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 Unions 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 states 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 lead…