Deputy Campaign Director (Project Director, UPMC campaign) 

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Position

Deputy Campaign Director (Project Director, UPMC campaign)

Role

The Deputy Campaign Director (Project Director, UPMC campaign) is a director-level supervisory staff position in SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania, hired on a project basis for the duration of the UPMC campaign. The Deputy Campaign Director takes responsibility, in collaboration with the Executive Vice President for Strategic Campaigns, for developing and leading the strategy for building power with UPMC health systems workers. The Deputy Campaign Director leads and develops the field staff assigned to the UPMC campaign. The Deputy Campaign Director ensures that workers and their organizers conduct the most participatory and powerful campaign to hold UPMC to the highest community and labor standards of Pennsylvania. The Deputy Campaign Director leads organizing and mobilization programs with workers and their community allies as part of the strategy set by the Officers and Executive Board of the union to organize the healthcare sector and strengthen a wider movement for social justice and pro-working family politics in Pennsylvania.  

Reports to the Organizing Director 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing strategy and organizing plans to organize a strong union of UPMC workers;
• Hiring, training, supervising, developing, evaluating, motivating, and holding accountable organizers;
• Facilitating communication across the team and with individual organizers to review and plan, drive, and assess the work of the campaign;
• Supporting worker leaders and organizers to create and implement plans to build their power and strengthen the campaign;
• Developing and shaping worker communications;
• Leading and supporting organizers in developing campaign plans to solve workplace problems and build power to win improvements;
• Leading organizer and worker participation in the union’s organizing, wider movement, and political programs; and
• Representing the campaign in its relationships with political, community, and labor leaders and organizations, as required.

Qualifications

• At least five years as a union organizer or staff person with responsibility for organizing and worker mobilization;
• Board campaign experience leading workers into the union or on strike;
• Experience motivating, supervising, evaluating, and developing staff and holding them accountable to a campaign and work plan;
• High level of facilitation and leadership skills in collaborative work;
• Ability to work with a diverse group of union staff and member leaders and lead in such a way to advance equity and inclusion of everyone in the union;
• Proficiency in interpersonal communication, listening, conflict resolution, consensus building, and organizing persuasion with union members, staff, and allies;
• Exercises high level of autonomous decision making and problem-solving skills;
• Strong planning skills, ability to discern priorities, and manage multiple responsibilities;
• Emotional intelligence and professional self-management under pressure;
• Knowledge of union history, organization, and strategy;
• Proficiency in professional writing and communication skills;
• Professional standards of behavior and dress;
• A valid driving license and working vehicle, willingness to travel when necessary;
• Willingness to work long and irregular hours, including weekends, evenings, and holidays as required; and
• Exemplary commitment to trade union principles and the cause of labor.

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package includes fully-paid health insurance, defined-benefit pension, optional 401(k), etc.

Location: Pennsylvania

To apply, send a resume and cover letter to sharmika.fargen@seiuhcpa.org. Please include the words “Deputy Campaign Director” in the title of your email.

SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, LGBT people, and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.

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.

Together, we advocate to protect patient care and expand access to quality health care for all. We fight to improve our working conditions and make sure that the healthcare industry creates more good, family-sustaining jobs. We organize in our communities for racial equality and social justice. We lift each other up and create pathways for ordinary nurses and healthcare workers to become extraordinary leaders for change.

We are part of SEIU, the largest union in the country and a leader of the Fight for $15. Together, we are taking on corporate power and helping to build a wider movement for economic, racial, immigrant, and environmental justice.