Overview
Campaign Organizer Jobs in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA at SEIU Healthcare
SEIU Healthcare IL IN MO KS is looking fordynamicand committed Campaign Organizers to join our groundbreaking fight to build power for the 90,000 hospital workers in the Chicagoland area. The hospital organizing campaign is organizing hospital workers across the industry to fight for their right to have a union, improve standards for workers, and expand access to healthcare for Chicagoland and Kansas City communities.
Who we are:SEIU Healthcare IL IN MO KS is adynamic, action-oriented union of over 90,000 healthcare and childcare workers throughout Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas. We believe in a society defined by freedom and justice, where we can all have qualityeducation, 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 role of the Campaign Organizer is to help unorganized workers to organize and build power in the workplace and the community. This will be done through building organizations and committees of workers fighting for a voice on the job through collective action and campaigns.
Location:Chicago, IL & Kansas City, MO
Duties and Responsibilities:A Campaign Organizer performs a wide range of duties. Examples of those duties and responsibilities are listed below:
Expand the membership of the union.
Build support for union organizing efforts amongst workers, community members, consumers and others.
Develop members to become capable of executing important union organizing roles ensuring members grow, learn and lead.
Build and support Organizing Committees through which workers can exerciseleadershipin campaigns.
Effectively communicate and promote the Local’s vision and mission.
Develop worksite campaigns and actions based on group issues.
Mobilize workers and coordinate organizing meetings, actions and other activities.
Participate in a wide variety of campaign models and settings.
Other Duties as assigned.
Scope and Nature of Supervision:A Campaign Organizer must be able to organize their time, develop and carry out plans with minimum supervision. They must also be able to receive direction from and interact with their immediate supervisor or other leads as needed.
Working Conditions:Campaign Organizers may be required to work long and irregular hours and to work on weekends and holidays when necessary. Campaign Organizers may be required to travel and work on remote campaigns for extended periods.
Position Length:2 years.
Other Expectations:Campaign Organizers are expected tolead by example. It is the role of the Campaign Organizer to provide model behaviors and guidance of what is expected as a Leader in our Union. Organizers must work with racially and ethnicallydiverseworkers in both cities and in rural areas. They must be able torespect, learn from, and lead women, people of color, low-wage workers and others.
The organizer mobilizes worker leaders and develops a plan to build a union in the face of fierce attacks from the bosses. All staff are expected torespectthe processes of the organization and to work within the framework of the organization to resolve internal disputes and issues.
Key Qualification Criteria:
Ability to lead, motivate and inspire workers to develop into leaders and participate in key union organizing activities even in the face of …
Title: Campaign Organizer
Company: SEIU Healthcare
Location: Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Social Work
