Canada Senior Organizing Specialist

350.org is looking for a passionate and experienced organizer to help us grow the climate movement in Canada, and to support activists to lead and participate in campaigns for energy and climate justice

About 350.org 

350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries. 350.org works hard to organize in a new way—everywhere at once, using online tools to facilitate strategic offline action. We want to be a laboratory for the best ways to strengthen the climate movement and catalyze transformation around the world. The values that guide and drive our work are listed here.

About the Canada Senior Organizing Specialist

As part of the 6-person Canada Team, the Senior Organizing Specialist will plan and lead our efforts to grow the scale, capacity, and diversity of the climate justice movement in Canada. It’s an exciting time to join the team as we push the government to back up the Sustainable Jobs Plan with strong legislation and organize towards a major mobilization this fall. We’re also researching and building out what comes next, experimenting with a range of campaigns to erode Big Oil’s influence over the government while championing real climate solutions.

Areas of responsibility include:

• Develop, implement, and evaluate plans to grow and support a network of activists and groups who are organizing and mobilizing in line with 350.org’s values and strategic priorities in Canada
• Establish and manage national online and in-person organizing structures to build a stronger, more diverse and impactful climate justice movement. 
• Identify and systematize needs of groups, and inspire, train and support them to run and/or participate in effective campaigns, events, and national days of action
• Project manage organizing work and manage short-term contract staff as needed
• Ensure high-quality actions and organizing while assessing and mitigating risk to provide a positive experience for participants
• Work with the Canada Organizer to build connections with existing grassroots networks and activist groups, exploring opportunities for collaboration and joint work. As needed, support the creation of new groups
• Use 350.org’s digital tools to communicate with volunteers and track their engagement and leadership development
• Contribute to the wider work of the Canada team and 350.org’s global initiatives, including campaign planning, digital campaigns and communications, and coalition work
• Stay up-to-date with best organizing practices and experiment with a variety of organizing models and solutions
• Understand 350.org’s history, campaigns, theory of social change, and keep current with basic climate science and policy. Use this knowledge to represent 350.org's perspective in the media or other public venues as needed

Required Experience & Attributes

• 4+ years of (staff and/or volunteer) experience in the nuts and bolts of organizing including recruiting, training, and developing leadership in volunteer-led grassroots groups
• Experience in running national organizing programs and organizing at scale
• Experience with movement building and working with diverse coalitions, especially with Indigenous communities, racialized communities, low-income communities, and communities affected by climate change
• Ability to organize campaigns with diverse groups, including in multi-racial and/or cross-class settings
• Ability to think strategically and craft organizing plans that create real-world impact and build power
• Strong project management skills with the ability to deliver high-quality work within tight timeframes and manage multiple projects and relationships
• Excitement to learn and familiarity with digital organizing tools and strategies (peer-to-peer texting, digitally distributed phone banks, and distributed event and host support tools, etc.)
• Comfortable working independently in a remote team environment and familiarity with online collaboration tools and virtual meeting tools (Slack, Zoom, Google Docs, etc)
• Willingness to travel within Canada and internationally as required

Additional assets

• Experience in diverse organizing contexts and models, including labour/structure-based organizing, mass protest, coalition-building, and political organizing
• Proven ability to build and lead a local activist organization, including creating effective structures, decision-making processes and impactful campaigns to influence decision makers
• Fluency in additional languages, particularly French
• Ability to create externally-facing content, written and visual, for organizing campaigns
• Experience collaborating with international teams on global campaigns

If you do not meet every qualification listed above, but have relevant professional and/or lived experience and feel passionate about the role, we encourage you to apply.

Salary: SG 2.1 - $86,258 CAD per year, plus benefits, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as wellness, internet and phone stipends. Full-time position (36 hours per week)

Reports to: Canada Team Lead

Location: This is a virtual position, and the successful candidate can be based anywhere in Canada. However, some travel will be required for in-person meetings and events. The applicant must have access to their own office setup, but a laptop and other equipment can be provided as needed

Work schedule: This role is a primarily remote role, with occasional evening or weekend work to attend external meetings, events, and campaign activities. Time off in lieu will be arranged accordingly

Start Date: To be discussed with the selected candidate, but ideally as soon as possible

Application Deadline: April 19, 2023

How to apply

We recognize that the climate crisis hits the hardest among Indigenous Peoples, Black people, racialized people, women, people with disabilities, working class people, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We believe communities most affected by climate change must be centered in the work we do and therefore strongly encourage applications from members of any communities that are disproportionately impacted by environmental, social, and economic injustice.

To apply, submit your CV and in lieu of a cover letter, answer the following questions in no more than 200 words per question:

1. Why are you interested in this role?  
2. What are your top three qualifications for this role? 
3. What is your favorite campaign that 350.org has run in Canada, and why? How could we have improved, expanded, or scaled its impact?  
4. Tell us about an organizing-focused campaign, project, or tactic you led. What was your goal, what made it effective, and what did you learn?  

The recruitment process may be adapted by the hiring team as needed to assess candidates’ potential to succeed in this role. Currently, we anticipate the selection process will include the following steps:

• Shortlisting: We’ll shortlist candidates and schedule a short phone screening call. During this call, we’ll provide more information about the role, team, and organization.
• Written Task: Candidates will complete a time-limited written task, which will help determine if they are a good fit for the role. 
• Panel Interview: We’ll conduct a panel interview by video call.
• Reference checks: Candidates should be prepared to provide the names and contact information for three references who can speak to their experience and potential for this role.  

We strive to ensure 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 you have any other suggestions for improving our hiring processes, please email us at[email removed - click apply for more details] with the subject line “Hiring Feedback: Canada Senior Organizing Specialist.”