Senior Organizing Capacity Training

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Job Title: Senior Organizing Capacity Training Coordinator

Grade: MGT E1            

Annual Pay : $115,244.52

Location: ALL USA / Hybrid

Organizational Overview: We are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union of about 2 million diverse members in healthcare, the public sector, and property services. We believe in and fight for our vision for a just society: where all workers are valued and all people respected—no matter where we come from or what color we are; where all families and communities can thrive; and where we leave a better and more equitable world for generations to come. We are an anti-racist union determined to check corporate power and uproot structural racism through unions—worker power and collective action—and government— legislative and political action. We fight for Unions for All and a government that works for all so that all of us, across race and place, can have power together in unions and participate fully in our democracy.

Purpose: The Organizing Capacity Coordinator is responsible for the development, execution and coordination of trainings, training programs, and other learning opportunities designed to enhance organizing, campaigner and leadership skills of union organizers within the SEIU IU organizing community and our affiliated local unions.

The Organizing Capacity Coordinator must be able to assess the development of organizers at all levels from OIT to Coordinator level and identify their needs and opportunities to grow and advance to the next level of development and responsibility. The Organizing

Capacity Coordinator must be able to design, conduct and facilitate trainings and learning opportunities in both classroom, online and other settings.

Primary Responsibilities: The Organizing Capacity Coordinator will be responsible for:

• Developing training programs to address building skills and competencies for a particular audience or level within the SEIU organizing community;
• Executing trainings and other developmental opportunities or learning spaces for varying levels of union organizers that align with new (external) organizing campaign goals and strategies and SEIU's overall goals;
• Creating and writing relevant and effective training materials, including curricula, hand- outs, PowerPoint or Canva presentations, and interactive exercises;
• Learning and utilizing creative training techniques and approaches to teach concepts, skills, and best practices of union organizing and staff development;
• Adapting teaching strategies according to the training audience and applying the best approaches to maximize the learning opportunities of trainees including utilizing a racial justice lens;
• Work in collaboration with others to apply diversity, equity and inclusion principles and best practices particularly applying a racial justice lens to the work;
• Work in coordination with IU Divisions, Departments and/or Local Union leadership to evaluate development needs and develop and implement or assist in the development and planning of trainings and other staff development components;
• Provides leadership in upholding SEIU’s overall staff development and organizing standards;
• Facilitating and providing feedback in large and small group training discussions, exercises and practice labs to support trainees’ development and enhance their understanding of and ability to utilize training information and materials in the classroom and field;
• Conducting new hire trainings and orientations to acquaint new organizing staff to the SEIU and its policies and procedures
• Assisting in the recruitment, screening and assessment of organizer candidates; conducting phone and in-person interviews; facilitating group candidate screenings; and assisting with hiring recommendations to SEIU locals and IU Divisions;

• Assisting in oversight of SEIU Organizers-in-Training (OITs) and coordinating with appropriate field/campaign managers to ensure each OIT is receiving appropriate training and feedback, and reviews are completed in accordance with relevant SEIU CBA;
• Working closely with the Capacity operations team to ensure training logistical requirements and needs are successfully executed and met;
• Additional responsibilities, as may be required, including but not limited to: Maintaining and updating training materials in training database; maintaining and monitoring a training budget; researching conferences and external training events that would benefit individuals or group staff development.

Direction and Decision Making: The Organizing Capacity Coordinator is a member of t