We’ve already won major housing reform such as the private tenancy act, improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of tenants in Scotland. Alongside this, we have fought and won countless local campaigns to win justice for our members, whilst our recent work to support members during the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated our ability to respond to changing circumstances.

We are looking for someone with previous experience of organising, who can demonstrate how they have grown an organisation and who has ideas for how they could support Living Rent build more power for working-class residents in Scotland. This post involves directly line managing the staff team, composed of field organisers and a member defence coordinator, training and mentoring them, liaising with the National Committee to implement Living Rent’s organisational goals, ensuring Living Rent’s financial health and developing a national organising strategy for Living Rent.

This post can be based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow with regular travel between the two cities expected and a degree of flexibility in working hours required.

Given the lasting impacts of the pandemic, an organised working-class is ever more needed. As a small and young organisation, you could have a massive impact of building the future tenants’ movement in Scotland and establishing it as a beacon for community organising around the world.

About Living Rent

Living Rent is Scotland’s Tenants’ Union. We seek to unite and represent all tenants whether you rent from the private or social sector. We are not affiliated to any political party and only answer to our members. We are ordinary people campaigning for better rights for tenants, protections against rent increases, evictions and poor-quality housing and we represent and defend our members when they are having housing problems.

By building tenant power and challenging landlords collectively, we not only win for our members but we also fight for a housing and political system that puts people before profit. We believe in the collective power of tenants to come together to fight for their rights, and use diverse tactics – including direct action when necessary – to achieve this.

Living Rent is affiliated to ACORN International and the International Union of Tenants.

To apply

1.Send a CV and cover letter, providing relevant experiences referring toJob description and person specification

2.Submit via email to [email protected] with the heading ‘Job application: National Organiser NAME’

3.Once you have submitted your application, please complete the equal opportunity monitoring form

1. Send a CV and cover letter, providing relevant experiences referring to Job description and person specification

2. Submit via email to [email protected] with the heading ‘Job application: National Organiser NAME’

3. Once you have submitted your application, please complete the equal opportunity monitoring form

Deadline, Shortlisting & Assessment

The deadline for applications is 5pm on 25th of September 2020. Late applications will not be considered. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]

Shortlisting will commence the week beginning 28st of September.

Assessment: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an assessment day (week commencing 5th of October), involving a 1 hour interview. Currently due to the Government’s social distancing advice we are conducting assessments over Zoom video call. Shortlisted candidates will then be tasked with several practical exercises

Documents:

• Job Description and Person Specification
• Equalities monitoring form