[Viva] FW: [VMC-ORG] The VMC is hiring! Contract Position: Winter Member Drive

[Tami S.]

From: dawn paley [mailto:dawnpaley at gmail.com] 
Sent: October-04-10 11:08 AM
To: orn-media; noiinetwork
Subject: [VMC-ORG] The VMC is hiring! Contract Position: Winter Member Drive

 

Please forward widely! Application deadline Friday, October 8.

 

Contract Position with the Vancouver Media Co-op: Winter Member Drive

The Vancouver Media Co-op is looking for a dynamic individual with a track
record in building membership based organizations, experience in recruitment
drives, and a commitment to social justice and independent media to help us
with our winter Member Drive. The Vancouver Media Co-op operates on a
sustainer base, and this outreach position is a six week contract set up to
build our sustainer base and ensure that we're looking after our members.
Sustainers are individuals who donate a set amount each month ($5-$100) to
the co-operative.

The Goal:

- We are aiming to have 30 new sustainers in Vancouver giving an average of
$20 per month by December 10. The Dominion Newspaper Co-op, our parent
organization, currently has 300 sustainers giving between $5 and $100/month.
The VMC currently has about 25 sustaining members.

Activities:

- Gain a familiarity with the activities and philosophy of the Media Co-op
- Build on a Vancouver-oriented strategy for recruiting sustaining members
- Work with the Dominion/Media Co-op's National membership outreach
coordinator to contact existing donors in the Vancouver area
- Build a list of potential donors and supportive local groups

- Call prospective supporters and pitch, or arrange meetings with these
folks
- Make a pitch for these people to become sustaining members of the
Vancouver Media Co-op
- Sign up new sustainers


What the VMC/Dominion will supply:

- Outreach material (pamphlets, sign-up sheets etc)

- Ongoing, solid coverage of grassroots organizing in Vancouver

- A breakdown of how we'll use the sustainer money, and our plan for
continuing to create local, independent news

- Advice and support over the phone with folks who have done sustainer
campaigns in the past

- Subscriptions to the Dominion and T-shirts to folks who decide to become
sustaining members

Remuneration: $2400 for approximately 120 hours of work from November 1 to
December 10. The individual will be asked to work 20 hours per week during
the six week contract. 


How we imagine it working:

The individual will contact (by phone, email, facebook or in person)
existing supporters in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, and identify
potentially supportive groups and individuals. Sustainers can be signed up
over the phone, or small evening or lunch-time meetings can be arranged, at
a workplace, office, or otherwise where the individual, accompanied whenever
possible by another member of the Vancouver Media Co-op, will deliver a
brief (<20 minute) pitch, asking for their financial support. The VMC
currently does not have an office so the individual selected for the
position will be required to work from their home or from their own office
space. The VMC will be able to provide reimbursement for printing and
mailing costs.


To Apply:

In the application, please include a short description of how you would
propose to go about signing up 30 new sustainers to the VMC.  Send a cover
letter that includes your proposal for signing up sustainers, and resumé
(including at least 3 references) with the subject line "VMC Winter Member
Drive" to dawn at mediacoop.ca by Friday, October 8th. Prospective candidates
will be contacted for an interview on or before October 15th. The position
starts November 1. Please note that we are seeking to hire an individual
based in Vancouver or the surrounding area.


http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca <http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/> 

 

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