Regional Deputy Director

SEIU Local 2015 Job Description

SEIU Local 2015 is California’s Long-Term Care workers organization that will unleash the collective power of long- term care workers, their families, and their communities, harness the power of technology, and build a broad movement to disrupt the unjust status quo in order to bring lasting transformational change towards a more just society for all.

SEIU Local 2015 represents over 400,000 homecare providers, nursing home workers and assisted living center workers throughout California, making it the largest local union in California. For more information please visit, http://seiu2015.org

Position Purpose:

The Regional Deputy Director will assist in leading the Member Strength Department and the Region in meeting the goals that align with the vision and mission of SEIU2015. Must show skill in all core competencies expected of Local 2015 staff. The Deputy Director reports to the Regional Director.

Required Competencies:

• Lead with vision and purpose to inspire staff and members to engage in and lead on key union priorities, including politics, growth and membership
• Foster equity and inclusion, including cultural competence to work with diverse staff and communities, commitment to building an anti-racist organization
• Ignite motivation to achieve results, including coach and model, practice active listening and self-reflection, give and receive authentic feedback, and hold oneself and one’s team accountable to commitments and outcomes
• Build and lead great teams, including manage goals, roles, processes and relationships, relationship building, and working collaboratively across departments
• Develop self and others using collective ownership and consistent evaluation and self- reflection, and accountability to outcomes
• Organize their own work and the work of their team, including create clear roles and responsibilities, clear communication, organize their time and support staff to do the same, and demonstrate self-motivation
• Exhibit the ability to demonstrate SEIU Local 2015 core values.
• Demonstrated competency in organizing and representational work including a basic knowledge of related labor laws and regulations related to the organizing and representation of workers. (Ex. NLRA, FLSA, PERA)
• Demonstrated ability to embrace and foster innovation into their work and within their teams that helps improve efficiencies and execute towards organizational goals.
• Highly competent in using Microsoft Office, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.  Also demonstrates the willingness to harness the power of social media to help execute the work of the organization

Experience and Education:

• 5+ years of experience in union or community organizing and representation.
• 2+ years of experience in