Work with Base! - Events Leader
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Base Commons is seeking an Events Leader for a part-time, Melbourne-based role starting in June, ideal for those passionate about community engagement and project management. The organization focuses on creating curated community experiences and co-living spaces that promote personal growth, connection, and social innovation. Applications are due by April 27, 2017, and prospective candidates are encouraged to submit creative applications that reflect their fit for the role.
Work with Base! - Events Leader
- 1. E V E N T S L E A D E R Come and work with the amazing team at Base Commons
- 2. LOOK UP, KEEP CLIMBING We have grown a lot in the last 6 months and we’re at an exciting nexus. Now we’re on the lookout for an Events Leader. This part-time, flexible, Melbourne-based role will begin in June. It would be super ideal for someone who enjoys crafting inspiring experiences, connecting with inspiring people and gets a buzz from managing projects. Maybe this is you, or maybe it’s someone you know. Keep reading to hear more about what it’s like to work with us, what this position entails, and how to apply. Oh and applications are due before April 27th 2017 - but scroll through for the details.
- 3. WE DELIGHT IN CRAFTING COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES
- 4. It’s exciting that you’re reading this and considering working with us. This little presentation or deck (if you’d like to call it that), is here to give you some insight into the ‘why, who, how and what’ we do so you can feel if it’s a fit. Hopefully you’ll come to the end and know for yourself whether it definitely is, or maybe not. If you don’t feel the fit, then that’s great we probably saved both of us some time. If you do feel the fit, then we can’t wait to see what emerges. We’ve broken this into 3 parts for you: 1 Base and our manifesto 2 Your role 3 Finer details HI THERE!
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- 7. Modern life is becoming an increasingly complex landscape - interwoven by work, life and play. With the World Health Organisation predicting that over 70% of the human population will be living in urban environments by 2050 and that depression will be the leading cause of morbidity by 2030, we need a new way way of organising ourselves. We are a community of people ourselves, who look outside and notice an inter-generational yearning for re-connection. Re-connecting with each other, a sense of home, a sense of purpose and a sense of self. WHY WE’RE IN BUSINESS Co·liv·ing / noun Shared housing designed to support a purpose-driven life. A modern, urban lifestyle that values openness, sharing, and collaboration. Synonyms: intentional living, intentional community, cohousing, modern nomad.
- 8. PERSONAL GROWTH We recognise that as much as we need cultural change and systems-change, we also need to grow in certain ways as individuals. Growing as an individual and becoming more self-aware is something almost naturally occurring when we exist in community. CONNECTION As a community, we like to make sure that in everything we do, we are consciously and intentionally creating space for connection, sharing and collaboration. Turning the attention to the community as much as possible. CREATIVE EXPRESSION Creating space for our community to express themselves creatively is very important. Whether it be music, art, business or any other form; this is where our community grows and innovation takes place! SOCIAL INNOVATION As a purpose-driven organisation, we are very conscious of the tangible impact we are creating both in our work and in the ideas that ¯emerge from our spaces. Always aiming to have an impact beyond our doors and our community. OUR CORE PILLARS WHAT WE DO We see it as our mission to facilitate curated community experiences and regenerative co-living spaces. Spaces that cultivate personal growth, connection, creative expression and social innovation. Places and spaces that foster a more joyful and sustainable existence.
- 9. HOW WE DO IT We see it as our mission to facilitate curated community experiences and regenerative co-living spaces. Spaces that cultivate personal growth, connection, creative expression and social innovation. Places and spaces that foster a more joyful and sustainable existence. CURATED EXPERIENCES LIVEABLE SPACES ETHICAL INVESTMENTS
- 10. Our community is intentionally diverse and is aligned with our 4 guiding pillars. We aim for our events and spaces to be a nexus of the wellbeing, sustainability and startup/innovation communities. You’ll work with people who are 25 years old and those who are 58 years old. Everyone you work with will be driven by the possibility of a sustainable future and will be very open to participating. WHO WE WORK WITH
- 11. DANIELLE SAMPSON AL JEFFERY JAMES BICKFORD OWEN SYMINGTON Catalyst and Facilitator of People and Culture Director, Partnerships and Experiences Director, Places and Architecture Director, Finance and Investment Al is our founder and has been in business since he was a teeny tiny 12 year old. He loves connecting with people in funny ways, pushing us all to grow a little more and always keeps us aligned with our vision. He works to facilitate the community’s growth, the culture of the community (and our team) and also does a lot of our forward-facing media and thought leadership. Oh and he loves yoga, music and Messina ice-cream! Dani is great at building and managing partnerships, making lists and generally getting stuff done! She overviews all of our projects, is the glue between them all and makes sure that we are on track and all partners and stakeholders are satisfied. She also loves connecting with others in a meaningful way and making sure that our community and their experience is number one priority. She loves hiking, writing, jazz gigs and drinking red wine in her spare time! James knows a thing or two about designing spaces having spent much of his studies including his thesis contemplating how we can live better closer together in our cities. Working in one of Melbourne’s leading sustainable architecture firms he brings this breadth and depth of knowledge to the team and will help synthesise the design led research we undertake with our community. When he isn’t architecting he enjoys shooting hoops with friends. Now Owen was the missing piece to the puzzle for a while. Having worked in the United States on a series of high growth companies including Common Living (you may have heard of that co-living company in the US?), he moved back to Australia and came straight to working with us. He knows the numbers inside and out, it’s his jam. A little hint, don’t ever say that numbers are boring to him! Al did that accidentally and learned how much Owen loves them. That’s his thing!
