About this role
About the Role UniServ Director for the UniServ Pool Process, based in Illinois, will lead the planning, development, and execution of membership growth, leadership development, and local union strengthening for IEA-NEA. The role also oversees the regional office, supervises staff, and collaborates with central leadership to advance public education and provide legal and program support to locals and members. What You'll Do
- Assists in planning, organizing, and implementing a membership program to increase membership and charter new locals to ensure that IEA-NEA is the strong voice for public education.
- Promotes and recruits membership involvement in IEA-NEA state, regional and local activities.
- Initiates, plans and conducts leadership training and development for local leaders and members.
- Promotes and assists locals in program planning, implementation and evaluation; promotes local association budget development.
- Works to involve and strengthen locals through collective bargaining.
- Initiates and processes requests for services from other IEA-NEA departments for locals and members.
- Initiates, processes and assists locals and members in securing due process through representation in personnel cases, grievances, arbitrations and dismissal proceedings.
- Acts as representative of IEA-NEA General Counsel when initiating requests, conducting investigations and making recommendations for legal services and when assisting the IEA-NEA General Counsel in the legal representation of locals or members.
- Gathers, organizes and submits required data to the central office and to the Region Council so that IEA-NEA programs and policies can be implemented and maintained.
- Assists in the planning, implementation and promotion of IEA-NEA programs, initiatives and policies.
- Participates in special assignments and projects, which extend beyond the assigned region in order to further the goals and objectives of the IEA-NEA.
- Assists and advises the Region Council in conducting its business and programs.
- Manages the region office including supervising associate staff, i.e., initial employment recommendation, evaluation and remediation.
- Demonstrates a high degree of interpersonal skills. Interacts appropriately with staff, members, and the general public.
- Performs other appropriate duties as directed by assigned management staff. What We're Looking For
- College degree or equivalent; experience in education desirable.
- High degree of organizing skills and capability to deal effectively on interpersonal basis with members, potential members, leadership and IEA-NEA management and Board of Directors are essential.
- Must have working knowledge of school systems, school finance and school law and capability to effectively organize for and negotiate on behalf of school employees.
- Should have capability to effectively assist school employees to organize for political activities.
- Be able to plan, organize, control and supervise his/her assigned regional office.
- Should be able to be actively involved in preparing arbitration cases for members; must have capability to represent members in quasi-arbitration and other legal cases.
- Working knowledge of personal computers required.
- Valid driver’s license required.
- IEA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER AND ENCOURAGES WOMEN, MINORITIES, AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES TO APPLY. Nice to Have
- Experience in education desirable.
- Strong organizing and interpersonal skills. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary Range: $81,277 – $114,941 per year.
- Benefits summary can be found at https://ieanea.org/about/employment/ under Salary & Benefit Summaries, Professional Staff.