Senior Campaign Coordinator

Service Employee Intl. Union; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SEIU (Service Employees International Union) seeks a Senior Campaign Coordinator to design and implement large-scale organizing campaigns across regions and sectors. You will lead cross-functional teams, coordinate with Local and International Union leaders, and drive campaign outcomes with a focus on equity and worker power.

You will manage staff, develop strategies, and oversee budgets while shaping SMART goals, metrics, and tactics for field, digital, and legislative components.

Qualifications

• Minimum of seven (7) years of external labor organizing experience; or a combination of five (5) years external labor organizing and two (2) years of internal labor organizing experience.
• A minimum of five (5) years of campaign planning and management experience, including developing and managing multi-component campaigns; working with interdisciplinary campaign teams.
• A minimum of four (4) 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead multi-component organizing campaigns across large geographic areas and industries.
• Coordinate resources between International Union and Local Union leaders and staff.
• Direct and manage campaign staff, establish roles, standards, and performance expectations.
• Oversee campaign budgets, expenditures, and data management systems for decision making.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, equity, and collaboration within campaign teams.

Skills

External labor organizing

Campaign planning

Supervision

Team management

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

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Locations

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Washington, DC 20036, USA

• Full-Time
• Requisition #: SENIO003456

Description

SEIU (Service Employees International Union)

Job Title: Senior Campaign Coordinator

Grade: E1

Location: All USA

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: To represent and assist the International Union in achieving the Organizing Hub’s organizing goals; to design and implement organizing and affiliation plans in collaboration with Local Union Organizing Directors; to plan, in conjunction with International Union and Local Union leaders, large scale comprehensive campaigns, covering large geographic areas, industries, markets, companies, or communities; to direct and manage multi-component, comprehensive campaigns; to build, manage, and maintain campaign teams of International Union staff, local union staff, or special projects staff.

Primary Responsibilities: The Senior Campaign Coordinator has major responsibility for representing and assisting the International Union in carrying out its overall organizing programs and initiatives; for providing leadership in developing and managing innovative, multi-component external organizing campaigns; coordinating International Union and Local Union campaign resources; building and maintaining relationships with International Union and Local Union leaders and staff; creating and maintaining campaign structures and managing the work of staff.

In addition, the Senior Campaign Coordinator is responsible for:

• Developing comprehensive, multi-component campaign plans, including defining an overall campaign strategy, vision and goals; helping shape SMART campaign goals, benchmarks, and tactics for each relevant campaign component, e.g., field, digital, communications, research, legislative.
• Determining and analyzing key factors and conditions of a company, industry, market and/or community for the development of campaign strategy.
• Managing the execution of comprehensive campaigns 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 strategies and platforms.
• Directing and managing staff by establishing clear campaign structures, roles, responsibilities, standards, and expectations, including providing support in the recruiting, screening, hiring and orientation of campaign staff.
• Creating and implementing team systems for mutual accountability and support, including staff meetings, debriefs, training, staff 1:1s, work plans, etc. and responsible for creating a positive and effective team culture of a shared vision, collaboration, inclusion, equity, respect, and innovation.
• Developing and managing systems and processes, including but not limited to, individual work plans, staff development plans, and training, and providing regular and intentional feedback and coaching that support the growth and development of staff, and carrying out disciplinary-related duties as appropriate.
• 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.
• Representing the International Union with local union leaders, staff, members, and outside organizations.
• 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 designated Organizing Hub Campaign Director and/or designated Organizing Hub Director of Organizing Campaigns.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum of seven (7) years of external labor organizing experience; or a combination of five (5) years external labor organizing and two (2) years of internal labor organizing experience.
• A minimum of five (5) years of campaign planning and management experience, including developing and managing multi-component campaigns; working with interdisciplinary campaign teams.
• A minimum of four (4) 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.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to determine and analyze key factors and conditions of a company, industry, market and/or community to