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"Our union is growing and has new opportunities for smart, dedicated, and passionate people looking to work in a dynamic, progressive, and innovative labor union."

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the largest and fastest-growing union in North America, with 2 million members in Healthcare, Property Services, and Public Services. SEIU is the nation’s largest healthcare union and is working to expand access to quality, affordable and secure healthcare for all. SEIU Local 105 is a growing union and represents over 7,000 healthcare and property service workers in Colorado but concentrated in the Denver Metro area.

Are you ready to be challenged and inspired? Are you ready to do meaningful work and be part of struggles that you would tell your friends and/or grandkids about? Are you ready to do multi-faceted work that builds power for working people? If so, we want to hear from you!

SEIU Local 105 is hiring a full-time Political Director to strengthen our political work and program through a lens of member and worker organizing. This role ensures the local operates as a unified political organization while expanding our political power through member leadership development, education, organizing and engagement.

This position requires strong judgment, the ability to convene staff and leaders across departments, and experience navigating political relationships in complex environments. The Political Director will work in partnership with the State Council and other SEIU Local Unions in Colorado.

• Centralize organizing and member leadership development in all planning
• Coordinate electoral planning for targeted strategic campaigns with the State Council and SEIU stakeholders with clear goals and benchmarks
• Work with the State Council to build and execute field campaign for targeted elections, political accountability and state battles
• Assist Local union staff in recruiting, training, mobilizing and deploying member political organizers (MPOs)
• Ensure Local Union and State Council regular reporting of progress-to-goal for electoral programs
• Increase SEIU political, community and labor strength through developing and enhancing working relationships with State Federations, Central Labor Councils, Affiliated and Independent Unions, community organizations and advocacy groups
• Integrate Local Union political capacity into all electoral and member based programs, including worksite mapping, recruiting worksite leaders, raising COPE funds, conducting member census and registering members to vote
• Enhance the political infrastructure of SEIU through assisting the development of State Council plans, political and legislative programs, and through developing grassroots training and education programs for members and local union staff
• Convene and facilitate regular cross-department political coordination meetings
• Ensure political priorities, timelines, and strategies are understood and aligned across departments
• Translate political strategy into department-specific implications and action steps
• Serve as the internal point of coordination to ensure the local operates as a unified political organization
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with federal, state, municipal and community leaders
• Track election calendars, appointments, vacancies, and local political opportunities
• Coordinate endorsement processes in alignment with organizational political strategy and internal approval processes
• Represent SEIU Local 105 in political and community spaces
• Integrate COPE into political planning and execution across departments by coordinating engagement, supporting member leadership participation, presenting at member bodies as needed, and identifying…