Advocacy Organizing / Campaigning

Organizer Job Posting

Position: Organizer (permanent, full-time)
Organization: Leadnow
Location: Preference for candidates based outside of BC. Ontario-based is preferred

• Closing date: Thursday, October 17 at 11:59pm Pacific Time
• Start Date: As soon as possible
• Compensation: $61,160.86, plus benefits, including paid vacation, sick leaves, and access to a professional dev budget. This is a unionized position with BCGEU, based on a 4 day workweek (32 hours, Mon-Thurs, with salary unchanged)

This role will require work on weekends and evenings to support Leadnow volunteer events.

Summary

Leadnow is an independent advocacy organization powered by more than 600,000 members campaigning for social, economic and climate justice. Together, we do what it takes, with fierce integrity, to have impact as a powerful progressive force in Canada.

Our campaigns aim to create accessible opportunities online and on the ground for people to organize and influence the priorities and policies of governments and corporations. We want a more open, accountable, and representative democracy because decisions should be driven by the people whose lives they affect.

About the role

Reporting to the Organizing Manager, Organizers at Leadnow are responsible for designing and delivering effective organizing programs that build the power and leadership of our movement.

Organizers at Leadnow are the relational connection between our staff team and our volunteers. Our organizers build authentic relationships with our volunteer leaders at an individual and group level, engage in coaching and mentorship, and are responsible for fostering a fun, supportive and empowering environment.

Organizers also help develop the organizing priorities of the organization, lead the planning and execution of organizing tactics, develop communications materials and trainings for volunteers, and maintain databases and digital tools to keep this all on track.

Responsibilities:

Organizing strategy and plans

• Work with the campaigns team (especially the Organizing Manager) to develop organizing strategies that set the organization on track to deliver on strategic priorities. These strategic plans will include organizing tactics, volunteer recruitment and training plans
• Create and deliver high-quality, thoughtful organizing campaigns, using your creativity to design and implement inspiring and impactful journeys with clear theories of change.
• Help set organizing targets and monitor organizing campaigns to see if the goals are being achieved
• Help with data-driven and qualitative evaluation of our organizing efforts

Organizing tactics

• Recruit, train, support and retain volunteers
• Build relationships with volunteers and external partners
• Plan and execute events
• Manage our organizing tactics, such as distributed organizing support for rallies, lobby meetings, and days of action, phone banking, canvassing, peer-to-peer texting, and data entry

Communications + Training

• Prepare campaign and organizing resources like toolkits, flyers, brochures, etc.
• Plan and deliver trainings, orientations and events (on and offline) that build leadership and volunteer capacity

Data + Tech

• Help create and maintain tracking systems for organizing - including thoughtful user journeys
• Track potential and current volunteers for place-based and distributed organizing
• Provide tech and digital campaigning support as needed, vis-a-vis specific organizing and overall campaign team priorities

You should apply if:

We’re seeking candidates with a mix of the following characteristics. If you don’t meet all of them, but are energized by Leadnow’s mission and excited about how you could contribute in this role, we want to hear from you.

• You’re excited about devising effective strategies to bring new people into progressive movements and empower them to influence and change the issues and challenges that most impact them.
• You’re good at strategic thinking and problem-solving and are energized by creating effective actions to influence decision-makers and move us toward our goals
• You have strong interpersonal communication skills, thrive on frequent one-on-one and large group interactions, and can work well with colleagues and volunteers with a wide range of identities.
• You have experience empowering volunteers, coaching, and team facilitation and training
• You’ve got a growth and learning mindset, committed to learning and improving
• You’re a great team player and communicator, and also able to drive work independently
• You’re organized, accountable, and great at taking initiative in identifying gaps and finding and implementing solutions
• You’re able to effectively prioritize and handle different demands and shift with evolving political campaigning contexts
• You’re excited about working in a proactive anti-oppression (eg. anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, and against other harmful -isms) work environment that engages in necessary and sometimes tough conversations and trainings to identify and dismantle structural inequalities within and beyond Leadnow

Some things that would be considered ‘big pluses’ but are not required, are:

• Previous experience with volunteer management, field organizing or political organizing
• You understand basic data analysis and analytics, and A/B testing, particularly in a digital campaigning environment
• Past experience with digital campaigning (email, social media, digital ads)
• Experience running P2P texting actions and digitally distributed phone banks
• Experience working with Action Network, Action Builder, CallHub, ControlShift, AirTable, Zapier, P2P texting platforms
• You have skills in Government Relations, media, or public relations

As a leading progressive campaigning organization, we recognize the importance of our staff reflecting the communities our work aims to benefit. Even as we work to unlearn our biases, we know that our identities and lived experiences affect how we work, prioritize, and how we build relationships. We strongly encourage candidates who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, women, 2SLGBTQIA, immigrants, people with disabilities, and people from low-income and working-class backgrounds and/or with lived experience of poverty to apply. We recognize that this is neither exhaustive nor representative of the intersectionality (ie. many identities and experiences) present within each person.

How to apply

To submit an application, please send the following, ideally in a single PDF, to jobs@leadnow.ca by Thursday, October 17 at 11:59pm Pacific Time:

• Your CV or resume

• In lieu of a cover letter, a supporting application, addressing the following three questions (suggested max of 250 words per question):

1. Why are you applying for this job? Briefly tell us why you’re interested and how you’re suited.

2. Briefly describe an organizing campaign or action that you led (or had a significant hand in shaping), including the goal, the strategy, and the results or main learnings.

3. Unequal power dynamics shape how we move through the world and how we interact and work with others. Could you share your understanding of your own backgrounds and identities (this may include your reflections on the ways you have/do not have power or privilege, or do or don't experience discrimination) and how that might shape your approach to this role?

   If applicable, list which of the ‘big plus’ skills you have, with a few sentences of explanation if helpful for context.

Please mention that you saw this posting at GoodWork.ca.

Leadnow is committed to ensuring that all applicants are able to participate in our hiring processes to the best of their ability. Please indicate in your application if there’s anything we can do to make the application or interview process more accessible. If there are any aspects of this posting or the cover letter questions above that you don't understand, please contact us at jobs@leadnow.ca and we'd be happy to support you.

Only selected candidates will be contacted by Thursday, October 24, 2024 to organize next steps. Short-listed candidates will be invited to complete a take-home task (sent on October 24 and due October 27), then an interview.