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Be a Neighbourhood Connector in McCauley

Neighbours knowing neighbors will help McCauley be a better place for all of us to live. To make that happen, McCauley Community League is partnering with the City of Edmonton and McCauley Revitalization in the Abundant Community Initiative. We hope to have a Neighborhood Connector start work in September who will find and lead a team of block connectors. This team will talk to their neighbours, encouraging all to participate and contribute in making McCauley a place where all residents feel connected.

Neighbourhood Connector Contract Position
Neighbourhood Connectors have a passion for the “connectedness of their neighbourhood.” They are the people in the Neighbourhood who know large numbers of people and who make introductions happen.

Neighbourhood Connectors will need to be able to:

  • Be confident and passionate enough to seek out Block Connectors from each block in the neighbourhood.
  • Have leadership ability to direct and motivate the Block Connectors to have conversations with each of the households on their block.
  • Have organizational skills to engage the entire neighbourhood.
  • Be bold enough and have social skills sufficient to have a conversation with any neighbour.
  • Be sufficiently hospitable to be able to convene the Block Connectors for encouragement and “team” support.
  • Have teaching ability sufficient to guide the Block Connectors to competence in their conversations and next steps (e.g. facilitating connections between neighbours as need or interest dictates).
  • Have the technical competence enough to collate and correlate the neighbourhood data (gathered from Block Connector conversations with neighbours).
  • Be gracious and patient enough to work with all levels of competence and commitment.
  • Have communication skills – verbal and written – to communicate with Block Connectors, neighbours, and the community league leadership group.

Term: One Year, 400 hours.

Please send resume to Rosalie Gelderman by July 31, 2015.

mccauleycommunityleague2014@gmail.com

_“Abundant Community is based on the belief that every individual in a neighbourhood has a contribution to make, and uncovering, sharing and the harnessing of those contributions creates neighbourliness, and also addresses issues as diverse as social isolation, crime, and physical and mental health…” Mary Sturgeon, Project Manager, Make Something Edmonton

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