Footprint Workers Co-op needs a new member to join the collective.

We need someone who can commit to working 8-15 hours a week for £7.50 per hour - 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 does is great and wants to join the co-op, become a director and take on a quarter equal share of all the responsibilities of running the Co-op.

No experience at printing 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. Knowledge 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, but by no means essential.

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. Or doing PAYE, tax returns, insurance...

Open, conscientious and easy-going: The thing about printing is that it really matters if you go wrong, so it’s important that you take care with your work. And we have to admit where we may have messed up so we can get to the bottom of problems quickly. Plus we have to all get on really well (there will only be 6 of us) 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

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

Closing date for applications Monday 22th November 2010

To register your interest drop us an e-mail to tell us about yourself and await further instructions...