Internal Organizer

SEIU Healthcare; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

SEIU Healthcare IL IN MO KS is a dynamic union seeking an Internal Organizer to mobilize workers, build leadership, and run campaigns. You will develop leaders, form committees, and coordinate turf plans across Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas.

You’ll recruit members, organize meetings, and support contract campaigns while representing workers and applying NLRA basics. Flexibility for weekend work and travel is expected.

Qualifications

• A strong commitment to social justice and the goals and principles of our union.
• Belief in workers’ ability to organize and collectively bargain and achieve goals together.
• Ability to work with local union leaders and directors on organizing programs.
• Willingness to move according to the needs of the organization.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire others even in the face of opposition.
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills with diverse groups.
• Desire to learn about labor history, bargaining, organizing models, and related information.
• Flexible to handle multiple priorities and meet deadlines; accountable to leaders.

Responsibilities

• Move and challenge individual workers to participate in campaigns.
• Develop workers to grow, learn and lead within the union.
• Build worker committees for campaigns, neighborhoods, or workplaces.
• Create and execute turf plans and track work accomplished.
• Membership recruitment and moving workers to action.
• Organize membership and worker meetings and events.
• Support contract campaigns and organizing drives.
• Represent members and assist with contract enforcement and basic NLRA knowledge.

Skills

Social justice commitment

Workers organizing belief

Work with union leaders

Willingness to relocate

Leadership motivation

Interpersonal communication

Learning labor history

Multitasking & deadlines

Judgment & initiative

Computer skills & Internet

Driver's license & vehicle

Bilingual abilities

Tools

Microsoft Office

Databases

Internet

Job description

SEIU Healthcare IL IN MO KS is a dynamic, action-oriented union of over 95,000 healthcare and child care workers throughout Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas. We believe in a society defined by freedom and justice, where we can all have quality education, health care and jobs, and where we all can live a full and plentiful life of our choosing. SEIU HCIIMK’s mission is to organize together to build power and demand and win social and economic justice for our communities.

Purpose

The Internal Organizer’s primary responsibility is to challenge workers to take collective action to build power at work and in their communities. Internal Organizer’s engage workers and identify and develop leaders through a variety of campaigns, including contract and community or political campaigns, and will be expected to build worker committees in their assigned area.

Location

Chicago, Illinois / St. Louis, Missouri.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Move and challenge individual workers
• Develop workers to ensure they have the chance to grow, learn and lead
• Build worker committees for a campaign, neighborhood or workplace
• Create and execute a turf plan, and track and report work accomplished
• Membership recruitment and move workers to action
• Organize membership and worker meetings
• Support contract campaigns and organizing drives
• Member representation and contract enforcement, including basic knowledge of the National Labor Relations Act
• Organize community support; attend meetings with allied organizations or community partners
• Electoral and political organizing, including COPE recruitment
• Basic communications (flyers, rap)
• Effectively communicate the Union’s vision and mission
• Other duties as assigned

Scope and Nature of Supervision

The Internal Organizer must be able to organize his or her time and develop and carry out plans with support and supervision. S/he must also be able to receive direction from and interact with his or her immediate supervisor and others as necessary.

Criteria for Evaluation

The Internal Organizer will be evaluated on his/her ability and skill moving workers to action and to lead, and in representing workers successfully. Organizers will also be evaluated on their ability to balance conflicting demands successfully and carry out assigned responsibilities in a competent and professional manner.

Working Conditions

The Internal Organizer may be required to work long and irregular hours, and to work on weekends and holidays when necessary.

Other Expectations

Organizers are expected to lead by example. Organizers must be able to work with racially and ethnically diverse workers in both cities and in rural areas. They must be able to respect, learn from, and lead women, people of color and low-wage workers and others. All staff are expected to respect the processes of the organization and to work within the framework of the organization to resolve internal disputes and issues.

Key Qualification Criteria

• A strong commitment to social justice and the goals and principles of our union.
• A belief in workers’ ability to organize and collectively bargain and achieve desired goals together.
• Ability to work with local union leaders and directors on organizing programs.
• A willingness to move according to the needs of the organization.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire others and participate in key union organizing activities even in the face of employer opposition and intimidation (i.e. building organizing committees, member to member organizing, actions, etc.)
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds
• Desire to learn about labor history, collective bargaining, organizing models and other relevant information, and ability to support others in doing the same.
• Must be flexible and able to handle multiple priority projects simultaneously and meet established deadlines and remain accountable to leaders, senior staff, and organizational goals.
• Good and ethical judgment. Willingness to take initiative, to work with a team.
• Basic working knowledge of Microsoft Office, databases and Internet.
• A valid driver’s license, car and car insurance.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish or English and other language of membership) is a plus.

Salary and Benefits

Salary range $65,380 - $69,301 Annually.

Full-time employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Health (Medical)
• Dental
• Vision Insurance
• Dependent Care and Commuter/Transit Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Reimbursement Account
• Basic and Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Ancillary Benefits such as Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Pension Plan eligibility once vested
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Most benefits are available to full-time employees on the first of the month following the hire date.