POSITION DESCRIPTION

The SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa Home Care Sector Director is a key leadership and management position in our Union.

The Home Care Sector Director must have excellent communication and leadership skills, be adept at developing and supervising a team of organizers, have a passion for numbers and ability to deliver results, and be able to serve as a lead negotiator for a 30,000-worker collective bargaining agreement.

In order for SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa to fulfill its core functions effectively, it is essential that all employees perform their jobs in solidarity with the membership and leadership of the Union consistently. The Home Care Sector Director must maintain respectful, professional relationships with Union members, coworkers, the Union’s elected leadership, and not-yet-Union workers the Union is organizing.

Key areas of work responsibility include the following:

1. Supervising, training, developing, supporting and holding accountable a team of Internal Organizers in the Home Care sector who organize and mobilize members and the clients they serve to improve the state’s home care programs.

2. Directing a highly effective program for growing the home care membership of the Union through the implementation of the new statewide home care worker orientation program adopted by state lawmakers.

3. Directing other ongoing programs to grow the home care membership of the Union, in close coordination with the efforts focused on the new orientation program.

4. Negotiating new collective bargaining agreements with the State of Minnesota every two years, establishing wages, benefits and working conditions for more than 30,000 caregivers.

5. Coordinating effective, bipartisan legislative campaigns to improve the lives of home care workers and their clients, including biennial efforts to fund our collective bargaining agreements and a variety of other home care policy improvements at the state level, and both offensive and defensive legislative campaigns at the federal level.

6. Coordinating home care sector programs and work with the other sectors and programs of the Union, including showing up in support of key contract campaigns and legislative initiatives affecting hospital, clinic and nursing home workers.

7. Leading robust electoral advocacy efforts in support of Union-endorsed candidates who support the needs and priorities of home care workers and their clients.

8. Working together with leaders of home care locals across the country through the SEIU Home Care Council to share best practices and strategies, improve effectiveness, and coordinate efforts on federal-level campaigns.

9. Strategic planning and campaign design.

10. Other duties as assigned.

Required qualifications for the position include:

1. Proven track record of effectively managing and developing teams of organizers (not necessarily union organizers)

2. 5-10 years of experience as an effective organizer (not necessarily as a union organizer)

3. Knowledge of and commitment to the principles of the labor movement

4. Ability to establish rapport with workers from widely diversified ethnic, social and economic groups and to mobilize workers around issues

5. Strong meeting-facilitation skills

6. Strong project management skills, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail

7. Ability to manage conflicting demands and competing priorities

8. Ability to work both independently and as part of teams

9. Ability to work under pressure and accommodate high levels of stress

10. Demonstrated ability to operate in politically sensitive situations and exercise excellent judgment

11. Strong oral and written communication skills

12. Strong computer and database skills

13. Able to work long hours

14. Able to travel, drive significant distances and stay overnight

15. Automobile available for work

Preferred qualifications for the position include:

1. Knowledge of and experience with home care programs and the disability justice movement

2. Experience delivering effective adult education or popular education programs

3. Knowledge of and experience organizing and advocating in the legislative and electoral arenas, especially in Minnesota

4. Fluency in languages other than English.

Compensation and benefits are set forth in SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa policies and procedures and as determined by the President. All positions come with excellent insurance and retirement benefits. The expected salary range for this position, depending on qualifications and prior experience, is from $90,000-105,000.

Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, résumé, and three professional references by Friday, February 27th to Jigme Ugen and Dr. Rasha Ahmad Sharif at jobs@seiuhcmnia.org .