Justice & Change Project Coordinator

The Project Coordinator (3 days a week role) is responsible for the smooth and efficient delivery of the Heritage Lottery Funded project Justice & Change and related community 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.

Overview Of Justice & Change

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?