DIRECTOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, CONTRACTS DEPARTMENT

SEIU Local 1000 is seeking a skilled and innovative Director of Contracts or Collective Bargaining who combines a big-picture outlook with a mastery of details.   If you’re a fierce negotiator, a tireless advocate for the rank-and-file, and excel at both strategy and tactics, please apply. The ideal candidate will be experienced in managing a team of dedicated labor representatives, a volunteer bargaining team and expertly coordinating negotiations.

We represent 95,000 California state employees in nine different bargaining units.   We negotiate and enforce a long, complex contract that ensures good working conditions, fair wages and secure health care and retirement benefits.   We require a thorough knowledge of collective bargaining, as well as of the roles, structures, policies and procedures of California’s State Personnel Board, the Department of Personnel Administration, and individual state departments.

JOB DUTIES

• Act as spokesperson during collective bargaining.
• Coordinate actions of master table bargaining, as well as activities of nine individual bargaining units 
• Coordinate activities for approximately 150 meet and confer negotiating teams 
• Train negotiating team members
• Supervise four to seven senior union representatives and three administrative support staff

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5 years experience negotiating contracts, including experience as chief spokesperson, writing contract language, costing and coordinating activities for multiple bargaining units.
• 3 years experience managing staff, assignments, projects and timelines.
• Experience with mediation, arbitration and hearings preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in appropriate field required.  
• Masters degree in administration or JD preferred