Glasgow Community Organiser at Living Rent

Living Rent is hiring a full-time community organiser 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, 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. 

This post is accountable to Living Rent’s democratic structures and line managed by Living Rent’s Glasgow Head Organiser. 

We are looking for applicants who are 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. The roles may suit someone with experience in sales, street fundraising or other customer/public facing work, who wishes to move into organising. For the membership organiser, the role may also be adapted to have more desk work (phonebanking) depending on the needs of the candidate.