Digital organizing, Best practices

Position: Digital Organizer
Organization: Neighbours United
Location: fully remote, occasional travel for meetings or retreats may be required

We are hiring a Part Time Digital Organizer to support Neighbours United’s campaigns across the country.

Key Info:

• Application Closing Date: November 15th, 2026
• Reports to: Director of Communications and Digital Organizing
• Status: Part-Time (20hrs/week)
• Location: Fully remote - preference given to applicants in AB/BC/NL
• Compensation: $56,500-58,500 FTE (depending on experience)

About the Role

The Digital Organizer ensures Neighbours United’s digital organizing practices are effective, strategic, and aligned with campaign priorities. This role focuses on maintaining essential systems, leading prioritized improvements, and building tools that increase data visibility and organizational effectiveness.

As a 20-hour/week position, this role prioritizes high-impact systems work over reactive troubleshooting.

You Will contribute to:

Data Management

• Maintaining and demonstrating the use of Neighbours United’s core CRM and engagement systems (e.g., database hygiene, core automations, reporting structures)
• Recurring system reviews to ensure tools remain functional and aligned with campaign goals
• Documenting workflows to ensure clarity and continuity

Digital management focuses on core system maintenance, dissemination to campaign staff, and recurring reviews. This role is not responsible for real-time troubleshooting of individual staff errors or ad hoc tech requests.

Digital Organizing Support

• Supporting an annual evaluation of NU’s tech ecosystem
• Identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and areas of opportunity
• Working with campaign teams to implement digital tools and best practices into their campaigns. Implement improvements based on capacity and quarterly goals
• Building staff competency in digital tools through training and capacity building across all teams

Digital Organizing Implementation

• Develop/maintain a familiarity with the tools used for digital organizing at NU as well as deep functional knowledge of the platforms NU uses.
• Supporting campaign teams in building capacity for digital organizing best practices
• Cultivating a testing-always mentality for digital organizing tactics.
• Filling in if needed to build digital organizing components for campaigns during high work volume times.
• Supporting staff in learning in platforms to develop their independent skills

Scope Note: The role supports staff self-sufficiency through targeted training rather than ongoing one-on-one training for all team members.

Collaboration & Organizational Contribution

• Participating in planning conversations to ensure data systems align with campaign strategy
• Providing data insights for reporting, fundraising, or board updates as requested
• Upholding and modeling Neighbours United’s mission and values

You Should Apply If You Are:

• Mission-aligned and deeply motivated by helping everyday people have a stronger voice in decisions that affect the people and places they love
• Knowledgeable and/or interested in digital organizing tools and practices
• Caring and community-minded, knowing how to listen deeply to local perspectives and excited to coach people to step into their own power
• You’re comfortable being the only staff person in the room. You don’t need a big team to get things done
• A communicator who interacts with clarity, empathy, and professionalism across all audiences
• Campaign-minded, ideally with experience volunteering on a campaign, organizing locally, or navigating policy issues (a strong asset, though transferable community leadership counts too!)
• Experienced in developing volunteers into leaders who take on real responsibility
• Able to take independent ownership of your work, managing your time effectively and driving projects forward in a remote work setting without needing step-by-step supervision
• Aligned with Neighbours United’s values: fairness, transparency, and building community first

We know great digital organizers come from all kinds of backgrounds. If you don’t check every box above but you know how to build real relationships and grow people into leaders, we want to hear from you.

Compensation and Benefits:

Neighbours United is a Living Wage Employer. Alongside important and purpose-driven work in a supportive environment, we offer the following benefits:

• 10 paid sick days, pro-rated
• 6 weeks of paid time off, including four weeks vacation, and paid time off during our August and January office closures, pro-rated
• (If needed) technology hardware provided
• Paid statutory holidays for staff who have worked 15 of the previous 30 days, including Boxing Day and Easter Monday, with additional consideration for days of cultural or religious significance
• Paid time for Leadership Training, for Organizational Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Training, and other professional development
• Extended health benefits
• Annual raises for cost of living and performance

About Neighbours United

Neighbours United is a community-driven charity that brings people together in rural, small, and suburban areas to support policies that protect the people and places we love. Through strategic campaigns using engagement organizing, deep canvassing, and communications, we are moving the needle in places often left out of progressive solutions. By centering personal stories we broaden public support beyond the usual environmental base.

We focus on areas and audiences that are frequently written off as unreachable. We invest in real conversations that matter to people.

We are known for our deep canvassing based approach: listening, leading with personal stories, and creating space for people to wrestle with real tensions. Rather than broadcasting messages, we create conversations that allow people to reflect, connect, and act.

How To Apply

Send a letter answering the question “If you can’t organize in-person how would you create a digital-only campaign to engage a list of petition signers?” along with your CV to: Drew@neighboursunited.org

Use the subject line: Digital Organizer Application – Last Name

Please name your files with your first and last name (e.g., Drew Thomas – Resume) and submit in PDF format.

We welcome applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black People, People of Colour, women, youth, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ2SAI+ communities, new immigrants, refugees, and members of other equity-seeking groups.

We thank all who apply. We will read each submission, and we will respond to all serious candidates and advise them as to their status.

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