Competition #: 2025-2
Posting date: February 4, 2025
Closing date: February 26, 2025
Duration: Indeterminate
Classification level: 5
Salary: $107,274 - $132,396 (under review)
Number of positions: 2
Language requirements: Bilingual
Status: Unionized
About the Association
The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) is a dynamic and progressive union representing over 25,000 professional employees in the federal public sector. At CAPE, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for all our members.
Our organization offers a:
Progressive work environment
Flexible Work Model & Remote work opportunities
Seamless transition for public servants
Great work-life balance
Position Summary
Under the direction of the Senior Advisor, President’s office, the Organizer plays a crucial role in boosting and maintaining active membership at all levels of the association, from local leadership to rank-and-file members. They will also work on enhancing members’ sense of ownership of their association and building members’ abilities to lead change through their involvement in their union. Under the guidance of the Lead Organizer and Advisor, the Organizer is responsible for implementing the union’s transition to an “organizing model” on a local and workplace level. Specifically, they recruit member-organizers, build local organizing committees, and guide members on how to map their workplaces and to systematically build capacity to take collective action on the job and in their communities.
The Organizer creates campaign materials and resources, facilitates organizing-related training, develops leaders and coordinates their assigned network of member-organizers. They develop campaign metrics and regularly report on progress to the Lead Organizer and Advisor and the Senior Advisor and participate in campaign planning. They work collaboratively and coordinate with other divisions to ensure that member-organizers receive the various forms of support they need.
Requirements
Education & Experience
Undergraduate degree in the Social Sciences, Human Resources, Labour Relations, or a related discipline, combined with experience as a Union Organizer or campaign lead.
5-7 years of experience in union or community organizing, with expertise related to the scope of work undertaken by CAPE.
Experience with organizing software, data analysis and database management.
Experience working in an office in a fast-paced environment
Note: Equivalent combinations of education and/or experience are considered.
Key responsibilities
- Under the guidance of the Lead Organizer and the direction of the Senior Advisor, implements a strategic organizing action plan to build and expand CAPE’s network of leaders and organizers.
- Develops local and department level indicators, timelines, and deliverables required to carry out the national strategic organizing plan.
- Develops plans with local organizing committees and organizers and identifies tactics and tools to support the network’s organizers and leaders.
- Coaches' member organizers to map their workplace, build committees, and to collectively address specific workplace issues and concerns.
- Creates campaign materials, organizing resources, and facilitates trainings
- Develops a plan to build capacity for identified and/or recruited members of the organizing network to grow and nurture their respective network and base.
- Using data from membership database and other tools, including past and future research conducted by CAPE, assesses challenges and opportunities for the creation of a healthy and thriving network of organizers and leaders.
- Monitors membership engagement leveraging membership database and other tools, keeping accurate records of, and reporting on, member engagement, feedback, and participation to inform future network mobilization strategies and decision-making.
- Use digital organizing tools to support all activities (ex. databases, Action Network, Action Builder, New Mode, Zoom, MS Teams).
- Deploys digital organizing tools within locals and the broad membership.
- Collaborates with the Local Liaison Officer on organizing activities and initiatives for local leadership.
- Follows accessibility best practices and ensures mobilization strategies are developed through a diversity, equity and inclusion lens, and meet official languages requirements.
- Participates in multi-disciplinary teams assigned to special initiatives and work collaboratively with employees in other divisions.
Other skills and abilities
Strong skills in communicating persuasively but with diplomacy, in writing and orally, specialized information.
Ability to vulgarize complex issues, negotiate and persuade.
Expert skill in writing, presenting, and public speaking are required to communicated information tactfully, respectfully and effectively in communicating is required to support and coordinate various activities for CAPE’s local leadership
Political acumen, analytical thinking, effective problem-solving abilities.
Can work without supervision, with tight deadlines and under pressure.
Condition of employment
Must meet the language requirement of the position.
Additional Information
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of language proficiency. If no bilingual candidate meets the job requirements, unilingual candidates may be considered.
If you are Indigenous such as First Nations, Inuit or Métis, a person within an equity-deserving groups, or a person of color, we encourage you to self-declare in this recruitment process. This self-declaration information may be factored into selection decisions and to address CAPE’s commitment to increase representation for these groups.
CAPE is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please contact rh-hr@acep-cape.ca. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.
An eligibility list of applicants may be established from this process to staff similar positions within CAPE.
Acknowledgment of receipt of applications will not be sent; we will contact applicants when the screening and interview phases are completed.
The recruitment committee reserves all rights to use any methods that they deem appropriate to evaluate the applicants.Communication for this process will be sent via email. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that accurate contact information is provided and updated as required and to update their personal information when it changes. Applicants who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email).
Time-sensitive correspondence may be transmitted via email, and it will be the applicant's responsibility to check their email regularly. Failure to respond to communications may result in elimination from this process.
CAPE may decide to use top-down or random selection or any other additional qualification to determine the number of applicants who will be considered for the next stage of the evaluation.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit their resume, a cover letter outlining their interest in the position and relevant qualifications and contact information for two professional references to rh-hr@acep-cape.ca by February 26, 2025.
We thank all applicants for their interest in this position.
