Smart D8 Community Coordinator
The Liberties Community Project are recruiting to fill the role of Smart D8 Community Coordinator. The closing date for receipt of applications is 2nd April 2025.
The Smart D8 initiative has been successfully working with Dublin 8 residents, workers, students, healthcare providers, industry partners, start-ups and academic researchers to develop innovative solutions which could positively impact city life and the health and wellbeing of citizens in the decades to come.
The Smart Dublin 8 Partners are: The Digital Hub Development Agency, Dublin City Council, Smart Dublin, St. James’s Hospital, NCAD, St Patrick’s Mental Health Services, Tyndall Research Institute, TTMI-TCD, Health Innovation Hub Ireland, Health Services Executive Digital Academy and the Guinness Enterprise Centre.
Due to the success to date the Smart D8 initiative this role will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to build and galvanize participation of the Dublin 8 community in the development of health and wellbeing pilots and demonstration projects with real and lasting positive outcomes.
This job description describes the principal purpose and main elements of the job. It is a guide to the nature and key responsibilities of the job but is not intended as a wholly comprehensive or permanent description.
The Liberties Community Project is committed to a policy of equal opportunity.
Hiring Body
The Liberties Community Project– is an amalgamation of SICCDA and Robert Emmet CDP- two South West Inner City Dublin community development organisations established in 1982 and 2003 respectively in response to long term localised unemployment and poverty. A decision by both boards to engage in a voluntary merger process was affected in July 2024.
The Liberties Community Project deliver a wide array of charitable programmes across a number of key areas according to local need. However, we believe that effective community development is about more than delivering charitable services to ease the burden that inequitable policy and resourcing decisions have the on the South West Inner City community. It is about supporting a local community engage in research and advocacy projects that can drive decisions that affect their own development; and it’s about enjoying the journey and the learning that comes with this.
Key Responsibilities
The area of health and wellbeing in cities is one that is garnering more and more attention as developments in technology allow us cheaper and more accurate ways of managing both human and environmental systems. In addition to this, there is an increasing body of research regarding the relationship between human health and our urban environment, particularly in the areas of air quality, noise pollution and green and blue space within cities. At the same time, we are faced with multiple challenges in the health system including an ageing population, high rates of obesity and increasing antibiotic resistance, challenges which will require inter-disciplinary and cross-organisational cooperation to tackle.
The Smart D8 initiative aims to develop ongoing collaborations and unlock new opportunities for innovators in the areas of healthcare and community wellbeing in Dublin 8.
The successful candidate will report to the CEO of The Liberties Community Project and will work alongside the Smart D8 partners to coordinate activities over the next two years aimed at driving pilots of Smart Health and Wellbeing in Dublin 8.
Please see full job description and application information at ActiveLink.ie.