Job Posting: Campaign Researcher

UNITE HERE Local 40 is recruiting a full-time Campaign Researcher to conduct research, develop strategy, and move campaigns to win justice for BC’s hospitality workers.

UNITE HERE Local 40 is B.C.’s hospitality union and is leading the fight to organize the unorganized and at the forefront of campaigns for workers’ rights and quality jobs. We represent thousands of hospitality workers working in hotels, foodservice, remote resource camps, airports, and other venues across the province. We have a diverse membership that includes workers from many immigrant communities, and the majority of our members are women. Together, we are building a movement to empower working people to achieve greater power and opportunity.

Campaign researchers work closely with organizing staff and expected to work long and irregular hours to support campaigns.

Responsibilities include:

• Conduct company, industry and real estate research using a wide variety of databases and online sources, as well as field work.
• Develop and carry out campaign strategies and tactics.
• Develop analyses and adapt them for various audiences (e.g., leadership & staff, workers, investors, political & regulatory bodies, and the public).
• Identify and analyze new development projects in our industries and engage with relevant stakeholders.
• Work directly with members to support them on workplace issues.
• Communicate with a wide variety of players including community organizations, industry representatives, customers, policy makers, journalists and elected officials.
• Work with UNITE HERE members, organizers, staff, allies and elected leaders to move campaigns forward through organizing, leading actions, and doing political work, as needed.

Qualifications include:

• Activist experience and demonstrated commitment to fighting for workers’ rights.
• BA degree and relevant research and/or organizing experience (e.g., labour, political, or community)
• Strong analytical skills, writing, computer, and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to work long and sometimes irregular hours; travel will be required.
• Proficient with database and word processing software
• Ability to take initiative, learn quickly, work well on a team, and handle competing priorities with deadlines.
• Driver’s license

UNITE HERE Campaign Researchers have worked in the past as community and union organizers, journalists, urban planners, teachers, and researchers elsewhere.

Please be prepared to include in your application:

• Cover letter—Please be sure to let us know why you’re motivated to fight for workers’ rights and share any experience you have with hospitality industry or service sector work.
• Resume
• Writing sample
• Three references—preferably individuals who have supervised your work.

Please send application materials to Michelle Travis at  [email protected]. Only candidates meeting all requirements will be contacted for interviews.