Do you want to be a member mobilizer as we build bargaining power in 2026?
Apply to be an OPS Unified mobilizer!
Applications close Monday, July 13th, 2026, at 12pm.
Principal Duties
- Coordinate member mobilization in support of the bargaining team.
- Engage, inspire, and organize members widely across OPS Unified.
- Comfortable with making phone calls
- Mobilizers will be selected to work with a specific group of locals but the work is not limited to your region.
- Work with Local Executives to build and update comprehensive member lists and establish mobilizing committees.
- Sign up members to OPSEU/SEFPO membership portal.
- Update member portal information.
- Ensure Locals have emails lists and are updating them.
- Recruit and support leaders amongst the membership and keep them engaged and connected throughout the course of the campaign.
- Work with Local Executives to establish local mobilizing committees.
- Provide information guides, tools and support to help establish local mobilizing committees.
- Track and record campaign participation in digital databases.
- Building new relationships and deepening existing relationships with members and allies towards the strategic goals of the campaign.
- Share campaign messaging and materials.
- Adherence to the OPSEU/SEFPO Statement of Respect in all duties performed
- Promote union events.
- Encourage planning and participation in strategic member actions during the campaign.
- Monitor Unifier (leader) engagement and impact as well as emerging leaders (potential unifiers) who may want to be more involved.
Qualifications
Successful candidates must be:
- Members in good standing and currently working in OPS Unified.
- Firmly committed to the campaign to make OPS Unified bargaining a success.
- Self-directed and take initiative to undertake work.
- Flexible and dynamic with changing priorities to meet strategic needs.
- This includes the ability to flex working hours to ensure they can meet with members at evening events and outside of 9am-5pm working hours.
- Able to talk to members and engage them, even on complicated issues, by phone, in person, or digitally.
- Able to manage competing interests while focusing on the strategic objectives of the campaign.
- Able to work in a team environment.
- Comfortable reporting their progress both in a group setting and individually with staff.
Technological Tools and Competencies
- Basic competency in Microsoft Office.
- Experience generating content over one or more social media channels
- Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, TikTok, SnapChat, etc.
- Ability to utilize digital communications platforms to engage with members
- Signal, Zoom, Microsoft Teams etc.
- Willingness to be trained on Action Builder as the primary campaign software, and other digital tools as required
Skills Learning Opportunities
- Digital Campaigning.
- Mobilizers will be trained and supported on campaign databases, social media best practices, and campaign messaging.
- Organizing for Power (O4P) and Building Skills for Change
- Mobilizers will be onboarded using elements of the O4P model developed by Jane McAlevey as well as the Building Skills for Change modules developed by the Institute for Change Leaders. OPSEU/SEFPO Campaigns Organizing and Communications
- Mobilizers will work with staff from the Political Action and Education Department to deepen their understanding of member organizing and goals of engagement.
Duration
- This leave will be considered a Union Leave with the Employer.
- Union Leave will;
- Begin on or as close to August 1, 2026, as possible*
- Conclude on or before December 18, 2026;
- Only be taken for work done on this campaign (Exclusions: local work like steward meetings, local executive work, Divisional Executive, etc.).
*Start date subject to change if campaign timeline needs to be adjusted.
Campaign Compensation
- More detailed information will be provided to successful candidates.
- All regular earnings will be covered by OPSEU/SEFPO subject to your collective agreement provisions and employer.
- Pre-approved expenses will be covered for successful candidates in the following categories subject to approval by Political Action and Education Department (PAED):
- Transportation;
- Meals;
- Overnight accommodation.