Join Us!
Idaho Education Association is looking for an enthusiastic organizer to help recruit, engage and retain IEA educator members in North Idaho. They will be based in the Lewiston-Moscow area or in IEA’s Coeur d’Alene office. The successful candidate is engaging, outgoing, eager for results and familiar with union organizing and/or education issues. The superior candidate is tenacious, has an intimate understanding of issues facing educators today and has proven experience as a union organizer.
Job Function and Purpose:
The person in this organizer role works under the supervision of the associate executive director and is a primary face-to-face member recruiter and member retention expert for the association in North Idaho. They work closely with IEA headquarters staff and staff members in our Region 1 (Coeur d’Alene) and Region 2 (Lewiston) offices to increase the association’s membership rolls in their area.
Required qualifications include:
- Ability to work independently and in team relationships with colleagues
- Ability to work with a diverse set of individuals
- Effective verbal and written communication and interpersonal relationship
- Demonstrated commitment to social, racial, economic and educational justice
- Maintenance of a valid driver’s license and insured vehicle
- Willingness to work long and irregular hours, often with extensive travel
Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience in community, student, labor, political or environmental activism
- Understanding of the labor movement and the role of public education in our democracy
- Effective verbal and written communication and interpersonal relationship
- Efficient time management and organizational skills
- Ability to work independently
Duties:
- Organize and mobilize educators
- Identify, recruit and develop workplace leadership
- Provide on-the-job training for member leadership, particularly worksite leadership, on one-on-one organizing and recruitment conversations
- Conduct and train/coach member leadership on how to conduct effective large- scale organizing and membership recruitment meetings
- Conduct and train/coach member leadership on how to build an effective organizing committee
- Identify workplace organizing issues, develop worksite organizing plans and collective action plans and execute plans with broader leadership team
- Assist region directors and local leadership in local and region-wide organizing plan implementation
- Assist in the implementation of state-wide organizing initiatives and programs
- Make appointments for site/school visits, one-on-one visits, and other interactions with current and potential members
- Enter assessments and other data, analyze data and track progress toward reaching goals
- Occasional short-term travel to other parts of the state or country
- Report supervisors progress on planned activities and goals to appropriate colleagues and supervisor
- Create and effect a personal development plan
- Solicit assistance to achieve goals
- Create workplans that reflect both the goals of the IEA and local association(s) assigned
- Participate in regular team meetings