Field Services Manager

POSITION TITLE
:
Manager of Field Services

DEPARTMENT
:
Field Services

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR
:
Director of Field Services

EMPLOYEE GROUP
:
The Education MN Professional Organization (TEMPO)

LOCATION
:
St. Paul

HOURS/STATUS
:
Full time

PROBATIONARY PERIOD
:
One (1) year

FLSA/GRADE LEVEL
:
Exempt

Assist the Director of Field Services (“Field”) to manage department programs, implement Education Minnesota and Field Service department priorities and objectives, and supervise professional staff and office professional support staff. Managers in field services are responsible for developing and leading key initiatives related to member recruitment and retention, member rights, collective bargaining, leadership development, and organizing.

Education Minnesota is a member-led labor union that has identified racial equity and social justice as primary organizational goals. All staff are expected to participate, individually and collectively, in ongoing training, discussions and activities to advance these goals.

• Implement Education Minnesota field programs to increase the capacity of locals to meet member needs, including but not limited to collective bargaining, contract enforcement, issue and crisis organizing, member rights advocacy, member recruitment and retention, legislative and political action, and engagement with racial and social justice issues.
• Hire, support and directly supervise assigned staff.
• Build and support staff’s efforts to help locals develop sustainable capacity to engage in comprehensive action on a range of issues.
• Develop staff’s ability to advance equity work in locals.
• Support and integrate Education Minnesota’s racial and social justice goals into the work of the department.
• Lead and support staff teams, both in the field department and across departments, to implement department and organizational priorities and initiatives.
• Be a collaborative member of the field leadership team and the Education Minnesota executive staff team.
• Build and support collaboration across staff within the department and coordinate the work of Field with other departments.
• Ensure governance understanding of and engagement in the department’s work, as well as ensure a solid foundation for governance decision-making on issues relevant to the department’s work.
• Develop, promote and facilitate training for staff.
• Assist the Director of Field Services in the development of budget recommendations and oversight of the field budget.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Ability to promote and facilitate innovative thinking and strategic planning.
• Ability to take concepts of organizational change and effectively put them into action.
• Demonstrated awareness of social, racial and economic justice with a high level of cultural competence.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of labor unions, collective bargaining, organizing principles and members’ rights.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, train and support staff.
• Strong planning and organizational skills and the ability to set and achieve ambitious, measurable professional goals and support staff in doing the same.
• Experience working with confidential and sensitive information and issues.
• Ability to build strong professional relationships based on integrity, respect and trust.

• Two years’ work experience with a public education labor union including labor relations, organizing, bargaining, professional issues and member rights.

• Demonstrated leadership in a local or state union role, including work as a union staff member.
• Experience collaborating with staff or colleagues to set goals, hold one another accountable to goals and grow professionally.
• Experience supervising staff in a union, campaign or community organizing context.
• Experience in bargaining, organizing and member rights advocacy.
• Experience in the development and implementation of training for adult learners.
• Experience developing and implementing long-term organizing and leadership development campaigns in a union or community organizing context.

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