Community Engagement Coordinator

Seiu 49; Michigan; On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Auto allowance

Work phone and laptop

Generous holiday policies

Pension plan

Job summary

SEIU Healthcare Michigan is seeking a full-time Community Engagement Coordinator to strengthen internal political integration and advance community ties. You will coordinate across departments, represent the local in political spaces, and help shape campaigns that empower workers across Michigan.

The role requires strong political judgment, the ability to convene staff and leaders, and a track record of building durable relationships with municipal, state, and federal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience in political, labor, or community organizing work.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining political relationships.
• Strong political judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to convene and coordinate across departments and roles.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to work evenings, weekends, and travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate regular cross-department political coordination meetings.
• Ensure political and community campaign priorities, timelines, strategies, and goals are understood, aligned across departments, and met.
• Translate political strategy into department-specific implications and action steps.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with municipal, state, and federal elected officials, candidates, and key community groups.
• Track election calendars, appointments, vacancies, and political opportunities.
• Engage members in endorsement processes in alignment with organizational political strategy and internal approval processes.
• Represent SEIU HCMI in political and community spaces as assigned.
• Integrate COPE into political planning and execution across departments by coordinating engagement, supporting member leadership participation, presenting at member bodies as needed, and identifying opportunities to strengthen political infrastructure.
• Support legislative and issue-based political work as assigned and within established strategy.
• Support coalition coordination as assigned by the Political Director.
• Participate in union-wide events, actions, conferences, and organizational priorities as needed, consistent with the shared responsibility of all staff to support the work of the local.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Cross-department coordination

Influence / motivate

Job description

Position: Community Engagement Coordinator

About the organization:

SEIU Healthcare Michigan (HCMI) is a dynamic labor union and the largest healthcare worker union in the state, representing over 50,000 long-term care and hospital workers. HCMI members are dedicated to raising standards for healthcare workers and ensuring access to affordable healthcare for all Michiganders. As part of the two-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), we believe in valuing all workers and respecting all people, fostering thriving communities, and leaving a more equitable world for future generations. We endeavor to build a strong, vibrant, multi-racial, multi- generational labor movement that centers worker power as the vehicle to create good union jobs and healthy communities for all who call Michigan home.

This role is for people who want their work to matter.

At SEIU HCMI, you won't just support campaigns-you'll help build worker power, strengthen the union, and shape outcomes that directly impact the lives of working people across Michigan.

We are looking for someone who is curious, disciplined, and ready to take initiative; someone who can move between strategy and execution, relationships and results. If you are motivated by collective action, political clarity, and the long work of building durable power for workers, we encourage you to apply.

About the position:

SEIU HCMI is hiring a full-time Community Engagement Coordinator to strengthen internal political integration across all departments and to advance community and political relationships. This role ensures the local operates as a unified political organization while expanding community political power.

This position requires strong political judgment, the ability to convene staff and leaders across departments, and experience navigating political and community relationships in complex environments. The Community Engagement Coordinator will represent the local in community and political spaces, contributing to strategic campaigns and internal processes.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate regular cross-department political coordination meetings.
• Ensure political and community campaign priorities, timelines, strategies, and goals are understood, aligned across departments, and met.
• Translate political strategy into department-specific implications and action steps.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with municipal, state, and federal elected officials, candidates, and key community groups.
• Track election calendars, appointments, vacancies, and political opportunities.
• Engage members in endorsement processes in alignment with organizational political strategy and internal approval processes.
• Represent SEIU HCMI in political and community spaces as assigned.
• Integrate COPE into political planning and execution across departments by coordinating engagement, supporting member leadership participation, presenting at member bodies as needed, and identifying opportunities to strengthen political infrastructure.
• Support legislative and issue-based political work as assigned and within established strategy.
• Support coalition coordination as assigned by the Political Director.
• Participate in union-wide events, actions, conferences, and organizational priorities as needed, consistent with the shared responsibility of all staff to support the work of the local.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Required

• Minimum of five years of experience in political, labor, or community organizing work
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining political relationships
• Strong political judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity
• Ability to convene and coordinate across departments and roles
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to motivate, influence, and hold others accountable
• Willingness to work evenings, weekends, and travel as required

Benefits

SEIU Healthcare Michigan staff enjoy excellent benefits, including comprehensive health coverage (major medical, dental, and vision) for employees and their eligible dependents. Additional perks include an auto allowance, work phone and laptop, generous holiday policies, and a pension plan.

The position is a full-time position that occasionally requires long and irregular hours, including some nights, weekends and holidays.

SEIU HCMI is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination, harassment, and harmful behavior of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender identity, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined in federal, state, or local laws. All qualified applicants, including minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, and transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.