Description:
The principal role of the Collective Bargaining Strategist is to design and lead strategic bargaining or field campaigns with a focus on issues impacting public employees and care providers.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
- Assist in development of the union’s bargaining program.
- Research, craft and analyze bargaining issues as part of a long-term plan to improve the lives of Oregonians and our members.
- Develop and execute strategic campaign plans, including collaborating with the Department/Program Directors to develop strategic plans.
- Lead organizers in the development and execution of campaign deliverables.
- Lead a team that works to implement the plans and strategic campaigns.
- Development and execution of strategic campaigns.
- Lead Organizers or teams in the development and execution of plans and strategic campaigns.
- Lead multi-departmental strategic bargaining campaigns.
- Collaborate with and support department/program Directors in the development and execution of strategic campaigns.
- Prepare for and negotiate collective bargaining agreements; ratification of contracts; including work action preparation and recruitment.
- Lead bargaining team and negotiations training, Union Steward training, and leadership training and development.
- Contract interpretation; grievance handling and preparation and presentation of arbitration cases; setting up communication systems (personal and telephone) for distribution of information and materials for organizing, bargaining, contract enforcement, and political action.
- Political action: door-to-door canvassing, phone banks, issue campaigns, candidate campaigns, informing the membership on the issues and candidates, targeting candidates, targeting precincts for candidate races, voter registration, questionnaires and surveys on candidates and issues; get-out-the-vote drives.
Qualifications:
- Experience with the development and execution of strategic campaigns.
- Prior experience leading organizers or managing a team.
- Experience serving as a chief negotiator in bargaining including developing bargaining team members to lead on issues during negotiations, bargaining survey development, writing bargaining proposals, communicating bargaining summaries and leading teams through successful bargaining campaigns required.
- Experience with contract administration, political action, leadership identification and development, and motivating people to take action.
- A demonstrated commitment to empowering workers through the labor movement.
- Experience working for social justice as an organizer or activist.
- Ability and stamina to work irregular and long hours and to attend weekend and evening activities.
- Excellent communications skills required.