Advertised from 25 June 2025

Role

Living Rent is continuing to build membership and power across Scotland. And just now, we are hiring a community organiser in Edinburgh. This post aims to support members to build power in their community and win real changes locally and nationally. You will be working with the organisers across Scotland to build and support branches of Living Rent in Edinburgh.

Living Rent has gone from strength to strength in recent years and we continue to build power in communities up and down our country. We hope you will consider joining our growing team!

Living Rent is hiring a full-time community organiser to support members organise in their neighbourhoods to challenge the issues they face and to fight for better housing and a system that works for the common good. The role entails outreach (stalls, door knocking), recruiting members, and supporting members to organise meetings, take responsibilities locally, build democratic neighbourhood branches and take part in city-wide and national structures. 

In neighbourhoods, the organiser will support members to research their issues, select relevant campaigns, define achievable wins , organise direct actions and support members in negotiations with relevant targets including private/ social landlords, private companies, the local municipality. You will aim to involve more people in Living Rent at the local and national level, in order to build power in our communities and tenants’ power across Scotland. 

We are looking for someone who is passionate about building real people power and excited about the chance to work for a young, diverse and member-run organisation. Experience in recruitment, training delivery, community education or campaigns is welcome; however enthusiasm, willingness to learn and commitment to social justice are more important than previous experience as training will be provided. This role may suit someone with experience in sales, street fundraising or other customer/public facing work, who wishes to move into organising.

This post is accountable to Living Rent’s democratic structures and line managed by Living Rent’s Glasgow Head Organiser. Living Rent staff members primarily work Monday - Friday between 11am and 7pm, though the work will sometimes need to be done at other times of day, along with some weekends. Some unsocial hours are inevitable and flexibility is vital. 

We are a Living Wage employer. Support for the professional development and training of our staff members is a priority for Living Rent and we invest considerable time and resources to achieve this. We are committed to supporting all of our staff members to grow and learn through their role and to implement reasonable adjustments.

Living Rent is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Application notes

Application and deadlines:

• Download and fill in the application form referring to the person and job specification
• Save the completed application form as a word document
• Send it to recruitment@livingrent.org with the subject matter: ‘NAME_Edinburgh_Community_Organiser’ by the 24th of July 2025, 6pm. Late applications will not be considered.

Once you have submitted your application, please complete the equal opportunities monitoring form

Please note, the interview process will take place over two stages. We will hold a first stage of online interviews on the week of 28th of July which is mandatory to be considered for the position, where we will provide applicants with introduction to the organisation, hands-on collective exercises and an interview. 

Short-listed candidates will be asked to a second stage hands-on evaluation and doorknocking session which will take place on the week of the 4th of August

Application Deadline: Thursday 24th of July, 6pm. 

1st stage interviews: Week of 28th of July 2025

2nd stage interviews: Week of 4th of August 2025

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Living Rent at recruitment@livingrent.org

About Living Rent: Living Rent is Scotland’s Tenants and Community Union. We are 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 or problems in our community. We are not affiliated to any political party and only answer to our members. 

By building power and challenging decision-makers 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 members to fight for their rights together and use diverse tactics – including direct action – to achieve this. Living Rent is affiliated to ACORN International and the International Union of Tenants. We work closely with ACORN England and Wales.

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