- 12. As a team we will definitely be supporting you along the way, but there are a few things we’d love you to ‘own’ and be the go-to person for. 1. Managing relationships and organising with event stakeholders (ie. speakers, facilitators, partners and sponsors) 2. Designing the event experience with our research team and presenters 3. Setting up events and making sure they run smoothly (being the glue!) 4. Keeping track of event reporting metrics to report to sponsors and partner Things we’ll need you to be across: Managing a project Events are fun to organise and produce, but it is an art form. There are many levers to pull and making sure everything lines up toward that one event date is very important. We don’t use a project management software for this yet, but we’d like you to take control of this and if you need one, go for it. Online communications We use Slack to manage our team communications, as we really only get to work in-person 1 day a week. When we get into the space, this will be quite different though! You will need to be able to familiarise yourself with this software so we can work fluidly together. Be responsible and responsive As we manage our communications very much over Slack and the mobile phone, we need to make sure that we are responsive and able to reply back in a timely manner. We do want everyone to have balance and look after your own sanity, but when it comes to meeting our targets, we need to be on it! YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- 13. We operate modelling of a ‘holocratic’ governance model. This is a new approach to governance that takes away vertical hierarchy and brings in project teams; fostering purpose, mastery and autonomy. We have project circles, a lead in each project circle and then possibly a small team also. Each project circle is responsible for very specific goals and objectives and they have creative autonomy to achieve these. As long as all decisions are made in alignment with our values and philosophy, and our targets are met, you can go for it. If you work best from 2-5am in the mornings, great! As long as our communication is f luid and we meet targets, we are all happy. REMUNERATION: This will be a volunteer position in exchange for being able to work from our space, run events from our space, come to all events for free (obviously!) and of course in exchange for experience working with one of the most fun and awesome-est teams ever! HOW WE SEE THIS WORKING WE WANT THIS EXPERIENCE TO BE FUN, FLEXIBLE AND MEANINGFUL FOR YOU. SO WHILST WE HAVE SOME HARD TARGETS AS WE DESIGN THE FUTURE, WE MAY AS WELL HAVE FUN IN THE PRESENT!
- 14. Launching our experimental lab for future- living. We are launching our first physical space in July to become Australia’s first experimental lab for future-living. This space will be a living prototype to test what the future of sustainable living might be like. We have plenty of media waiting and watching and a community ready to provide for! We’ve been running our Weave event series since March (you may have come to an event) and have learned a lot! We’ll be launching our programming again with refined topics, event-types and from our own space! This is something you are going to be a big part of! We’d love to let you take some creative autonomy to see how out-there and creative we can get with the types of events we produce. Playing with some ideas for future public initiatives As an organisation with a goal to activate community, facilitate community culture and empower Melbourne for sustainable living, we are playing with the playful idea of some public installations and guerrilla marketing initiatives. We’d love to hear your input on some of them. for yourself within Base Commons: Part of an inspired and diverse community A HINT TO THE FUTURE... RELAUNCHING WEAVE
- 15. To apply to be our Events Lead, we’d love to get to know you in the same way you hopefully now know us. We really are seeking someone with not only great grades and experience, but first and foremost someone who is aligned with our philosophy and inspired by the vision. So instead of sending us a boring CV or Resume and Cover letter we’d ask that you do the following. START THE JOURNEY 1. Send us a quick letter, video or voice recording of the favourite event you’ve run, why it was so great, what was challenging about it and what you’d do next time. Feel free to go into as much detail as you can, but obviously please make it a little succinct 2. Fill us in on WHO you are and WHY you’d love to be part of Base’s vision in this role. Send us a video, poem, letter or anything you’d like that shares a little about yourself with us and why you’re inspired to be a part. Once we get your application, Al will be in touch to set a time for a call so you can get a feel for each other, and then if it feels right, maybe you’ll met up in person for another conversation (let’s not call these ‘interviews!’). Please send your application material (with any links to media or content) in one email to Al at al@basecommons.com. He will be in touch once he gets your application and to guide you through the process.