Campaign Director – Local Union Organizing Programs

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🕒 May 30

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $135.6k / year

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SEIU

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1921

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

SEIU is a labor union representing about 2 million members across healthcare, public sector, and property services. It organizes workers, negotiates collective bargaining agreements, provides member services and benefits, and advocates for worker rights, economic justice, and public policy changes to improve wages, benefits, workplace safety, and equity. SEIU runs campaigns, communications, and community outreach to build worker power and advance a vision for a more just and equitable society.

📋 Description

• Working within the National Organizing Hub 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. • Collaborating & support for stakeholder local unions at the state, regional and/or national level, in developing, executing, and strengthening local, statewide, regional and/or national strategic organizing programs and campaigns. • 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. • 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 and the overall vision and strategies of the union. • 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 Hubs.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • 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.) • Ability to determine and analyze key factors and conditions of a company, industry, market and/or community to support the development of a campaign strategy. • Ability to develop and manage comprehensive campaigns that effectively integrate and align relevant multiple components, such as field, digital, communications, research, legislative, political, etc. • Ability to develop and/or provide direction on development of effective narrative and communications strategies. • Ability to develop and/or direct staff to build relationships and alliances with coalition partners or allies, and mobilize community support. • Ability to develop and/or give direction on the development and execution of relevant political, legislative or regulatory strategies and tactics. • Ability to coordinate and manage all aspects of convening high level leaders from multiple locals into collaborative joint structures to support the implementation of campaign strategies. • Ability to anticipate and assess campaign strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and make strategic recalibrations. • Knowledge of digital platforms and tools and their application in organizing campaigns including directing campaign staff on basic digital engagement tools such as Zoom, PurpleText or other P2P platform, Organizing VAN Dialer or other direct dialer system, etc. • Ability to build relationships and collaborate across teams and disciplines. • Ability to establish campaign structures, systems, roles and responsibilities to direct and manage staff and campaign teams. • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; ability to make formal presentations. • Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. • Ability to utilize planning and time management tools and practices to plan, prioritize, and effectively manage resources and responsibilities. • Ability to handle multiple “priority” projects and meet established timelines. • Ability to develop and facilitate training of staff, workers and members. • Ability to communicate political and policy priorities.