Careers | rare Charitable Research Reserve

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At rare, we are dedicated to removing bias from our hiring process and have implemented an anonymous review component to our recruitment process. This means we remove your name, address and e-mail from your application/resume prior to it being reviewed by the hiring manager. This information is only made available to the hiring manager if you are selected for an interview.

We are committed to racial justice, reconciliation and equity-building and we welcome individuals from marginalized communities, including Black people, Indigenous people, people of colour, 2SLGBTQI+ and self-identifying women candidates applying for jobs at rare. We encourage people with disabilities to apply for jobs at rare. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Note that rare is a Certified Living Wage Employer and we include the salary range in all postings.

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Modelled after an academic institute or research lab more so than corporate Canada, the culture we strive for is a casual work environment that is positive, supportive and collegial. As an environmental organization, working at rare is not merely a job but a lifestyle choice where sustainability is a core value. This is reflected in our physical work environment as well as in finding ways to support a healthy balance of life and work.

As part of our orientation process, we invite you to be an active listener, observe your environment and ask as many questions as you like to help you understand the organization and its values. Most of our staff dress casually and we invite you to be yourself and dress how you are most comfortable to do your work. We all have different bodies to dress and it doesn’t matter what you wear, it only matters what you contribute to the collective work. It takes all kinds people to do good work collectively, and we treat each other in a friendly manner and with respect regardless of our differences.

People at rare follow a passion, and want to work towards a greater good by contributing to the team – our success is only as good as the entire team, but everyone needs to be able to work independently to contribute to that. This also means we assume that everyone has high expectations for themselves and their work, and we trust each other that everyone is trying to do their best work. If we see others struggle, we try to help and support them. We also try to focus people’s work around their strengths.

If you are struggling at home or at work we are here to listen and support you the best we can to find ways to accommodate you temporarily until the difficulties are resolved.

This environment of trust, and our academic culture, also means that we encourage taking risks, experimentation and ultimately failure on the way to success, but we try to fail forward (i.e. not making the same mistakes again). This also means that sometimes projects or ideas are emergent and take some time to develop, and not everything is urgent – we’re not working towards making the biggest profit for a corporation, but working towards finding the best ways on how we want to live sustainably, and that’s often not necessarily a straight path from start to finish. You will have a lot of freedom to develop yourself and ideas, and to a certain extent, everyone is expected to be a leader in their own area of work. Conferences, trainings, and particularly, reading and sometimes simply taking the time to thoroughly think things through, are all considered part of your work and encouraged.
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You will find many opportunities to socialize with colleagues and supporters during outings, celebrations, all-hands-on-deck events, learning opportunities and shared meals.

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