OPS Unified Mobilizer Application

OPS Unified Mobilizer Application

  • January 9, 2025 - 1:16 pm
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Do you want to be a member mobilizer in the most important round of bargaining for OPS Unified?

Apply to be a mobilizer!

Applications closed Friday, January 24.

Principal Duties

  • Engage, inspire, and organize members widely across OPS Unified
    • Comfortable and able to make phone calls for hours at a time
  • Comfortable having in-person conversations Mobilizers will be selected to work primarily in one region, but the work is not limited to that region
    • Travel across regions may be required in order to directly meet with members
  • Work with Local Executives to build and update comprehensive member lists
    • 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
  • 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 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
  • Successful candidates must be firmly committed to the campaign to make OPS Unified bargaining a success
  • Successful candidates must be self-directed and take initiative to undertake work
  • Successful candidates will be flexible and dynamic with changing priorities to meet strategic needs
  • Successful candidates will not be afraid to talk to members and engage them, even on complicated issues, by phone, in person, or digitally
  • Successful candidates are able to manage competing interests while focusing on the strategic objectives of the campaign
  • Successful candidates will work in a team environment
  • Successful candidates must be comfortable reporting their progress both in a group setting and individually with staff

Successful candidates will engage adeptly with members, non-members, and the public on campaign initiatives

Technological Tools and Competencies

  • Microsoft Office (Basic competency required)
  • Social media (Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, TikTok, SnapChat, etc.) (Experience with one or several of these is required)
  • Digital Meetings – Zoom, Microsoft Teams
  • Action Builder (Training to be provided; required campaign software)
  • Other digital tools (Training to be provided)

Skills Learning Opportunities

  • Digital Campaigning
    • Including databases, social media, and messaging
  • Organizing for Power (O4P)
    • Elements of the O4P model developed by Jane McAlevey
  • Building Skills for Change
    • Elements of the modules for organizing developed by the Institute for Change Leaders, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Campaigns Organizing and Communications
    • Learning how the Political Action and Education Department (PAED) engages in deep internal member organizing work while providing engagement for wider public participation

Duration

  • Union Leaves will begin on or as close to March 3. 2025 as possible*
  • Union Leaves will be for a period of 3 months with potential for (at least one) extension renewal
  • Union Leaves will be for complete weeks of work wherever possible
  • Union Leaves will only be taken for work done on this campaign (Exclusions: local work like steward meetings, local executive work, Divisional Executive, bargaining duties 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
  • 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