Recruitment
Want to help bring a diverse body of youth from every coast and corner of this country to Power Shift Canada 2009? Want to work alongside an amazing team of people across the nation? Join our recruitment team! …and scroll down for downloadable resources to help you out!
Email Maggie at recruitment@powershiftcanada.org to sign up! If you are an organization who would like to partner with us, please email Kimia at kimia@ourclimate.ca.
We are committed to bringing together a diverse group of youth, with representation from every province and territory and from many different cultures and backgrounds, including First Nations, immigrant/newcomer communities, the labour movement, and rural communities.
Top 5 Tips for Saving Money
1. Billet in Ottawa. Call up your relatives, friends, and friends of friends in Ottawa! Don’t know anyone in Ottawa? Request a spot in someone’s home here.
2. Register NOW before October 11th! (Discounted rate this week!)
3. Stay at Les Suites (hotel) where we have a discount rate (book by October 14th!). This has access to a kitchen, so you can save in Ottawa by cooking your own food!
4. Apply for a Power Shift scholarship by October 9th (this Friday!).
Top 5 Tips for Recruitment
1. Pass on the PowerPoint slide (download below) to all your profs / teachers to get into all classrooms!
2. Send out an email to all your friends and networks (forward the Sponsor-A-Youth email too! let us know if you would like us to email this to you…).
3. Poster your campus like crazy! With 2 weeks to go, campuses are the best place to recruit youth!
4. Leave poster (attached) and info on transportation and fundraising being organized in your community with environmental and social justice clubs on campus (e.g. “We’re going to Power Shift! There are 10 spots left on the bus. Cost = x per participant. Contact us at …)
5. Set up a booth somewhere on campus or in another area with a lot of young people traffic! Take people’s photos for the Green Jobs photo rally (show them the photos at www.powershiftcanada.org!) in front of a laptop with the Power Shift Canada home page. Have lots of Power Shift Canada materials and visuals on hand! If you have internet, set up live registration!
Resources
PSC Postcard Flyer – Fill this out and pass it along.
Recruitement Guide – Web Version – your introduction to Power Shift Canada and tons of resources to help you get other young people in your area involved!
Power Shift Canada Campaign Guide FINAL – tons of resources, including a week-by-week plan for the 6 weeks leading up to Power Shift Canada!
Power Shift Canada Media Guide – how to engage your community through the media, including sample press releases and media advisories, tips for giving interviews to the media, etc.
Power Shift Canada Poster
Poster en francais
NOTE: Be careful where you poster! We’ve had a couple of emails requesting that posters are removed from private property. Please be careful to observe rules around postering. If you want to poster onhydro poles, make sure to use tape instead of staples, as the hydro companies complain about buildup of staples over the years.
Power Shift Canada Leaflet – 4 per page
Local Recruitment Team Campaign Plan – please send in by Sept 1st (Word doc)
Local Recruitment Team Campaign Plan – please send in by Sept 1st (PDF)
An outline to help your local team plan for organizing around Power Shift Canada in your community!
PSC-PowerPointSlide – email to your professors, local council, NGOs, etc to see if they can include it at the beginning of their next class/meeting (if they use ppt presentations, of course)
Partner with Power Shift Canada – Partnership document to share with organizations, businesses, etc in your community
PowerShiftPartnerships email text
What is Power Shift Canada? Backgrounder
And from CYCC partner Taking It Global: Climate_Guide_to_Action_en
Email Maggie at recruitment@powershiftcanada.org if you have any questions about any of these files!
Recruitment Team Roles:
Organizational Partners
If you are part of an organization who could partner with Power Shift Canada to help us reach our goal of bringing youth from every corner of the country together for an amazing three days of learning, networking, and lobbying, we would love to hear from you. Visit our [Partners] page for information on how your organization can get involved through recruitment, workshops, our green job fair, in-kind donation, or sponsoring a youth to attend!
Regional Recruitment Support (High Commitment)
Goal: Coordinate Regional Recruitment efforts by supporting Recruitment Coordinators in your region, and ensure that recruitment and diversity targets are met by each recruitment coordinator in your region.
