We're recruiting one or two new Members to join our Collective

Closing date for applications Monday 5th March 2012, interviews mid-March

We need one or two people who can commit to working 8-15 hours a week for £7.50 per hour on printing and web design and/or on financial administration for Rootstock Ltd* - we’re not in it for the money!  

We don’t want an employee who just turns up does the work and goes home.
We want someone who thinks that what Footprint (and Rootstock) does is great and wants to join the co-op, become a director and take an equal share of all the responsibilities of running the Co-op.  We also want people who are looking for a long-term commitment, as it takes at least a year to get up to speed.

No experience at printing or financial admin is necessary, but there are other essential qualities and skills in a good co-op member**.  

Well organised and able to follow procedures: Because we often work at different times, following procedures and filling in paperwork is crucial to enable someone else to carry on from where you left off.

Computer Literate: Most Footprint work involves sitting in front of a computer. You’ll be using Excel, Access, distilling Acrobat PDF’s, etc. Knowlege of desktop publishing (Adobe Indesign, MS Publisher, Quark) and graphics packages
(Photoshop, Illustrator) would be a great advantage.  Also we provide web design services so experience of this and the Joomla CMS in particular would be useful.

Numerate: You will learn to quote for jobs, which calls for a reasonably high level of numeracy.  The quoting spreadsheets can be daunting to look at, so spreadsheets full of figures must not phase you.  You will also do bookkeeping and prepare financial reports for Rootstock, which is a fiddly business.

Open, conscientious and easy-going: The thing about printing and accounting is that it really matters if you go wrong, so it’s important that you take care with your work and admit where you may have messed up so we can get to the bottom of problems quickly. Attention to detail is crucial. Plus we have to all get on really well or it just won’t work.

Involved in changing the status quo: Challenging oppression in any of its forms, generally doing stuff with the rest of your time which is more worthwhile than being a Footprint wage slave.  Footprint is a member of the Radical Routes network of co-ops working for social change, which means that each of us commits to helping out with that too - more info: www.radicalroutes.org.uk

We particularly need someone with IT tech skills and web and graphic design skills

Other useful attributes and skills thus far not mentioned include:
Good with cantankerous machines and good problem-solving abilities.
An active political imagination.
A vaguely green outlook.

Closing date for applications Monday 5th March 2012

Send your CV together with a copy of the application questionnaire

Contact us for a copy or download it here
0113 262 4408
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* Footprint currently holds the financial administration contract for Rootstock Ltd, the investment-raising arm of Radical Routes.
**We’re not saying that we are any of these but it would be good if you were.