Your Job Title: ACORN Field Organizer - Full Time
Where you will work: 3 month training in Toronto or Calgary ACORN offices, then reporting to BC ACORN's office in downtown New Westminster
Salary / Compensation - $43,400 plus benefits.
ACORN is a community action group / union that punches above its weight class. If you want to win victories for tenants and working class people - and not just talk about it - ACORN is the place for you.
Recent ACORN victories: Rent caps and eviction protections in New Brunswick; anti-tenant displacement policies in Toronto, Hamilton, and London, Ontario, landlord-use eviction ban in BC, maximum heat-bylaw in New Westminster, ccapping NSF bank fees at $10, saving working-class Canadians hundreds of millions annually.
Job Summary: The job of any organizer is a field organizing position. It's not a desk job - ACORN organizing is no different. The job enables you to learn how to organize by doing it full-time while earning a reasonable salary funded by ACORN's low-to-moderate-income membership dues. ACORN's member run structure means you are accountable to the people you organize.
Four main roles of the job:
- Outreach: Door Knocking, Street Canvassing, Petitioning to bring new people into the organization and then linking them to the existing membership and campaigns.
- Fundraising: Maintain and grow ACORN’s existing base of monthly member dues and donations.
- Learn how to be an ACORN community organizer: Out of province training with an experienced ACORN organizer will enable you to learn how ACORN's organizing model works. The model is tried, tested and true - your job will be to learn from our experts and then organize communities back in Metro Vancouver.
Qualifications and Skills Sets:
- Strong social and people skills
- Work ethic and self discipline
- Ability to work in a team setting that you are sometimes leading, and sometimes following
- Listening skills
- Social media and communication skills
- Conflict resolution
Hours and Compensation
- $43,400 salary in first year. Increases annually.
- Phone and transportation allowance
- Health benefits, pension, and sick days after 6 month probationary period.
- Room for growth in the organization, full time positions available, we hire from within (cause we need people who know how to organize to run the organization!)
- Afternoon and evenings until 9PM Monday through Friday. Two Saturday shifts per month.
To Apply: ATTACH A COVER LETTER
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Pay: From $43,400.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Mileage reimbursement
- RRSP match
Application question(s):
- What is your availability?
- What is something that you want to see changed in British Columbia?
- Do you have previous experience, either paid or volunteer, that relates to this job?
Work Location: In person
