HOUSE Canada - Community Outreach

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HOUSE
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
MJ
Executive Director
(2)
3
Preferred learners
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Academic experience
Categories
Volunteer organizing Community engagement Event planning Social sciences
Skills
effective communication infographics public consultation relationship management communication research data collection
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?
  • Work alongside the communications team to create effective communication strategies and tools for HOUSE and affiliates.
  • Create content for social media and print, including infographics, event posters, and photos that can reach and effectively communicate to a multitude of audiences.
  • Plan events for community engagement alongside other staff members. Engagement events will include public consultations, workshops, and community meals.
  • Create and manage relationships with community organizations, respond to partnership and collaboration opportunities, and provide consistent updates and information to these organizations.
  • Plan and help run community engagement opportunities, such as interviews, workshops, and consultations using a cultural competency framework.
  • Reach out to community members through door to door engagement (create a registry of landlords. data collection, research, etc).
What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
  • Work alongside the communications team to create effective communication strategies and tools for HOUSE and affiliates.
  • Create content for social media and print, including infographics, event posters, and photos that can reach and effectively communicate to a multitude of audiences.
  • Create and manage relationships with community organizations, respond to partnership and collaboration opportunities, and provide consistent updates and information to these organizations.
About the company

HOUSE stands for housing our university students equitably. we are an incorporated non-profit organization, set up by students, dedicated to developing student-controlled, permanently affordable accommodations across ontario and canada. we research, develop, and advocate for affordable and community-oriented student housing that benefits individuals and communities. we develop expertise unique to ontario while being inspired by best practices around the world.
we believe in social entrepreneurship and innovation, and in learning from the student-owned housing sector across north america and around the world. we believe in creating housing projects which are locally governed, self-financed, partially member-operated, and offer affordable rents. we believe that equitable access to affordable student housing is central to creating sustainable urban environments and building a more socially just world.