20th July 2008

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Recruitment

Director

£38k pro rata, 28 hours per week, Central London

Our current director, Wendy Davis, plans to retire in the autumn after six years leading WDS. Wendy has led the organisation successfully through the changing funding climate, moving towards a social enterprise model and developing exciting new areas of research, training and consultancy.

We wish to ensure that we have expertise and experience in all the areas necessary to take the organisation forward into a sustainable and successful future. However we recognise that the combination of built environment, equalities and voluntary sector management expertise is unusual.

WDS needs knowledge, skills and experience in the following areas:-

• Organisational development, promotion and marketing
• Strategy development and implementation
• Income generation and financial management
• Project and staff management
• Built environment issues (architecture, planning, urban design)
• Voluntary sector issues
• Equalities issues

If you think that you could run WDS successfully please apply using the appliaction form available below. We would like your application to focus on your strengths and to identify the positive qualities you could bring to the post. If you think that you do not meet all the criteria in the person specification, then please tell us how you would deliver those activities if you were in charge; perhaps through job-sharing? outsourcing? partnerships? Let us have your ideas and thereby demonstrate your suitability for this post.

We realise that the job description is very demanding for a salary pitched at charity rates. However the personal rewards to be gained from steering this unique organisation to a sustainable future are great. We currently only have £38,000 in the budget to cover the director functions. However if you generate sufficient income the Management Committee would welcome the opportunity to increase the salary.

Please download application pack below or contact hcarty@wds.org.uk to request a pack by post or email.

Job Description & Person Specification (PDF 65kb)

Application Form (Word doc 138kb)

Monitoring Form (Word doc 37kb)

Organisational Information (Word doc 150kb)

Closing date for receipt of applications is 9.0am on Monday 21st July 2008. Applications should be returned by email to hcarty@wds.org.uk or by post to Women's Design Service, 52-54 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT.

Community Development Worker: to establish Women's Design Groups in 12 London boroughs

£30,015 pro rata, 17.5 hours per week, 3 year contract

We are seeking an experienced community development worker with excellent communication skills able to relate to and engage with a variety of different audiences. We want someone who can recruit a range of women to join a Women’s Design Group and who can organise appropriate training to build their knowledge and self-confidence about planning and the built environment. The person must also be able to liaise successfully with local authority officers to gain their commitment to working with the Women's Design Groups.

The objective of the project is to establish 12 Women’s Design Groups in London over a 3 year period. The project is funded by London Councils and the goal is to increase community engagement and participation in local and regional planning and policy development.

Please download application pack below or contact hcarty@wds.org.uk to request a pack by post or email.

Job Description (Word doc 135 kb)

Person Specification (PDF 15kb)

Application Form (Word doc 138kb)

Monitoring Form (Word doc 37kb)

Organisational Information (Word doc 150kb)

Closing date for receipt of applications is noon Friday 22nd August 2008. Applications should be returned by email to hcarty@wds.org.uk or by post to Women's Design Service, 52-54 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT.