Canada Regional Organizer
About the Canada Regional Organizer position
We’re looking for an experienced campaigner to help mobilize 350.org tar sands campaigns. This person will be the Canadian coordinator of 350.orgs tar sands campaign, committed to empowering others and helping to build a grassroots movement that will oppose the reckless expansion of tar sands mining and distribution of tar sands oil.
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.
Responsibilities
Required skills and experiences
Desirable (but not required) skills and experiences
Position Type: full time
Application Deadline: rolling until hired
Start Date: March, 2014 (flexible)
Compensation: competitive compensation based on experience
Location: this position can be located anywhere in Canada
Application information
To apply for this position, please send your resume and letter of interest to jobs@350.org, with ‘Canada Tar Sands Campaigner’ in the subject line. We hope to begin the interview process by February 20th, but this position is open until filled.
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350.org wants to be an inclusive and collaborative group of people who bring a variety of approaches to the work we do. We’re committed to the principles of justice, and we try to build a workplace where everyone’s treated fairly and enjoys working together. We value new perspectives, ideas of all sorts, and different ways of working. Diverse perspectives and experiences improve the way 350.org carries out its work – including what we decide to work on and how creatively/effectively we do that. We do our best to make staff positions accessible to women, people of of any ethnic background, people of any age, Indigenous people, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer people, disabled people, and other under-represented communities in our kind of organisations – including communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice.
If you have suggestions for us on how to do this better, we really value your input and strongly encourage you to write to us at jobs@350.org with the subject line ‘Hiring Feedback’.