Coordinateur/ice du tiers-lieu écocitoyen Toulonnais - L'Amarre

Description

Discover L'Amarre

L'Amarre is a community hub in the center of Toulon, founded in 2021 by two local entrepreneurs, Cédric Davoine (co-founder of Alchimistes Côte d'Azur), Thibaud Spieser (co-founder of Swello), and community hub expert Léa Massaré (founder of the Wide Open Project).

Made possible by the involvement of over 200 citizens, this unique place brings together citizens, associations, businesses, and institutions around a diverse and participative program.

From repair workshops, conferences, exhibitions, community cafe, seed library, tool library, women's circle, language gatherings, free training, thrift store... everything is done to promote the 4 values we have chosen:

• intergenerational conviviality
• knowledge sharing
• preservation of life
• citizen experimentation

In 2024, L'Amarre has moved to a new location, 7 Place d'Armes in Toulon, opening up new opportunities for activities and events, including outdoor events in Place d'Armes.

Regarding governance, we have chosen sociocracy, a model where power is shared among all members of the association (Board of Directors, volunteers, and employees): reflection, decision-making, and task allocation are done through thematic circles.

Key Information About the Position

As a coordinator, you will lead and evolve this community hub to make it vibrant, sustainable, and thriving on a territorial scale.

You will work closely with the office, members, potential interns, or civil service personnel.

Your main goal will be to define and embody a strategy for the community hub over the next 3 years to structure and grow L'Amarre in all its aspects: community, activities, partnerships, finances...

This position is a real opportunity and an exciting challenge to contribute to the creation of a significant community hub in the 8th Metropolitan area of France.

However, the association's resources are limited - it will be up to you to develop them! - and you will need to demonstrate a strong work capacity to support L'Amarre and thrive in this role.

Fortunately, at L'Amarre, you will find a job filled with meaning and social hope, with dedicated volunteer teams, genuinely friendly, and equipped with key competencies and resources.

Your Responsibilities

Strategy:

• Define the ambitions and the community hub's strategy for the next 3 years by setting objectives and laying out perspectives
• Manage and develop strategic partnerships with Toulon's associative, economic, and institutional fabrics
• Envision locations where L'Amarre can expand in the region
• You can rely on the Board of Directors and the general circle for these tasks, but you need to embody it by handling public relations with members, institutions, partners...

Coordination:

• Connect the various entities of the association: Board of Directors, team, members
• Organize and animate work circles, improve processes
• Define and prioritize tasks
• If necessary, recruit, welcome, and supervise interns

Finances:

• Establish the budget forecast and monitor the management
• Design the economic model and its evolutions
• Seek funding: grants, subsidies, sponsorship

Management:

• Monitor accounting
• Issue tax receipts
• For this mission, you can rely on the support of volunteers, especially from the administrative circle and the association's treasurer.

Programming, animation, and venue management

• Animate the L'Amarre community
• Organize and oversee the official programming of the community hub (sociocultural activities and focus on transition issues)
• Enhance volunteers' autonomy and involvement in venue management and programming "by everyone for everyone" (mediation, training)
• Contribute to and oversee internal communication (Trello, WhatsApp, email) and external communication (social networks, website, media)
• For these tasks, you can rely on the Venue Life circle, which brings together L'Amarre volunteers, and the Communication circle.

Your Skills

Skills

• Have a vision and understanding of participatory projects, SSE, and transition issues
• Be able to build and monitor financial tables
• Identify economic drivers and ensure the community hub's resource development
• Collaboratively build a program of activities and events around ecological and social transition
• Develop a community and facilitate interaction and connection internally and externally
• Manage internal and external communication with numerous stakeholders
• ...and know how to give sexy presentations!

Qualities

• Be open to collaborative discussion while being able to make decisions and maintain direction
• Be comfortable with politicians, business leaders, strangers, individuals in precarious situations
• Have a strong work capacity independently and excellent time and priority management
• Be passionate about SSE, associative and citizen engagement, and of course, community hubs
• Have a combined associative AND entrepreneurial mindset: seeking and achieving economic profitability with a high social impact project is a challenge.

Benefits

• Flex office: onsite at 7 Place d'Armes 83000 Toulon + telecommuting
• Flexible hours according to scheduled events with regular availability on Saturdays and evenings (2-3 per month).
• Permanent contract - 35 hours/week
• Salary: €26k gross annual (approx. €1700 net monthly)
• Hiring for fall 2024

Join our dynamic team and contribute to the civic life of Toulon by becoming the Coordinator of the community hub L'Amarre. Apply now!