Organizer Coordinator, SEIU 221

Title: Organizing Coordinator

Location: San Diego, CA

The Organizing Coordinator is a staff leadership position responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Organizing Department while providing leadership, direction and development to staff and members. The position is responsible for internal organizing, bargaining, coordinating members, training, coaching, planning campaigns to execution and data tracking. The position reports directly to the Staff Director. As part of the leadership team, the Organizing Coordinator collaborates implementation of SEIU 221 Mission, Vision, Values and Organizational Priorities.

Required Competencies:

• Lead with vision and purpose to inspire staff and members to engage in and lead on key union priorities, including strength, leadership development, and political strength.
• Foster equity and inclusion, including cultural competence to work with diverse staff and communities, and commitment to building an anti-racist organization.
• Ignite motivation to achieve results, including coach and model, practice active listening and self-reflection, give and receive authentic feedback, and hold oneself and one’s team accountable to commitments and outcomes.
• Build and lead great teams, including managing goals, roles, processes and data, relationship building and working collaboratively across departments.
• Develop self and others using collective ownership and consistent evaluation, self-reflection, and accountability to outcomes.
• Organize their own work and the work of their team, including clear roles and responsibilities, clear communication, organize their time and support of staff to do the same and demonstrate self-motivation.
• Highly effective oral, written, and digital communication skills.
• Computer and digital literacy relevant to the position.
• Minimum of 5 years of managing a staff of five or more people.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage internal organizing campaigns – including membership and COPE drives, issue campaigns, and contract fights – that support the overall vision and priorities of the Local.
• Serve as Lead Negotiator and campaign strategist for multiple contracts and “meet and confer” processes, while training assigned staff to bargain and lead contract campaigns.
• Plan, lead, and support actions of all types and sizes, including leafletting, unity breaks, worksite rallies, informational pickets, and strikes at multiple worksites simultaneously while reporting numbers to the Staff Director.
• Supervise the work of all staff within the Organizing department to carry out programs, reach benchmarks, and achieve goals
• Conduct consistent Organizing Team meetings, trainings, and on-on-one meetings with staff to review and plan their work assignments, in order to achieve the organizations 3 initiatives.
• Provide support when requested by the Staff Director in recruiting and hiring staff, conducting annual performance evaluations, and developing individualized professional development plans for assigned staff.
• Issue non-disciplinary Corrective Action when necessary to improve staff performance, as well as Disciplinary Action when Corrective Action is not successful or appropriate with the Staff Directors approval.
  Recommend higher levels of Disciplinary Action to the Staff Director and assist with the disciplinary process up to and including the termination of staff when necessary.
• Manage programs to recruit and develop job stewards, new member leaders, union leave, Stewards Council, Worksite Committees, and Contract Action Teams.
• Ensure all staff are involving rank-and-file members, job stewards and workplace leaders in development of organizing strategies and tactics, always ensuring understanding, commitment, and participation in campaigns.
• Develop strategies and tactics that promote class-consciousness and advance anti-racist, anti-sexist, and other anti-oppressive struggles of working people.
• Maintain strong working relationships with community organizations, political allies, and other unions and work collaboratively to identify “common good” bargaining demands.
• Represent SEIU Local 221 professionally in meetings with SEIU International, SEIU State Council, community organizations, elected officials, and elsewhere as deemed necessary by the Staff Director.
• Represent and train staff to work collectively and individually, including formal communications with employer representatives, filing charges, grievances, and other enforcement actions as needed.
• Competently perform all organizing and representational duties necessary to work a route, cover for staff absences, and trouble-shoot challenges plus train staff to do the same.