Project Manager

Life in Vacant Spaces Trust:

Life in Vacant Spaces is a Trust (charitable status pending), established in June 2012 to help Gap Filler, Greening the Rubble, CCC and others enable the huge outpouring of vacant space ideas from the community. Our mission is to tap into the creative energy of Christchurch and enable hundreds of temporary activations of vacant sites and buildings to bring joy, optimism, opportunity and community leadership to the recovery of the city.

LIVS knows that Christchurch people and organisations have the ideas and ability to generate new artistic, cultural, educational, recreational, environmental and commercial uses for vacant spaces. We believe that helping people to use vacant spaces will create dynamism, vibrancy and inspiration within our city to enrich our recovery journey and the nature of the city we are co-creating together.

The role of LIVS is to do the background work that lowers the barriers and risks for temporary and longer term uses of vacant spaces: we broker access to vacant spaces, provide resources to help projects flourish, ensure that property owners are not inconvenienced, provide the public liability insurance, prepare the legal documents and champion the power of the community to lead our recovery and urban revitalisation.

Project Manager Role Description:

The Project Manager is a key support role. Responsible for supporting community-led projects to be delivered in vacant spaces, the Project Manager will be a passionate advocate for community leadership in urban regeneration with a practical mind and can-do attitude.

The Project Manager will be the primary contact point for people wanting to develop and implement projects in vacant spaces, identifying and overcoming the barriers between idea and fruition, and keeping LIVS well organised. Success in the role will be measured by how supported people and community organisations feel, as well as the number of community ideas that LIVS has helped to implement.

Key skills

Resourcefulness, determination, ingenuity and integrity, communication skills, diplomatic, self-assured, project management skills, public speaking, budgeting, organisation