Lead Organizer

• Planning, leading and conducting a wide array of organizing activities
• Targeting, target reconnaissance, home visits, leadership recruitment
• Training volunteers, rating workers, running elections
• Initiating card check campaigns and conducting first-contract campaigns based on the AFSCME Organizing Model
• Leads a team of staff organizers and volunteers for an organizing campaign
• Researches potential organizing targets
• Conducts one-on-one organizing through home and work site visits to assess and recruit supporters and leaders
• Serves as a team leader whose primary responsibility is to model, coach and train organizing staff on best practices
• Writes organizing plans and ensures that the written plans of team members are appropriate
• Monitors team effectiveness and in evaluating progress against the campaign plan and goals
• Provides for recruitment of volunteer organizers from within the AFSCME membership and for their training
• Develops broad, representative organizing committees of worker-leaders, and trains and deploys them
• Develops message and communications program
• Writes leaflets and other materials for organizing campaigns
• Plans and conducts meetings with organizing committees and other workers
• Develops and leads worker mobilizations
• Develops and implements strategies to counter anti-union campaigns
• Operates computer database program and provides for the maintenance of organizing database
• Informs Area Organizing Director, Regional Director or other supervisors of activities, developments and progress

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in union organizing and campaign development at a very seasoned level
• Knowledge of training and principles of effective leadership and mentoring
• Extensive knowledge of union organizing practice and principles
• Extensive knowledge of labor laws, especially with respect to union organizing
• Extensive knowledge of anti-union employer tactics
• Ability to conduct research on employers and gather information to evaluate organizing targets
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from a wide variety of audiences
• Ability to lead, train, and coordinate experienced organizing staff, organizer trainees, volunteer organizers and organizing committee members
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete and some abstract variables
• Demonstrated leadership and motivational skills
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills, including excellent “one-on-one” interpersonal communications
• Valid driver’s license required

Fluent bilingual skills are desirable

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