Leeds Community Organiser at ACORN

This role has a specific focus on organising with women across Leeds. As such, it is a requirement that applicants for this position are women.

As an Organiser with ACORN, you will be responsible for recruiting, developing and supporting members to take action on issues affecting them and the communities they come from. 

This could mean stopping evictions, winning housing repairs or safe accommodation for our members, or fighting for fair treatment at work.

Your daily work will involve:

• recruiting individual ACORN members, particularly women, through in person outreach, online interaction and other means (door-knocking, street stalls and other community outreach takes up around half of our organisers’ time)
• evaluating whether ACORN can support someone (e.g. a person whose landlord is refusing to make repairs), and empower them to take action to confront injustice, including building a team of ACORN members to stand up for each other
• building new and maintaining existing ACORN groups and teams, including through organising drives
• identifying and taking action on issues that affect our members and their communities, particularly those affecting women
• and much more!