Location
Altoona, PA | United States
Job description
Role: The Organizer is a key leadership role in our union. The responsibility of the Organizer includes leadership identification, recruiting, organizing, and mobilizing workers to participate in the movement to improve the lives of working people, our patients/consumers, and our communities and build a more just society. Organizers build the union through developing member leaders, coaching members in workplace leadership roles, facilitating dialogue, and organizing effective communication and mobilizing networks. Organizers connect the concerns of workers in a healthcare facility to the strategy of the union in strengthening a wider movement for social justice and progressive, pro-working family politics in our communities.
Duties and Responsibilities: An Organizer performs a wide range of duties, which may vary according to the needs of the union program or a specific campaign. Examples of those duties and responsibilities, not intended to be exhaustive nor all-inclusive, are listed below:
Organizing Workers/Building Capacity/Identifying and Developing Leaders
Mobilizing Member Networks and Leading Campaigns
Provide Contract Support and Help lead Labor-Management relations
Scope and Nature of Supervision
An Organizer must be able to effectively organize their time and develop and carry out her/his plan with minimum supervision. They must also receive direction from and interact with their immediate supervisor on a regular and consistent basis.
Criteria for Evaluation/Key Qualifications
An Organizer will be evaluated on her/his ability and skill in leading the union’s efforts to engage (organize and mobilize) workers successfully. Among other criteria, they will be evaluated on their ability to:
Work Expectations
Compensation: Competitive salary range of $58,000 – $78,000 depending on experience and benefits package including fully-paid health insurance, defined-benefit pension, optional 401(k), etc.
To Apply: Send a résumé and cover letter explaining your interest to: [email protected]. Please include the words “Internal Organizer” in the title of your email.
About Us: SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is the largest and fastest-growing union of caregivers across the continuum of healthcare. We are the nurses, professional and technical employees, direct care, and service workers in Pennsylvania’s hospitals, nursing homes, home- and community-based care services, and state health facilities. Together, we work to unite all nurses and healthcare workers, organize at work and in the community, drive public policy and legislation, and build a broad, strong movement for good jobs, quality care, and healthy communities across Pennsylvania.
SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, LGBT people, and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
COVID-19 SAFETY POLICY NOTICE: Subject to applicable law, all prospective hires will be required to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious accommodation to this vaccination requirement. Hired candidates who are not vaccinated by the start of their employment and who have not been approved for a legally-required medical or religious accommodation will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment, in accordance with applicable law.
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