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About the Role
The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is seeking to hire a Labour Relations Officer (Member Mobilizer) to join our Government Relations and Mobilizing Team. This role supports comprehensive mobilizing campaign strategies, focusing on organizing, engaging, activating, and empowering nurses and health-care professionals. The ideal candidate will build capacity and power in support of ONA’s broader government relations and communications strategy.
Responsibilities
- Train and engage members about the value of the union, working together to build power, advocacy beyond the workplace and strategies for change.
- Identify, organize and empower workplace leaders to mobilize and engage members for actions, events and activities.
- Support member requests for actions and coordinate with staff on the communications and government relations team.
- Work closely with members and leaders at the bargaining unit level on the ground in a concerted effort to train, engage and activate using internal organizing tools, techniques and strategies.
- Engage members with the use of technology as a tool for outreach and mobilization, such as Action Network and texting, including interactions via social media.
- Develop comprehensive campaign plans and oversee their implementation.
- Develop strategies, timelines and tactics to support local actions, events, and activities, including organizing phone banks and phone zaps to mobilize ONA members.
- Introduce techniques and strategies to maintain member contact information for local mobilization.
- Coach, mentor and support members to achieve local goals, structure tests and agreed outcomes.
- Support efforts to develop working relations with local external groups, coalitions and other unions.
- Analyze, evaluate and report on member engagement, capacity building and activities.
- Provide support for bargaining units taking job action and for activities or actions during mediation and conciliation.
- Prepare content for reports to the Board of Directors and for member meetings.
Requirements
- University Degree in Social or Political Sciences, Public Relations, Public Policy or any related fields.
- Five years related organizing and campaigns experience required.
- A solid grounding and understanding of the theory of power in a union context and how to build power.
- Knowledge and demonstrated experience with various core organizing methods.
- Ability to work collaboratively and constructively with a solutions-based approach.
- Experience with issues related to health care, labour relations, and unions within the Ontario political environment.
- Experience in writing, editing and producing organizing materials.
- Experience with programs such as Action Network and texting platforms.
- Knowledge of health-care issues.
- Ability to work on a flexible schedule including some evening/weekend work, especially around intense periods of workplace campaigning, provincial bargaining or policy changes, as well as during election campaigns.
- Must be able to travel.
- Possess a valid driver’s license.
- Have access to an automobile for business use.
- Ability to travel across Ontario or to other areas outside of Ontario.
Skills
- Organizing
- Campaign strategies
- Member engagement
- Activating members
- Empowering members
- Government relations
- Communications
- Technology for outreach and mobilization (Action Network, texting, social media)
- Campaign planning
- Phone banking
- Phone zaps
- Member contact management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Writing
- Editing
- Producing organizing materials
Location
- Toronto, ON Canada
Work Type
- Permanent Full-time
Experience Level
- Five years related organizing and campaigns experience
Education Level
- University Degree in Social or Political Sciences, Public Relations, Public Policy or any related fields
Salary/Compensations
- $115,232.38 (start)
Benefits
- Benefits and insurance
About the Company
- The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is Canada’s largest nurses’ union.
- We are powered by our members — 68,000 nurses and health-care professionals, and 18,000 nursing student affiliates — who provide care in hospitals, long-term care, public health, the community, clinics and industry.
- Our mission is to defend the rights of and advocate for nurses and health-care professionals who care for the health of Ontarians.
- We empower members and fight against unfair and unsafe treatment, negotiate and enforce our contracts, offer benefits and insurance, provide tailored education and development opportunities and much more.
- We confront governments, administrations and other policymakers head on to fight for high-quality public health care.
Equal Opportunity
- The Ontario Nurses’ Association is committed to employment equity within its staff.
- Applications are encouraged from equity-deserving groups including individuals of Indigenous descent, Racialized individuals, individuals with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQI persons.
- We also provide accessible employment practices that are in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (‘AODA’).
- If you require accommodation for a disability during any stage of the recruitment process, please notify Human Resources at HumanResources@ona.org.