Halifax Acorn Part Time Organizer

3 weeks ago


Halifax, Canada Halifax ACORN Full time

Your job title: ACORN Lead Organizer

Where you will work: Report to the Halifax ACORN office daily, work in the field.

Starting wage: $18.77 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 cap in Nova Scotia and for 10 months in New Brunswick; eviction protections in New Brunswick, landlord registration in the Halifax Regional Municipality. $10 NSF fees recently announced by the federal government.

Job Summary: Work with ACORN’s national field director to perform the needed tasks to sustain and build ACORN’s organization in Atlantic Canada.

Four main roles of the job:
1. Outreach: Phone calling, door knocking, street canvassing, petitioning, online communications, to bring new people into the organization and then linking them to the existing membership and campaigns.

2. Fundraising: Assist in bringing in revenues to the organization.

3. Working with the Atlantic ACORN leadership: Check in weekly and work with our dynamic leadership in Atlantic Canada.

4. Maintain and expand neighborhood chapters: Work in person with the three chapters ACORN has in the HRM, and remotely with our New Brunswick chapter.

Qualifications and Skills Sets:

- Strong social and people skills
- Work ethic and self-discipline
- Ability to work in a team setting, sometimes leading and sometimes following
- Listening skills
- Social media and communication skills
- Conflict resolution

Hours and Compensation:

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

**Note**: There is a full-time job opportunity with a month-long, expenses-paid, out-of-town training. A one-year minimum commitment for employment is required.

**Job Type**: Part-time

Pay: From $18.77 per hour

Expected hours: 25 - 35 per week

**Benefits**:

- Paid time off

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed

Application question(s):

- MUST ANSWER - Why you want to be an organizer for Halifax ACORN?

Work Location: In person



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