Role
Living Rent is hiring a full-time community organiser in Aberdeen to support members organise in their neighbourhoods to challenge the issues they face and to fight for better housing and a system that works for the common good. The role entails outreach (stalls, door knocking), recruiting members, and supporting members to organise meetings, take responsibilities locally, build democratic neighbourhood branches and take part in city-wide and national structures.
In neighbourhoods, the organiser will support members to research their issues, select relevant campaigns, define achievable wins, organise direct actions and support members in negotiations with relevant targets including private/social landlords, private companies, and the local municipality. You will aim to involve more people in Living Rent at the local and national level, in order to build power in our communities and tenants’ power across Scotland.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about building real people power and excited about the chance to work for a young, diverse and member-run organisation. Experience in recruitment, training delivery, community education or campaigns is welcome; however, enthusiasm, willingness to learn, and commitment to social justice are more important than previous experience as training will be provided. This role may suit someone with experience in sales, street fundraising or other customer/public facing work, who wishes to move into organising.
Application Process:
1. Save the completed application form as a Word document.
2. Send it to recruitment@livingrent.org with the subject matter: ‘NAME_Aberdeen_Organiser’ by Sunday the 12th of January at 8pm. Late applications will not be considered.
3. Once you have submitted your application, please complete the equal opportunities monitoring form.
Please note, successful candidates will be invited to interview online on the 15th of January. The interview process will take place over two stages. We will hold a first stage of online interviews on the 15th of January which is mandatory to be considered for the position, where we will provide applicants with an introduction to the organisation, hands-on collective exercises, and an interview. Short-listed candidates will be asked to a second stage hands-on evaluation and doorknocking session which will take place on the week of the 20th or 27th of January.
About Living Rent:
Living Rent is Scotland’s Tenants and Community Union. We are people campaigning for better rights for tenants, protections against rent increases, evictions, and poor-quality housing and we represent and defend our members when they are having housing problems or problems in our community. We are not affiliated to any political party and only answer to our members.
By building power and challenging decision-makers collectively, we not only win for our members but we also fight for a housing and political system that puts people before profit. We believe in the collective power of members to fight for their rights together and use diverse tactics – including direct action – to achieve this. Living Rent is affiliated to ACORN International and the International Union of Tenants. We work closely with ACORN England and Wales.
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