About Tripod

Tripod is a small, independent, non-profit workers’ cooperative based in Edinburgh. We build the power of social movements tackling the root causes of injustice in Scotland and beyond. As a collective of facilitators and educators, we connect people and develop skills to embody the liberated futures we’re fighting for. We seed active solidarity and strengthen strategic collaboration within and across movements.

You can find out more about Tripod on our website. We’re in the process of developing our 2025-2027 strategy, you can find a sneak-peak on our blog.

About the Role

You will be responsible for coordinating our Consultation, Collaboration & Training (CCT) programme, which is Tripod’s income generating arm. As a non-profit, we offer training, facilitation,and other support on request to funded organisations using a sliding scale, to enable us to offer support to grassroots groups and movements with fewer financial resources. Due to high demand, one of our areas of focus for the coming years will be anti-racism training for white and mixed-race teams. As a worker-led cooperative, each member of staff also takes responsibility for Tripod’s smooth organisational functioning as we move towards our purpose together.

Co-Directorship

This role will involve an interim period of 8 months. This will be an opportunity for us to review how we have been working together and decide if you and Tripod are a good fit. This will also enable us to decide together if you should become a Full Member of the workers' cooperative which would involve being legally registered as a Director and participating fully in overall strategic and organisational decision making.

Tripod is a small, independent, non-profit workers’ cooperative that supports movements for social and environmental justice to align, connect and plan to win. You can find out more about us on our website.

Organising for Power is a comprehensive programme created for groups fighting for the rights and welfare of refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and people of colour. This programme strengthens grassroots organising for racial/migrant justice in Scotland.

Running since 2017 the programme has been offering high quality training, in-person and online support in essential campaign organising skills, peer-to-peer learning and consistent and sustained follow-up. The programme provides essential reflective space to review organising work and implement changes. A 5-day residential training has been part of the programme focusing on relational elements, as well as, strategic tools of movement-building. It provides a comfortable space where time is shared between skills development workshops and activities centred around care, creativity and solidarity. It enables different actors of the migrant and racial justice movement to come together and form strong relationships and solidarity between themselves and their groups . Participants draw on lessons from past movements and successful organising, share good practice, acquire key skills for strategic campaign organising and design and implement their own plans to strengthen their groups.

This evaluation will be carried out into 2 phases. The 1st phase or Midterm Evaluation will be evaluating the 3rd cohort of the programme (2022-2023) and the 2nd phase or End-of-Project Evaluation will be covering the 4th cohort of the programme (2023-2024).

A full Brief is available for download below.

About Tripod

Tripod is a small, independent, non-profit workers’ cooperative that supports movements for justice to align, connect and plan to win.

You can find out more about Tripod on our website.

About the Role

In this role you will:

• Co-develop and deliver our Organising for Power programme focused on strengthening the migrant/racial justice movement in Scotland;
• Support the delivery of Tripod’s other programmes by training and facilitating social and ecological justice organisers;
• Take a fair share of responsibility for organisational oversight alongside collective members and our Board.

We are looking for someone to commit to Tripod for the long-term, if the 8 month interim period works out for us all.

About Tripod

Tripod is a small, independent, non-profit workers’ cooperative that supports movements for justice to align, connect and plan to win.

You can find out more about Tripod on our website.

About the Role

In this role you will:

● Oversee all operations and organisational coordination;

● Support delivery of Tripod’s programmes with organisers for racial and ecological

justice;

● Design, develop and implement effective internal systems and processes in

collaboration with staff and our Board, to ensure Tripod’s organisational health;

● Contribute to collective decision-making and maintain a strong relationship between

staff and Board members.