Your Job Title: ACORN Field Organizer
Where you will work: BC ACORN office in New West (Columbia Station) and in the communities we work.
Salary: 44,000.00
Training is Provided: Those with experience may be able to start at a higher wage
ACORN is a community action group / union that punches above its weight class. If you want to actually win victories for tenants and working class people - and not just talk about it - ACORN is the place for you.
Recent ACORN victories: Capping NSF fees at $10 nationally, rent caps and eviction protections in New Brunswick; landlord-use eviction ban in BC.
Job Summary: The job of an ACORN organizer is a field organizing position, not a desk job. The job enables you to get active and get out in the communities we organize in. The organizers role is to help manage our resurgence and expansion in BC and to help us win our campaigns for major tenant law reform and vacancy control in BC.
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. Manage our medium and long term fundraising efforts from allied labour organizations and foundations.
- Learn how to be a community organizer: Work with your supervisors in ACORN’s National Office, and colleagues across the country, to learn the tried and true ACORN organizing model. You will be paid to travel to training and meetings.
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
- This is permanent employment
- 42 hours per week
- Work afternoons and evenings Monday through Friday and some weekends.
- Room for growth in the organization, full time positions available, we prefer to hire from within
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $44,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Flexible schedule
Application question(s):
- What interests you about organizing with ACORN?
- What is your availability for this FULL TIME job?
- Do you have previous experience, either paid or volunteer, that relates to this job?
Work Location: In person
