Strategic Organizing Director

Job title: Strategic Organizing Director

About the Role Senior staff position responsible for assisting in the overall development and implementation of UPTE’s strategic, organizational plans, while embracing UPTE’s principles, values, and culture. The Strategic Organizing Director will design and drive campaigns, build leadership across campuses and regions, and manage field organizing staff to advance member power.

What You'll Do

• Under the direction of the Executive Director, design and implement campaigns to recruit and develop leaders and members and win victories on key organizing, contract, political, workplace, and community fights
• Work with Executive Director, staff, officers, and member leaders to build a strong unionwide workplace leadership structure
• Play a lead role in campus, regional, and statewide planning
• Take leadership on high priority issue campaigns and strategic initiatives
• Attend weekly meetings to plan and evaluate progress
• Plan and drive new organizing drives, develop organizing committees, and anchor comprehensive campaigns elements
• Manage internal organizing staff, training, and evaluating staff on implementing a rigorous model for membership, leadership, development, education and driving key fights of the union
• Engage hands on in the day to day work of staff organizers
• Train staff organizers on key skills such as organizing conversations, leadership development, and campaign planning and implementation, including modeling those skills in hands on organizing work
• Hold thorough 1:1s to review staff priorities, goals, turf, leaders, and progress
• Communicate objectives, strategic plans and goals to staff and leaders
• Develop and implement support plans for performance improvement
• Management performance and progressive discipline in conjunction with Executive Director when deemed necessary
• Create and manage field campaign materials
• Track membership engagement metrics as key performance indicators

What We're Looking For

• Values-driven, self-motivated, resourceful individual with the skills, experience, and enthusiasm to drive UPTE’s organizing program
• Experience designing and implementing strategic and organizational plans for a large union or member-driven campaign
• Ability to build and sustain a unionwide leadership structure across campuses, regions, and statewide
• Demonstrated success leading campus, regional, and statewide campaigns and issue-based initiatives
• Strong management and training skills with experience supervising staff organizers and evaluating performance
• Excellent communication and coaching abilities, including holding regular 1:1s with staff and leaders
• Commitment to UPTE’s principles, values, and democratic culture
• Willingness to work from CA bases (SF Bay Area, Sacramento, or Los Angeles) or other CA locations

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting Salary: Dependent on Experience