The Co-ordinator will eventually be the information point for the course in your authority, someone who is experienced in using it and knows their way around it.  They will also be the person who has direct long term contact with Opening the Book for questions and feedback.  They will also need to liaise with your authority's IT department to ensure that all the technical requirements are in place.  For instance, all trainees and supervisors will need an individual email address in order to take this course.

The Co-ordinator will first go through the entire course themselves as a trainee, and be directly supervised by Opening the Book, through email and phone calls. 

The course works by a cascade system of trainees and supervisors.  Once the Co-ordinator has finished the course, they then start their first trainees on the course, and act as their supervisor.  Opening the Book will be available to help the Co-ordinator through this first process of supervising and answer any questions about it.  Those first trainees, once they had finished the course to the Co-ordinator's satisfaction, can then in turn supervise others.

The Co-ordinator will hold the first experience of both using and supervising the course and will have explored many different possibilities with Opening the Book.  They will have a base of email advice and their own experience upon which to build a record of experience within your authority. 

Their role will develop as the rollout widens in your authority, and their focus will be on maintaining the quality of learning and inducting and supporting a network of supervisors.

Their role could also include important decisions about staff development – who will supervise whom, and whether to deploy the course through the management structure, or alongside it to make new staff relationships.