- Support your coordinators in recruiting a strong local outreach team
- Monitor regional registration and report regularly to national and local recruitment officers
- Help identify local fundraising opportunities
- Support decision-making and problem-solving through regular communication with national coordinators and participation in Outreach and Recruitment Working Group.
- Time commitment: 10 hours/wk
We are looking for one Regional Recruitment Support person for each province, with 2 each for Ontario and Quebec (1 City & Campus, 1 First Nations, northern, & rural).
Recruitment Coordinator: (Medium commitment)
Goal: Meet recruitment targets for your campus and/or community!
- Promote Power Shift far and wide on your campus/community
- Fundraise to cover transportation and accommodation costs for youth from your community
- Fill a bus (or other means of transportation) with PowerShifters from your school or community
- Build a team of 3-6 other leaders to help with Power Shift recruitment, fundraising, transportation, accommodations, media and other areas
- Host 1 meeting with your MP or Environmental Minister to start building a relationship before you even get to Ottawa!
- Time commitment: 5 hrs/wk between June – August; 8-10 hrs/wk from September – late October
We are looking for Recruitment Coordinators for the following areas, but would love to hear from you no matter your exact location!
Alberta: 11
Calgary, Edmonton, First Nations communities, Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray, rural northern communities, Tar Sands-impacted communities
British Columbia: 9
Encana-impacted communities, First Nations communities, Okanagan/Kootenays, Prince George, Prince Rupert, Vancouver/GVA, Vancouver Island
Manitoba: 6
Brandon, Churchill, First Nations communities, francophone communities, rural communities, Winnipeg
New Brunswick: 10
Acadian communities, First Nations communities, francophone communities, Fredericton, Moncton, Sackville, Saint John, resource-based/rural communities
Newfoundland: 9
Baie Vert, coastal communities, Corner Brook, First Nations communities, Labrador, rural interior, St John’s
Northwest Territories: 5
First Nations and rural communities, Fort Smith, Inuvik, Yellowknife
Nova Scotia: 9
Acadian communities, Antigonish, Cape Breton, Halifax/HRM, rural communities, Tar Sands-impacted/fisheries communities
Nunavut: 4
Cambridge Bay, Igloolik, Iqualuit, Rankin Inlet
Ontario: 23
First Nations communities, Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Oshawa, Ottawa, rural Ontario, Sarnia, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Timmins, Toronto/GTA, Windsor
Prince Edward Island: 3
Charlottetown, coastal communities, First Nations communities, interior communities
Quebec:15
First Nations communities, Gaspé, Montréal, northern communities, Nunavik, Quebec City, resource-based communities, Rimouski, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières
Saskatchewan: 5
First Nations communities, Prince Albert, Regina, rural north, Saskatoon
Yukon: 6
Dawson City, First Nations communities, rural communities, Whitehorse
Outreach Volunteers: (Low commitment)
Goal: To promote Power Shift Canada far and wide on your campus and community.
- Join Power Shift listserv and/or your local Recruitment Team’s listserv and circulate all promotional email blasts
- Follow-up with outreach efforts such as postering, photo petitions, and video contests; send information through your networks; helping out at fundraising events, etc.
- Time Commitment: 2hr/wk
No matter where you are, we need your outreach assistance! Start today by spreading the word online!
How to sign up!
- Email info@powershiftcanada.org to join the listserv and receive information about volunteering and other updates!
- If you are interested in one or more of the medium to high time commitment volunteer positions, send an email to Maggie at recruitment@powershiftcanada.org with the following information:
1. Your name and the area you live in
2. If you are a student, what school?
3. Which position you are interested in
4. A brief paragraph about why you are interested and tell us about any experience you have that you feel will be beneficial to the position (don’t worry if you don’t have tonnes of experience!)
- If you are part of an organization please email kimia@ourclimate.ca to find out more about partnership opportunities. Don’t forget to also check out our [Partners] page!
