about how the law impacts and shapes our lives today? How can it support us to imagine and practice justice as community care? How can listening to past community responses to harm offer us lessons in healing, repair and prevention for now, and in the future? How can exploring these histories creatively support people to respond to the issues that are most impacting them today?
- Hours: 22.5 hours per week or 3 days per week
- Salary: £32,000 pro rata
- Contract Type: Fixed term – 2 years starting Nov 2025
Overview of the role
The Project Coordinator is responsible for the smooth and efficient delivery of the Heritage Lottery Funded project Justice & Change and related community partnerships critical to its delivery.
This role involves working as part of a team comprising core MC staff and freelancers, artists, facilitators, project teams, a design team, and liaising with key partners and stakeholders as required.
The post holder will be required to contribute to the project planning, delivery, community partnerships and communications. We are looking for someone with heritage and community experience who can demonstrate they have effectively delivered projects or programmes to achieve and report on contracted outputs and outcomes. You should be interested in working in community and creative settings.
Full details of the role can be found in the recruitment pack below.
Role And Responsibilities
● Working with Metroland Cultures Programmes Curator to coordinate each strand of the project, including delivery of all outcomes within the project plan – including holding budgets, producing risk assessments and following safeguarding policies and practice.
● Support with archival research, digital communications, and the planning and delivery of workshops and events as required.
● Work with MC Programmes Curator to plan and deliver a public programme.
● Work with the Freelance Evaluator to support the ongoing evaluation process and framework.
● Manage the community collaborators plan and expenses budgets and host all collaborators on site, across all activities, taking account of all health, safety, training and safeguarding requirements.
● Develop and maintain relationships including community partners and On the Record.
● Support and be present at workshops with the community groups and collaborators on the project, including oral history training led by On the Record.
● Work with MC Programmes Curator and community partners to develop 3 printed resources.
● Work with On the Record and BCLC Founders to build a digital archive site
● Other duties as required to effectively and efficiently deliver the project:
- Representing Metroland Cultures as appropriate
- Follow Metroland Cultures policies and procedures
- This role may be required to work evenings and weekends as appropriate and
reasonable, with time off in lieu provided for additional hours work.
How to Apply
Please send your applications along with the equal opportunities form to team@metrolandcultures by Friday, 10th October 2025 12 midnight.
To apply, please submit an A4 PDF including:
– One side cover letter and one side CV (2 A4 pages) Please include your name in the file name
– A completed Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form which can be downloaded here (The information provided will be handled in the strictest confidence and will only be used for statistical monitoring purposes.)
Alternatively, you may submit a short video covering the same information :
– Format: MP4, max 5 minutes
– Orientation: filmed horizontally on a phone (does not need to be professionally filmed)
Entry Fee
None
Location
London, United Kingdom
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 10 October 2025
Website Link: https://metrolandcultures.com/opportunities/join-our-team/
