Edinburgh Tool Library are looking to recruit an Easy Sharing Coordinator to work in several neighbourhoods across Edinburgh, including Wester Hailes.
The post is for 1 day a week requiring local travel requires local travel and occasional evening and weekend working, with a salary of £21,000 pa pro rata.
The post is a fixed term six-month contract starting in April 2019.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive individual to operate Easy Sharing, a six-month pilot project. Easy Sharing will allow people in the West of Edinburgh to reserve tools and collect them at one of four local community centres. The Easy Sharing Coordinator will load ETL’s electric van with reserved tools and drop them off at the four pickup points, collect tools that are being returned and bring them back, and build community with Easy Sharing users and links with the community centres. The pilot project will start with a community making event at each of the four community centres, which the Coordinator will organise.
This is a diverse and creative role, combining skills and aptitude for practical work with tools, sharing skills, building social connections and engaging community, inventory management, and sound practical and organisational skills.
The ideal candidate will be friendly and approachable with hands-on experience of engaging and working with communities. Some knowledge of woodworking and upcycling skills and experience driving a van would be desirable, but not essential – we will provide all the training you need! But you do need to have a full driving licence. The Edinburgh Tool Library is an equal opportunities employer.
The closing date for applications is Friday 22 March 2019. You can download an application pack here.
