Canada Senior Organizer (Temporary)

350.org is looking for a passionate and experienced organizer and trainer 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

This is a 6.5 month cover role during the back-to-back sabbatical leaves of two members of the Canada Team. 

As part of 350.org’s 6-person team in Canada, the Canada Senior Organizer will help build capacity and coordination within the movement for climate solutions, and support our Show the Feds campaign for clean energy grounded in a broader vision for affordable, safe green housing, energy, and transit, as well as green jobs and immediate relief for communities impacted by climate change.  

Areas of responsibility include:

Training & capacity building:

• Develop resources and implement a training program that helps local organizers design and run campaigns as part of a decentralized organizing network. 
• Support with identifying the needs and priorities of local climate justice groups who are campaigning for climate solutions.

Distributed organizing: 

• Support with the implementation of 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. 
• Use 350.org’s digital tools to communicate with volunteers, track their engagement, and develop their leadership.

Campaign support: 

• 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.
• 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 with movement building and organizing campaigns with diverse groups, including in multi-racial and/or cross-class settings.
• Ability to think strategically and craft training plans that build capacity and 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.
• Strong understanding of climate justice frameworks, including the intersection of climate issues with racial justice, Indigenous rights, and economic justice. 
• 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 as required. 

Additional assets

• Experience with local climate justice solutions, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizations. 
• Ability to build and lead a local activist organization, including creating effective structures, decision-making processes and impactful campaigns to influence decision makers. 
• Experience in running organizing programs and organizing at scale.
• Experience in diverse organizing contexts and models, including labour/structure-based organizing, mass protest, coalition-building, and political organizing.  
• 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. 6.5-month fixed term position at 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, including laptop.

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: February 2024 

Application Deadline: 12pm EST on January 3, 2024.

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 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 favourite campaign that 350.org has run in Canada, and why? How could we have improved, expanded, or scaled its impact?  
4. Tell us about a training or capacity building project 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.
• 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.”