Acorn Organizing School - Ottawa, Canada - Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
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Is social justice and fighting for equality 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? Are you looking for an opportunity to enhance your skills as a new, young professional? OR are you looking to distinguish yourself as a professional organizer with a hands-on, action-oriented training program?


Well then the ACORN Organizing School is the fit for you At the ACORN Organizing School you'll have the opportunity to develop your skills while gaining a unique understanding about current social and political issues that impact low and moderate income people.

Organizer Apprentices participating in the ACORN Organizing School have the opportunity to develop a wide range of skills including:
teamwork, problem solving, communication, time management, critical thinking, and adaptability. All the while working in a fun, fast-paced environment with like-minded co-workers.


Expectation is that apprentices will become full-time, permanent Community Organizers with Ottawa & Gatineau ACORN after completing the training program outlined below.


At the ACORN Organizing School you will learn:

  • How to Build Local Groups Ready to Fight for Change
  • How to Organize Community Meetings
  • How to Plan Direct Actions
  • How to Develop Local Campaigns
  • Leadership Development
  • Self Financing Activities
  • Corporate Research
  • Communications & Media Relations
  • And MORE

Logistics:


  • 12 month paid training program as an Organizer Apprentice in the nation's capital Salary, benefits and hours detailed below.
  • Stay with a billet family arranged by ACORN (free accommodations)
  • Opportunity for fulltime permanent employment with Ottawa ACORN after successful completion of the ACORN Organizing School

What is ACORN?


ACORN Canada, the nationwide community union of low-to-moderate income people, is expanding our organizing in Ottawa & Gatineau with our ACORN Organizing School.

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.

Our members' current campaign priorities include:

APPLY WITH COVER LETTER MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO OTTAWA

  • 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.
  • Organizing meetings, press conferences, townhalls, protests, sitin's and other direct actions
  • Work with our Head Organizer on a day to day basis to learn the basics of ACORN's organizing methods and techniques.
  • 42 hours per week working in afternoons and evenings between 129pm. Salary with benefits, transit/phone reimbursements, sick days and paid vacation.
  • Fundraising and asking for money is a fundamental part of an organizer's job.

We are structured like a union:
ACORN members pay membership dues.

While this is not the entire job, it's fundamental that organizers sign up members and can ask for dues and donations.


  • Willing and able to travel to training, and staff meetings (some outside of Canada). Usually 3 times a year.

COVID has drastically changed our travel:


  • Dealing with multiple tasks in the same day flexibility and resilience are keys to success.
  • Representing the organization in the neighbourhoods, as well as with our leadership at external meetings or events (allies or targets).

APPLY WITH COVER LETTER MUST BE WILLING TO RELOCATE TO OTTAWA

Salary:
$38,910.00-$44,230.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Casual dress
  • Commuter benefits
  • Dental care
  • Extended health care
  • Life insurance
  • Onsite parking
  • Paid time off
  • RRSP match
  • Vision care
Schedule: 8 hour shift


COVID-19 considerations:
We require organizers to be fully vaccinated. Outreach is masked and
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