Website worker_owned Worker Owned Recovery California Coalition
We must ensure that California won't go backward and prop up an economy that wasn't serving our communities before the pandemic.
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POSITION DETAILS
● SEIU employee
● $76,000 if several years of experience, otherwise most appropriate tier (see CBA
and Wage Scales)
● Benefits package
● 40 hours/week salaried, exempt
● You will be assigned to help the WORC coalition execute the following
coordination work for 1 year, with possibility to be assigned to this work longer.
Possibility for extension beyond 1 year will depend on SEIU-UHW’s research
priorities and whether SEIU-UHW needs additional internal research capacity. If
additional internal capacity is needed, this position will revert to a regular
Research Analyst position at SEIU-UHW. For that reason, we prefer candidates
who are also interested in and open to union research work and corporate
campaigning (many backgrounds are useful and relevant to this work: policy,
healthcare, data, financial analysis, legal, social & economic justice, workforce
development, grassroots organizing, and others).
● Applicants should send a resume and brief letter of interest to Ra Criscitiello at
rcriscitiello@seiu-uhw.org
REQUIRED QUALITIES
– Experience managing and building a coalition, facilitating groups, participating in
coalition leadership, or experience in other collaborative advocacy environments
– Interest in engaging in the CA state policy arena, including developing strategy,
identifying opportunities for our work, and developing and maintaining key
relationships that grow our political power
– Experience in the worker ownership field or compelling explanation for why you
want to move into this field
– Willing to travel to Sacramento as necessary
– Policy and strategic research experience or interest
– Experience with democratic decision-making processes and ability to lead a
diverse group to compromise, consensus, and action
– Excellent facilitator
– Excellent project manager with strong time, organization, and task management
skills to ensure the coalition plans ahead and meets deadlines
– Comfortable engaging with normal levels of conflict in a constructive, generative
way
– An action-oriented self-starter: We want you to take initiative, dream up creative
ideas, and engage with the core steering committee, general membership, and
allies to collaboratively develop plans and get things done!
– Kindness, diligence, patience, and integrity, and a commitment to fighting for
economic, social, and racial justice
– Culture, race, and class competency. Value and have experience working with and
advancing the needs of diverse populations
DESIRED QUALITIES
– Located near Oakland, Los Angeles, or Sacramento, with a preference for
Sacramento.
– Passion for worker cooperatives and/or other forms of worker ownership
– Understanding of and interest in organized labor
– Interested in supporting the growth and leadership of the steering committee. If
you are a seasoned policy advocate and/or skilled leader, we want you to share
that and grow the ability of the whole team.
WORK DESCRIPTION
1. Coordination: Support steering committee members in determining and
prioritizing strategy and oversee their timely and effective execution of tasks.
Manage activities to engage general membership. With the steering committee,
assess and improve coalition structure, governance, and operational
administration.
2. Steering committee meetings and task manager: Grow, support, and
coordinate the core steering committee, which is the coalition’s leadership and
decision making body. Plan and facilitate meetings (or support other facilitators),
assign tasks, and follow up with individuals to provide support and make sure
tasks are completed on time.
3. Research and issue expertise: Become, over time, well-versed in and a thought
leader on our issues; contribute to research, policy development, and content
development.
4. Communications lead: Lead communications work, including creating webpage
content and regular website maintenance, drafting and publishing press releases
for key milestones, drafting op-eds, setting up and managing online presence for
campaigns (sign-ons, endorsements, letters, communication toolkits, etc), leading
social media campaigns, managing Twitter account, and supporting the
communication efforts of all member organizations and campaign supporters
with effective media toolkits (e.g. sample emails, tweets, posts). Coordinate
editorial input from the steering committee. Field press inquiries and direct them
to members as necessary.
5. Membership engagement: Grow, support, and engage the coalition’s general
membership. Coordinate and facilitate quarterly update calls with the full
coalition membership, including scheduling, outreach, setting the agenda with
the input of steering committee members.
6. Contractor manager and liaison: Serve as main contact for our contract
lobbyist(s), policy consultant(s), researcher(s), etc. This means that you will be
responsible for co-designing and getting steering committee signoff on new
contracts and securing member commitments for regular monthly payments.
Most importantly, it means that you need to regularly check in with these
contractors to monitor their quality of work, communicate priorities, ensure they
are feeling supported and are working well with the steering committee, working
with the steering committee to ensure they are happy with the contractors, and
making recommendations for and supporting with any necessary adjustments to
ensure the effectiveness of these relationships.
7. Administrative and compliance support: Invoicing, quarterly and annual
lobbying tracking and reporting requirements, and other administrative and
record-keeping needs.
8. Coalition contact: Your contact information (email and phone) would be listed
on all communications, and you would be the point person for all inquiries
relating to the coalition.
9. Member management and engagement: Fielding initial member inquiries,
coordinating onboarding and orienting new members, and regularly
interfacing/checking in with members. Adding new member logos to the website.
10. Voice: We want you to contribute your perspectives and experience in order to
strengthen this coalition and move the steering committee toward good
decisions. You are invited to do that by sharing your perspective in steering
committee and membership meetings, including by providing thoughtful
pushback and proactively bringing proposals for steering committee
consideration.
11. Ambassador for the Coalition: Know our positions and relay them in position
letters, at hearings, and directly to relevant parties (consulting with coalition
leadership and contractors as needed); support other coalition leaders (steering
committee members) in acting as ambassadors as well.