Meaningful Full-time Work
3 weeks ago
Are you looking for meaningful full-time work? Are you passionate about social and economic justice? Would you rather work in the community instead of an office all day? Do you thrive in an energetic, fast-paced and grassroots environment?
If YES then we invite you to join the ACORN team of organizers
- Direct community outreach in low and moderate income neighbourhoods. Identifying community concerns and connecting issues like high rent, bad landlords and expensive bills to the need for collective action. Motivate residents to join/form local groups to exercise their rights and advocate for change.
- Develop low income residents' skills to facilitate meetings, speak to the media, lead direct action and speak to their local representatives.
- Work with professional organizers on a day to day basis to learn how to create building and neighbourhood-wide campaigns through base-building activities, corporate research, mass communications, fundraising, project management skills and more.
- 42 hours per week - working in afternoons and evenings between 12-9pm. Salary with benefits, transit/phone reimbursements, sick days and paid vacation. Some 30-37.5 hour per week positions also available.
- Attends out of city staff trainings and meetings (sometimes outside of Canada) approximately 3 times a year depending on COVID.
- **Qualifications and Skills**_
- No paid experience required; professional organizer training is provided
- Strong desire to work with people
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Ability to listen in order to identify issues that are affecting our people
- An interest in social justice and able to explain that in a _brief cover letter_
- **What is ACORN?**_
ACORN Canada is a local and national community organization of low and moderate income people fighting for social justice. We are a membership based organization that is independent from the governments, corporations and banks we seek to hold accountable. We are 160,000 members strong across 24 neighbourhood chapters in nine cities.
ACORN organizers build power for working class people
Some of our major victories include:
- $10/month internet for 220,000 low income families through the federal Connecting Families program & some social housing providers
- Stricter regulations and lowered interest rates on payday loan companies like Money Mart
- $15 million/year in the city budget for affordable housing since 2019
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of repairs into our members' units and apartments
- Stopping our members' evictions and AGIs (Above the guideline rent increases)
- AND MORE
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent
**Salary**: $39,000.00-$44,000.00 per year
**Benefits**:
- Automobile allowance
- Casual dress
- Commuter benefits
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
Flexible Language Requirement:
- French not required
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- OTTAWA, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you enjoy working with people/in the community?
- Did you provide a brief cover letting outlining your interest in social justice and why you think you'd be a good fit for this position?
Work Location: One location
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