Assistant Director for Government Relations Campaigns

Job Category
:
Non-Bargaining Salary

Requisition Number
: ASSIS
003503

• Posted :
  October 16, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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SEIU
-HQ
1800 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036, USA

SEIU
-HQ
1800 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036, USA

SEIU (Service Employees International Union)

JOB TITLE: Assistant Director for Government Relations Campaigns GRADE
: MGT F

ANNUAL SALARY
: $

LOCATION
:
Washington, DC HQ

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW: We are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union of about 2 million diverse members in healthcare, the public sector, and property services. We believe in and fight for our Vision for a Just Society: where all workers are valued and all people respected, no matter where we come from or what color we are; where all families and communities can thrive;

and where we leave a better and more equitable world for generations to come. We are an anti-racist union determined to check corporate power and uproot structural racism through unions, worker power, collective action, and government, legislative, and political action. We fight for Unions for All and a Government that Works for All so that all of us, across race and place, can have power together in unions and participate fully in our democracy.

PURPOSE: The Assistant Director for Government Relations (GR) Campaigns plays a pivotal role in driving the daily execution of SEIU’s legislative and governing agenda, ensuring that the Government Relations (GR) department systematically builds power for working people. Reporting to the Deputy Director of Government Relations, the Assistant Director assists in designing and coordinating both offensive and defensive campaigns across federal, state, and local levels to advance a transformative, racial-justice-rooted pro-worker agenda.

This position is responsible for federal executive branch strategy and connecting daily legislative and executive branch work directly to SEIU’s priority organizing campaigns and long-term political and governing strategy.

• Work with the Director, Deputy Director, and department leaders to develop strategies, policies, proposals, and campaign plans that advance SEIU’s legislative, governing, and organizing priorities.
• Coordinate day-to-day campaign work across Government Relations teams, SEIU hubs, organizing campaigns, state councils, and local unions.
• Develop and coordinate federal executive branch strategy and support offensive and defensive legislative and executive branch campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels, in consultation with the Director and Deputy Director.
• Track campaign activities, milestones, and results; identify gaps, delays, and decisions requiring leadership attention; and recommend adjustments.
• Prepare campaign materials, progress reports, and concise briefings and talking points that explain priorities, results, and next steps to department leadership, International Officers, and local union leaders.
• Present campaign updates in department meetings, connect work across teams, and follow up on agreed actions and commitments.
• Coordinate digital, field, and legislative advocacy activities, including briefings with elected officials and staff, member outreach, and campaign mobilization, in partnership with relevant teams.
• Develop advocacy research, campaign toolkits, policy materials, and strategic communications, and support planning and materials development for leadership and staff trainings and conferences.
• Maintain two-way communication with state councils and local unions to incorporate their priorities into department work and share information about campaign progress and outcomes.
• Build and maintain relationships with…