Job Vacancy: Be Resourceful Canvassing Assistant
Location: Birmingham
Salary £8:33/hour.
Up to 35 hours per week and varied between 09:00 and 19:00 to suit operational requirements with occasional weekend working
This is a casual contract between now and 31st October 2008
Be Resourceful is a new project aimed at encouraging waste minimisation. CSV Environment, working in partnership with Brumcan, has been engaged by Birmingham City Council to run a community-level campaign to support and encourage the use of their multi-material recycling collection service.
CSV was established in 1962 to involve people in community service and to promote voluntary and community action through eight main programmes nationwide: CSV Volunteering Partners, CSV Training and Enterprise, CSV Education for Citizenship, CSV’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme (RSVP), CSV Employee Volunteering, CSV Environment, CSV Consulting and Corporate Affairs. CSV Environment has worked in Birmingham for nearly twenty years and has successfully involved local communities in improving areas where they live and work and making more people aware of the need to live more sustainably
The Canvassing Assistants by engaging with the local community through direct contact will help to overcome barriers preventing participation and generally encourage residents to participate in the services offered.
We are looking for enthusiastic, articulate and confident individuals, with a good basic “A” level education who are flexible (in terms of working hours and tasks), able to work unsupervised outside in all weather conditions and with a broad understanding and interest in waste management and recycling.
For more details and an application pack please contact Julian Stanton on 0121 449 1991 or 07801893962.