Child Care Providers United

Deputy Director

Based in California
(multiple locations including remote)

 

Start Date: Summer 2024
Job Type: Full-time
Location: California (Multiple locations including remote)

Who We Are
Child Care Providers United (CCPU) brings together thousands of child care providers across California who fought for twenty years to win bargaining rights to improve the child care profession and ensure every child has access to quality early learning. Through collective bargaining, providers in California have won health, retirements and training benefits. In CCPU, the growing population of more than 40,000 child care providers throughout the state seek to secure what they need to stay in the field long-term as well as attract new providers to the industry to serve California’s families. Our vision is to improve how child care works, challenging its racist, sexist, and classist roots, as we win quality, affordable and accessible child care for all families in California, while supporting the essential workforce delivering this foundational service.

The Opportunity
The Deputy Director will assist the supervision and direction of the daily work of the union and its associated benefit funds.  The Deputy Director is responsible for supporting the Executive Director in leading and supporting collective bargaining, representation, organizing and leadership development, political advocacy, relationship and coalition building, and communications programs which help accomplish our union’s goals.  When needed, the Deputy Director will also frequently represent CCPU in various local, state, and national settings.

As the Deputy Director you will:  
Union Leadership

• Participate and help lead planning discussions to ensure that all key stakeholders have a thorough understanding of the goals and progress of all organizing, bargaining and legislative campaigns
• Support relationship management with three local unions, members, staff and elected leadership
• Support the Executive Director as liaison with external stakeholders and state agency staff and leadership, legislative staff and leaders, and child care program administrators

Internal Functions

• Train and mentor staff and member leaders on contract enforcement
• Work with administrative staff to coordinate logistics and provide other support as needed related to bargaining, field and other CCPU work

Field Coordination

• Coordinate and lead with local field leads on field campaigns and representation
• Support and coordinate on organizational growth

Communications

• Manage and coordinate communications for child care campaign, including the development of a unified communications strategy and messaging
• Direct contact for local union communicators and consultants to execute all elements of external and internal communications
• Oversee the use of digital and traditional communications tactics to support the efforts of providers to build their union
• Enhance the union’s identity and build its reputation among providers, parents, and community members

What You’ll Bring:

• A commitment to advancing the voice and improving conditions of California’s family child care providers
• 5+ years of leadership in nonprofit, union, government, community organizing organizations; 5+ years of middle or senior management or union leadership experience in positions of increasing responsibility, including managing staff and budgets
• Strong understanding of union organizing, collective bargaining, and the value of workers organizing together
• Excellent at building collaboration across multiple teams to set goals and move towards desired outcomes in alignment with organizational priorities, without formal authority,
• Leading strategy and overseeing implementation of both external and internal communications (Strongly Preferred)
• Strong ability to collaborate and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including CCPU and local union leaders, staff, providers, and vendors.
• Demonstrated commitment to organizational equity and inclusion. Experience leading services with a diverse (cultural, racial, ethnic, class, linguistic) customer base
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university or commensurate experience

To Apply
Please submit a résumé and letter of interest, including your experience working with traditionally underrepresented groups, highlighting instances where you successfully developed outreach and engagement programs for those groups.

Application materials should be sent to jobs@ccpuca.org with Deputy Director in the subject line.

Compensation
CPPU offers competitive wages and industry leading health, vision, dental, and retirement benefits. Salary range of $110-$125k, commensurate with experience.

CCPU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our team members are also responsible for conduct consistent with our EEO standards and are expected to demonstrate respect for all coworkers and participants. We also recognize the desirability of increasing employment opportunities for people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people that are bilingual or multilingual, and people with disabilities.