Bilingual Cantonese/English Tenant Organizer for Corporate Landlord Campaigns

Are you passionate about HOUSING JUSTICE?

Do you want to join a diverse, multilingual tenant organization fighting for TENANT POWER?

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (HRCSF) is a tenants’ rights non-profit serving tenants citywide since 1979, offering free counseling and organizing support for San Francisco tenants in all types of housing, including rent-control, public housing, and Section 8. Our purpose is to strengthen tenants’ rights, improve living conditions for renters, and preserve and expand affordable housing opportunities. Through our counseling program, we support more than 5,000 tenants a year, and our organizing program has helped build five tenant associations across the city since 2019.

Job Description: Bilingual Cantonese/English Tenant Organizer for Corporate Landlord Campaigns

Location: San Francisco

Schedule: 40 hours/week, flexible schedule required

Salary: $36.54/hour

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, chiropractic, acupuncture

Union: Represented by Office & Professional Employees International Union, Local 29

Position Summary:

The Bilingual (Cantonese/English) Tenant Organizer focuses on building tenant power to stop displacement, limit rent increases, and improve conditions for tenants in San Francisco, particularly in buildings owned by corporate landlords. This role emphasizes the empowerment of tenants through organizing tenant associations, door-knocking, flyering, phone banking, running tenant meetings, and facilitating Know Your Rights trainings. The organizer is a part of the Corporate Landlord organizing team to coordinate advocacy efforts and provide critical English-to-Cantonese and Cantonese-to-English translations for tenant education and outreach materials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct tenant education outreach with members in specific buildings facing threats of displacement, harassment and rent increase from corporate landlords.
• Conduct regular meetings with members.
• Build collective tenant power by training groups of tenants to use collective action to address their issues.
• Educate tenants about their rights and other displacement issues.
• Maintain accurate outreach materials, databases, spreadsheets, reporting, social media forms, and lists related to outreach work.
• Translate tenant education materials, outreach flyers, and other resources between English and Cantonese to ensure accessibility for all tenants.
• Meet regularly with the HRCSF organizing team for cross-program coordination.
• Represent HRCSF in coalitions as needed.
• Participate in HRCSF team and staff meetings.
• Other administrative, organizational, and coalitional tasks as needed.

Essential Functions

• Fluent - verbal and written - in Cantonese and English
• Commitment to social and economic justice.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends when needed.
• Proficient in Google Drive such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, zoom, slack and a CRM systems
• Knowledge of issues impacting tenants, immigrants, and people with low incomes
• Currently living in San Francisco or if living outside the city have deep roots in SF

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to resume@hrcsf.org, with ATTN: Bilingual (Canto/Eng) CLL Organizer Organizer in the subject line.

HRCSF is an equal opportunity employer: People of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQI2S, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Diverse viewpoints are vital to our organization’s mission and culture. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.