Groups, Teams and Roles

An overview On Finding Your Ideal Role

Once you’ve completed the Foundation Programme, we hope you will be keen to find a role. We encourage you to join a Local Group first, if possible, to see how we work locally.

You can find your nearest Local Group and contact details on this map

Local groups are free to do what they want as long as they follow our Principles and Values, but we encourage them to follow XR's strategy and to support actions using whatever creative ideas they can.

You may want a ‘behind the scenes’ role with a regional, national or UK team. It’s fine to have more than one role in order to experience different aspects of XR. It’s also ok to leave a role if you find you no longer have capacity, or you would prefer to move to a different role, but please give your team a little notice.

To understand more about how a team should operate, read Healthy Teams

To find all the current vacancies within XR, visit our Volunteer Website

Roles are generally for regional, national or XR UK teams, each with a specific purpose, and this will be described by the team's mandate. If you successfully apply for a role, the team's Integrator will introduce you to the team at their meetings and work with you to agree your induction and training plan. Teams usually hold 1 or 2 Zoom meetings a week at a specific day and time.

Roles advertised on the Volunteer Website can be filtered by 'Role Type' from home (most roles) or in-person (e.g. Production & World Build Team).

You may be unsure what a role involves and the Rebel Pathway team is here to guide you and suggest roles that may suit you. We will help you apply, check that teams are responding to your applications and ask you to feed back with how you get on. We welcome feedback on your experiences as you become integrated. Also, if there's a team that would really suit your skills but isn't currently advertising a role, please let us know. You can contact the Rebel Pathway team here on MatterMost or by emailing integration@rebellion.earth.

Roles may be available in a wide range of groups and circles (see also the XR UK Organism).

UK Rebel Hive This is the broadest circle and represents rebels within and between the nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the regions in England. The Hive exists to grow and empower XR UK through decentralisation. Most members are external co-ordinators from the regions, nations and immediate sub circles, so UK Rebel Hive may offer only admin roles.

Action planning, creative, production or wellbeing These groups plan specific actions and rebellions which need UK-wide support. Normally you would have some experience already through your local group since you will be in a position of trust. In some cases, your actual presence would be required on the spot eg to help build stages for an action, or act as a steward or provide wellbeing on a march.

Money Rebellion To expose the economic systems that help to destroy life on earth and offer a path back to a regenerative economy. Its targets are organisations who support, develop or fund fossil fuels or other activities which damage the environment such as deforestation, flooding and pollution.

Digital Rebellion Carry out actions using social media, emailing or phoning campaigns to target specific organisations.

Teams running specific campaigns Action and outreach campaign groups with an action strategy that they could use some extra hands for e.g. Digital Rebellion, Deepwater.

Messaging and Media Writing, newsletters, social media, film, Rebel Radio, leaflets, posters, read, view and contact with the press.

Digital (UK Tech) Our computer services and technical team supporting and developing the following:-

our websites

email campaigns and newsletters using the Action Network application

messaging systems such as MatterMost and social media

the Hub, which holds data about XR UK groups and the roles held in them

the Cloud where each group holds its documents

platforms and networks where these services run

Digital is responsible only for the platforms holding these applications and ensuring they are available and free of bugs. It also provides help and training on how to use the applications. Other circles are responsible for the content, but Digital welcomes requests for advice on best practice. There is a generic role advertised for Digital on the Volunteers website

Communities Supporting XR groups across the UK, brought together by community, location or other affinity and including teams such as Local Group Development, Talks & Trainings, Rebellion Academy, Rebel Ringers, Reactive, Disabled Rebels Network, Connecting Communities, Rebel Toolkit and Rebel Pathway.

Relationships Facilitating and nurturing our relationships with movements outside of XR whose objectives overlap with ours, in order to increase collective pressure on the UK Government to meet XR’s Three Demands. These movements must be Nonviolent and may not use Direct Action.

Feedback and Learning Seeking feedback from rebels and groups to learn and improve, by running, analysing and publishing surveys.

Political Lobbying MPs, political parties, unions and Local Authorities, monitoring procedures and bills in Parliament.

Regenerative Cultures Creating a self-perpetuating system grown through community, ferocious love and genuine courage which sustains the understanding, exploration, development, training and sharing of regenerative practices.

Self Organising Systems (SOS) Provides governance by supporting teams on how to be self-organising, decentralised and non-hierarchical, by reference to the XR UK constitution and principles of holacracy. You don't need to read the constitution thoroughly but use it as a reference point. SOS will help a group to write their mandate, which describes their purpose and accountabilities and by which they should abide. Roles within a group can also have a mandate, which then becomes a role description and some types of role must have one. SOS can also be asked to conduct a "health check" on a group and then give advice. There are many types of groups and they need to decide which one is most appropriate. Here are the types of groups and how they work (Link to be added).

Guardianship and Visioning (G&V) helps rebels and groups to follow the XR UK vision, principles & values when rebelling with Extinction Rebellion.

International Solidarity Network (ISN) With the purpose of mutually respectful, co-operative and beneficial connections with people from existing grassroots communities of resistance on the front lines of the climate & ecological crises in both the Global South & Global North who are working on environmental justice are fostered.

UK Justice Steering Group (JSG) To bring in and amplify the unheard and silenced voices of historically and currently marginalised groups. To advocate that the movement becomes, and remains, radically diverse, equal and accessible for all through transformative and restorative justice.

Nations and Regions

Roles may also be for Scotland, Cymru Wales and Northern Ireland or for the UK regions North, North East, Midlands, East of England, South West, London and South East. You can find these roles quickly on the Volunteer Website by using the filter UK Region/Nation

Global Support This is a worldwide network of rebels who help XR chapters grow and this is their website Extinction Rebellion Global

Generic roles which may be needed in lots of teams, such as :

https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/link/881#bkmrk-integrator-%3A-recruit

Integrator : recruitment and training, needs some training and a little knowledge of the team Secretary : arrange meetings and take minutes, day to day running, possible faciliation but not expected Budget holder : understand what budget is available to a team and what it must be spent on, approve expense claims from receipts for goods and service and approve VLE (volunteer living expenses). Tech admin : set up new members and update existing in the Hub and Mattermost. Will need training and some experience in Hub / MM. No Comments