Action Groups

Group Description

• Securing funding for the National Cycling Coordinator (NCC) post – developing / submitting funding applications
• Securing funding for cycling (advocacy) projects – ditto
• Overview of income and expenditure of ICC – assist Treasurer in presenting quarterly reports to Executive and bi-annual reports to Council meetings.
• Membership – overview of issues related to membership
• Insurance issues – review the existing situation and bring forward and disseminate proposals to reinforce good practice

Skills and Expertise Wanted

Common sense and practical thinking required – no particular specialised skills although knowledge of spreadsheets would be an advantage. Group members should be capable of independent analysis of existing practices and how they can be improved. In many respects the funding of the NCC post is the most critical as it is the most challenging. It will be ongoing whereas project funding will be more short term.

This is group works on, firstly, building up the membership of the ICC and, secondly, helping to on-board new volunteers into domains which interest and excite them the most.

Skills and Expertise Wanted

This Action Group is still being developed, but essentially we need members with excellent people skills to speak with and meet our new members and help them to figure out how they can best use their energies and skills to advance our work.

Our purpose is to enable member groups and the national executive team to be more effective by seeking out frequently asked questions, enabling knowledge-sharing and providing solutions to common issues with tools, templates and tech.

Skills and expertise wanted

• Familiarity working with diverse individuals and dispersed/remote teams
• Experience in customer-centric roles such as customer support, user experience design or service design
• Experience with “team enabler” solutions including: CRM, knowledge-management, task & project management, event and campaign management, communications, etc.

The focus of this group’s activity is on formulating and implementing a Communications plan.

Skills and expertise wanted

We would welcome input from people with interest, skills, or expertise in: marketing; graphic design; or conventional, online, or social media. Your input will help us work towards our priority objectives of strengthening our external communications, shaping and influencing media debates, and creating partnerships and alignments with events, projects, groups and individuals with overlapping values.

This group will liaise with both national and local politicians around legislation, and on policy / strategy formation and delivery to further our own strategy priorities. It will identify and engage with various stakeholders and officers within political parties including policy / manifesto development party members. It will engage constructively across all parties to influence the discourse around active travel.

Skills and expertise wanted

• A willingness to work as a team to support both ICC at a national level while also supporting member groups at local or regional level.
• A willingness to engage patiently with all mainstream political parties to further ICC’s strategic plan.
• Previous campaign experience (political, civil or otherwise) may be of benefit but is not a prerequisite.
• A willingness to support and inform our wider membership on the current policy positions of political parties.

To continue to hold regular meetings with the major agencies, government departments, and Local Authorities re: the growth and safety of cycling, quality of cycle routes / networks etc. To keep our members informed of developments from these contacts.

• Other – Transport Infrastructure Ireland, City & County Managers’ Association, Local Authorities, Healthy Ireland, Irish Rail, Waterways Ireland, Office of Public Works etc.
• Department of Transport. Three separate units: Sustainable Transport & Policy; Roads, Active Travel & Greenways; Legislation & Road Safety
• National Transport Authority (NTA). Re: standards, oversight, funding, promotion (plus BusConnects).
• Road Safety Authority (RSA). Re: Road Safety Strategy, quicker updating of collision data, quicker reporting on an annual basis on injuries and deaths, campaigns etc.
• An Garda Síochána. Re: enforcement, education, training, reporting etc.

Skills and expertise wanted

• Basic understanding of general workings of government, agencies, and local authorities
• Ability to work as part of a team and ‘learn on the hoof’
• Interest / expertise in particular topic areas (e.g. legislation, design issues)
• Commitment to raising Cyclist.ie’s profile with bodies and to developing the cycling / climate agenda
• Availability to attend online meetings of Action group
• Ability to manage meetings and set agendas

This will evolve with the new team in place

1. Reviewing and collating transport / cycling related government & Local Authority consultations
2. Prioritising consultations and allocating leaders for them
3. Ensuring all draft submissions are posted for review / comment in Google Drive
4. Preparing website and social media posts to highlight submissions made
5. Developing a template for submissions for members (see also Action Group B above)

Skills and expertise wanted

General organisational skills

An interest in supporting or making submissions on public consultations, but also reviewing the effectiveness of these submissions. 

Availability to meet online and/or work remotely

Ability to process planning documentation and maps/drawings

The aim of this group is to bring research into action. Some of the actions that this group may initially focus on include:

• Collating research findings on cycling, road safety and sustainable mobility
• Exploring ways of disseminating the latest research findings 
• Exploring opportunities for linking researchers (including students) with “real life” problems / topics
• Establishing a network of researchers, working in the area of cycling and sustainable mobility

Skills and expertise wanted

We are looking for cycling enthusiasts that may have links with third level institutes or a background in research and would like to help with any of the above tasks.