SEIU-HCIIMK
SEIU Healthcare Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas

Senior Organizer

Based in Chicago, IL

 

Are you ready to make a real impact? SEIU Healthcare IL IN MO KS (HCIIMK) is a dynamic, action-driven union of over 95,000 healthcare and childcare workers across Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas. We’re fighting for social and economic justice—organizing for better wages, healthcare, and a brighter future for working families.

We’re looking for a passionate and experienced senior level union Organizer to help lead the charge in building worker power and join the fight for justice against the attacks on Federal workers. If you’re a strategic thinker, a fearless leader, and an advocate for workers' rights, this is the opportunity for you!

Purpose: The Senior Organizer’s primary responsibility is to build strong teams of staff and worker- leaders to implement HCIIMK’s internal and/or external field plan for an office, area, or division of the local. The Senior Organizer performs a wide range of duties that include staff training and support, member development, and organizing workers through building organizations and committees of workers that can fight for a voice on the job and in their communities through collective action.

Location: Chicago, IL
Assignment: Veteran Affairs Medical Center – Assignments are subject to change 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Inspire & Mobilize 
  • Challenge workers to take action, lead campaigns, and build strong, motivated teams.
  • Run team meeting, prepare and track turf, coordinate staff and worker-leader work plans, debrief organizers and worker-leaders, and prepare reports.
• Develop Leaders 
  • Train and mentor worker-leaders, equipping them with the tools to organize and fight for their rights. 
  • Accountable for leadership development, including mobilization, training, mentoring and development plans. 
  • Take a lead role in building worker leadership structures. 
• Drive Change
  • Lead high-impact campaigns, escalate actions, and build collective power to win real victories. Formulate and deliver with a team on short-term and long-term campaign and project goals
• Grow Our Movement 
  • Expand membership, engage in political and electoral organizing, and build strategic alliances. 
  • Accountable for membership density, growth and activity. Develop and lead campaigns with staff and worker-leaders around workers’ issues that include escalating action.
  • Assess and make recommendations for working with allied organizations based on common interests.
• Make a Difference
  • Represent our union’s mission and priorities in the broader community and advocate for policies that improve workers' lives. 
  • Electoral and political organizing, including accountability to team COPE goals.
  • Articulate union priorities at outside tables (community, political, etc). 
  • Effectively communicate the Union’s vision and mission.

Scope and Nature of Supervision:
The Senior Organizer must be able to organize their time and develop and carry out plans with minimal supervision. They must also be able to receive directions from and interact with their immediate supervisor and other coordinators/directors as needed.

Criteria for Evaluation:
The Senior Organizer will be evaluated on their ability and skill in assisting HCII in meeting its goals of mobilizing and developing worker leaders and representing workers successfully. The Lead Organizer will also be evaluated on their ability to develop and lead teams of staff and worker-leaders.

Working Conditions:
Senior Organizers may be required to work long and irregular hours and to work on weekends and holidays when necessary. Travel may be required, and the Senior Organizer may work on remote campaigns for extended periods.

Other Expectations:
Senior Organizers are expected to lead by example. Senior Organizers must be able to work with racially and ethnically diverse staff and 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 Qualifications Criteria:

• Minimum of one (1) year experience in successfully directing the work of teams of staff and members on organizing campaigns.
• A strong commitment to social justice and alignment to values of our union.
• A belief in workers’ ability to organize and collectively bargain and achieve desired goals together
• Proven ability to effectively lead, inspire, train and develop experienced organizing staff and member interns to plan key union organizing activities even in the face of employer and political opposition and intimidation (i.e. building organizing committees, member to member organizing, actions, etc.).
• 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write reports, facilitate meetings, and conduct trainings. 
• Sound interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to build teams with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Proficiency in Word and PowerPoint, as well as working knowledge of spreadsheets and database software. Must be proficient in organizing databases (i.e. VAN).
• Strong knowledge and experience in organizing practices and principles, including campaign strategies and developing and implementing organizing and/or contract campaigns.
• Experience in the legal, political, economic, and industry forces that impact worker organizing, including knowledge of labor laws relating to our industries.
• Ability to demonstrate self-motivation, initiative, critical thinking skills, responsibility and productivity.
• Valid driver's license, working automobile and valid auto insurance.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish or English and another language of the membership) is a plus.

Preferred Experience:

• 3-5 years of union organizing or bargaining experience.
• Federal or public sector organizing experience.

Salary and Benefits 
Salary: $71,411 – $75,696/ Annually.
Benefits & Additional Compensation: Full-time employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package that includes: Health (Medical), Dental, and Vision Insurance; Dependent Care and Commuter/Transit Flexible Spending Accounts; a 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; and Paid Time Off. Most benefits are available to full-time employees on the first of the month following the hire date.

To Apply:
Please apply using the following link: https://seiuhcii.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a2wlmkafcaq9/aa0