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Peel ACORN Community Organizer Part-Time - ACORN Canada

Peel ACORN Community Organizer Part-Time

Is social justice a passion of yours? Do you want to work in a grassroots environment that develops groups of low-to-moderate income people to fight for change?

Then we want YOU to join the ACORN organizing team!

What is ACORN?

ACORN Canada, the nationwide community union of low-to-moderate income people, is expanding our organizing in Brampton. Our purpose is to give low-to-moderate income people the power needed to have their voices effectively heard at the highest levels in the country.

How?

Organizers do direct outreach, listen to community residents’ concerns, and connect what they want to see changed to effective mass-based action. Organizing protests, developing campaigns, coordinating communications and research, and, most important, building powerful local groups all across the National Capital Region!

ACORN is a multi-issue, mass based union of low-to-moderate income people. ACORN is able to be both a local-based union winning local campaigns, as well as a large-scale organization combining forces to fight national corporations and governments that are at the root of most of our problems.

We are a tenants’ union. We are a disability action union. We are a worker’s union. We are a consumer’s union. We are whatever our members are. Our members pay dues so that the organization can be sustainable and not dependent on outside funding from government and corporations. Each dues member has a vote, and only members speak for the organization. Our members get elected to our board of directors and set our policy and help determine the tactics.

DUTIES OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

*APPLY WITH COVER LETTER*

  • Building/expanding neighbourhood groups by being directly in the communities we’re organizing.
  • Work with existing ACORN members and cultivating new leaders to expand both our neighbourhood and municipal campaigns.
  • Promoting community meetings, press conferences, townhalls, protests, sit-in’s and other direct actions organized by ACORN Community Organizers.
  • Fundraising and asking for money is a fundamental part of ACORN staffs’ jobs. We are structured like a union: ACORN members pay membership dues. While this is not the entire job, it’s fundamental that community organizers sign up members and can ask for dues and donations.
  • Work with our Head Organizer on a day to day basis to learn the basics of ACORN’s organizing methods and techniques.
  • 20-25 hours per week – working in afternoons and evenings between 1-9pm.
  • Willing and able to travel to training, and staff meetings – 3 meetings in a year.
  • Dealing with multiple tasks in the same day – flexibility and resilience are keys to success.

MUST HAVES

  • Strong social and people skills
  • Ability to listen and identify the issues people are facing
  • Compassionate
  • Self-driven but able to follow instructions
  • Multi-tasking
  • Have a vehicle and driving license

GOOD TO HAVE

Knowledge of other languages.

*****APPLY WITH A COVER LETTER AND RESUME – WE WANT TO KNOW WHY YOU THINK YOU A GOOD FIT FOR THE ROLE****

Salary: From $18.15 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 25 per week

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Lot’s of opportunity for growth. Organizers are advanced quickly who do a good job.

No prior experience required.