Calgary Acorn Part Time Organizer

2 weeks ago

Calgary, Canada Calgary ACORN Full time

**Calgary ACORN Part Time Organizer**
- **Your Job Title**:_ _ACORN Part Time Organizer and Fundraiser_
- **Where you will work**:_Report to Calgary ACORN office daily, work in the field._
- **Wage**:_$17.71 per hour_
- **Training is Provided**_
- **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**:_Rent caps and eviction protections in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; anti-tenant displacement policies in Burnaby, BC, lowering internet rates for 100’s of thousands of low income Canadians._

**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 assist our Lead Organizer with our expansion in Calgary and to help us win our_ campaigns for rent control and landlord registration.

**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 a community organizer**: Work with your Calgary Lead Organizer, and colleagues across the country, to learn the tried and true ACORN organizing model.

**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**
- 30 hours per week
- Work afternoons and evenings Monday through Friday and some Saturdays (Semi-Flexible on days work, hours are in afternoon and evenings)
- Room for growth in the organization, full time positions available, we prefer to hire from within

**Job Type**: Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: From $17.71 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Paid time off

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Quickly explain why you want to be an organizer for Calgary ACORN?

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2023-06-26

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