Organizing Campaign Director Project Position (9 months)

Employer: Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Location: Pennsylvania, PA

 

JOB TITLE: Organizing Campaign Director Project Position (9 months)

GRADE: F

ANNUAL SALARY: $129, 074

LOCATION: Pennsylvania, PA

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 Campaign Director is a management-level position responsible for representing and assisting the International Union in carrying out its overall organizing programs; for developing, executing, and managing statewide, regional and/or national strategic campaigns and breakthrough organizing initiatives.

The Campaign Director is responsible for creating campaign structures and managing the teams necessary to execute campaigns and organizing initiatives. The Campaign Director is responsible for staffing SEIU participation on relevant government agencies, commissions, and coalitions associated with the campaigns and initiatives.

This is a nine-month temporary position.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Working within the National Organizing Department to represent and assist the International Union in carrying out its overall organizing programs; developing campaign strategies, that includes processes for researching and developing winning demands; creating and maintaining multi-component, joint strategy tables to coordinate campaign work and activities.
• Managing the execution of comprehensive campaigns and initiatives to achieve overall campaign goals and benchmarks at each phase of the campaign; assessing campaign execution and making recommendations on strategic decisions including overseeing campaign operations; determining data management systems to collect, track and analyze relevant data for strategic campaign decision-making; and overseeing the utilization of digital organizing strategies and platforms.
• Collaborating with stakeholder local unions at the state, regional and/or national level.
• Staffing SEIU participation on relevant government agencies, legislative bodies, and coalitions necessary to execute campaign strategy.
• Working with appropriate International Union staff to determine appropriate and strategic allocation of International Union staff and other resources to support the successful execution of campaigns.
• Overseeing the development and administration of campaign budgets, including authorizing expenditures.
• Overseeing the hiring and management of campaign staff.
• Performing other duties, as assigned, in support of the work of the International Union Organizing Program and/or Division.

Direction and Decision Making: This position reports to the Core Industry Director and may collaborate with other staff within the National Organizing Department, Division, Local and State Councils Leadership. Must work without a high degree of supervision and have the ability to manage their own work and the work of others. Requires a high level of judgment and ability to take initiative and work independently. Must use a high level of judgment and discretion, and maintain the highest level of confidentiality.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of external labor organizing experience; or a combination of seven (8) years external labor organizing and two (2) years of internal labor organizing experience.
• A minimum of eight (8) years of campaign planning and management experience, including developing and managing multi-component campaigns; working with interdisciplinary campaign teams.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of direct supervisory or team management experience, including leading campaign teams and staff.
• Graduation from a four-year college or university is not required, but is a plus.
• (Candidates who do not meet the minimum qualifications of experience will not be considered.)

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