Forest management, Sustainable forestry

Title: Defend our Home Community Canvasser
Campaign: Defend Our Home 
Organization: Neighbours United
Location: Remote/Work form home

Start Date: September 8th or as soon as possible
End date: December 31, 2026, extension may be possible
Terms: Part time – 15hrs/week
Salary: $27.85
Positions open: 3

We're hiring up to three community canvassers to have conversations with everyday people about the impacts of current forestry management practices on forests and communities. If you love listening, storytelling, and talking with people, we want you to join our Defend our Home team!

About the Organization:

Neighbours United is a community-driven charity that brings people together in rural, small, and suburban areas to support policies that protect the people and places we love.

Through strategic campaigns using engagement organizing, deep canvassing, and communications, we are making progress on passing legislation for progressive solutions.

We focus on areas and audiences that are frequently written off as unreachable. We invest in real conversations that matter to people. By centering personal stories we broaden public support beyond the usual environmental base.

We are known for our deep canvassing based approach: listening, leading with personal stories, and creating space for people to wrestle with real tensions. Rather than broadcasting messages, we create conversations that allow people to reflect, connect, and act.

About the Role:

The Defend our Home Community Canvassers will have phone conversations with B.C. residents in key geographies across BC. These deep conversations focus on helping residents connect the impacts of current forestry management practices to their own personal lives and consider how prioritizing biodiversity and ecosystem health might support a new balance.

This position is work from home, the canvasser must be available for at least two shifts a week, the schedule will be determined based on availability when the team is hired.

Key Responsibilities:

• Have deep canvass conversations while phone canvassing using an online platform and logging accurate data for at least four hours of each shift.
• Participate in regular skills training and coaching to improve conversation skills.
• Accurately record data and contribute to debriefs to better inform our efforts, and be able to pivot as necessary based on what we are seeing to be most effective.
• Participate in leadership development and anti-oppression trainings, as required
• Meet regularly with the BC Campaigns Manager, individually and as a whole canvass team.
• Other responsibilities, as assigned by BC Campaigns Manager

Essential Skills and Experiences:

• Strong listening skills, and the ability to talk nonjudgmentally/neutrally with individuals that hold a wide range of viewpoints.
• Proven strong interpersonal, conflict resolution and communication skills
• Demonstrated commitment and passion to environmental justice and its intersections.
• Ability to work with diverse people.
• Ability to be emotionally resilient during work hours.
• Willing to vulnerably share stories and experiences from your life.
• Enthusiastic about learning, risk-taking and willing to make mistakes in the process.
• Able to work in a team, and ability to be motivated to work on your own.
• Fluency in English is required. Other bilingualism is an asset.
• Experience using databases and doing data entry.
• Legally entitled to work in Canada

Bonus if you have:

• Experience using calling software
• Experience in community organizing, campaigning, or canvassing
• Experience with social work, crisis support, or trauma-informed care

Compensation and Benefits:

Neighbours United is a Living Wage Employer. Employment benefits include:

• 5 paid sick days
• Vacation pay, paid out at 4% of base pay in each payroll cycle.
• Technology hardware provided.
• Paid Statutory holidays (for staff that have worked 15 of the previous 30 days, includes Boxing Day and additional consideration for days of cultural or religious significance
• Paid time for leadership training and for organizational justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion training

How to Apply:

Applicants are encouraged to identify in their applications if they are Indigenous Peoples, Black People, People of Colour, women, youth, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ2SAI+ communities, new immigrants, refugees, and/or are members of other visible minorities.

Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, with the intention to hire as soon as possible.

Send a letter answering “what do forests in B.C. mean to you?” to dana@neighboursunited.org with the subject line reading “Defend our Home Community Canvasser Application.”

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We thank all who apply and only those considered for the position will be contacted for interviews.