Hybrid Regional UniServ Staff-Option 1 bei California Teachers Association

Application Requirement: Please submit a PDF of your portfolio.

General Description
The Inland Empire UniServ is composed of the San Bernardino Teachers Association (SBTA) and the San Bernardino Community College District Teachers Association (SBCCDTA). The UniServ office houses two Regional UniServ staff and two Associate staff. SBTA and SBCCDTA are working to build a K-16 partnership by supporting each other on common ground issues in politics, bargaining, and teaching and learning.

SBTA represents the 3,000 non-management certificated employees of the San Bernardino City Unified School District, which is the eighth largest unified school district in California. The district is considered a “Large Urban” with a 92% unduplicated count student population. SBTA is working collaboratively with the district to assist the unit members in these schools through a Joint District and Association collaborative based on improving student, school and district success. While supporting these efforts, SBTA maintains a strong advocacy program to improve the salary and benefits of its members and to ensure their fair treatment and due process rights.

SBCCDTA represents all academic instructors, regular and hourly, counselors, nurses and department chairpersons working in the San Bernardino Valley Community College District. The membership potential for the unit is approximately nine hundred members, with SBCCDTA representing approximately 223 full-time and 857 part-time staff.  SBCCDTA’s organizing program includes membership recruitment training, organizational development training and budget financial officer training. The association continues to negotiate salary and benefit increases for its members as well as using the rights of the Educational Employment Relations Act (EERA) to protect its members and ensure fair treatment and due process for all.

This position requires extensive experience and abilities with representational, organizational, political, community engagement and strong bargaining skills along. The staff person needs to interface effectively across the locals while working collaboratively with other staff leaders and members to promote and build an organizing culture. In addition, assisting locals with the support necessary to build organizational capacity among the membership will be a high priority.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility is to serve as an organizer that develops strong leaders who advocate for themselves, their students and public education.
• Responsibility to assist recruiting and supporting members to lead the union and profession through strategic campaigns that promote the mission of CTA and local affiliates.
• Responsibility to support leaders in developing and implementing strategic organizing plans and to train members and leaders on all aspects of organizing, including the relationship between organizing and power and the importance and effectiveness of relational organizing based one-on-one and small group meetings.
• Responsibility to support and organize local leaders in membership recruitment, retention and engagement campaigns.
• Responsibility to foster coalitions between local chapters, community organizations, other labor unions and organizations.
• Serve as staff resource to local leaders on local programs, including negotiations, contract maintenance, political campaigns and influencing elected officials, organizational capacity building and communication systems, including electronic systems.
• Responsibility to promote and secure the implementation of CTA policies and programs.
• Represent the local chapter's position and policies to lay and professional groups.
• Performs other appropriate duties as assigned.

Qualifications - Minimum Required

• Bachelor's or higher degree preferred.
• Experience with and broad understanding of labor organizations and/or education-related associations/programs and services at local, state and national levels.
• Demonstrated organizing, negotiating and coordinating skills necessary to recruit members and potential members and successfully complete complex group projects and activities.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with members, leaders, professional groups and/or labor organizations, and staff colleagues.
• Deep understanding of the issues facing the public schools and the education profession.
• Demonstrated support for racial, social, and economic justice; worker's rights; and a well-funded public education system.
• Adaptable and flexible. Able to adjust seamlessly and effectively to changing factors and conditions that impact CTA campaigns, projects and other union programs.
• Experience in fast-paced campaigns situations, including contract campaigns, strikes and political campaigns.
• Experience in organizing and campaigning, with relentless drive to proactively surpass campaign/program goals under pressure and with the tenacity to tackle challenges head-on in a dynamic and rapidly changing environment.
• Computer proficiency and the ability to learn and use the Association's software programs.
• Ability to communicate clearly, verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work and travel regularly, including evenings and weekends.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid California driver’s license.

* This position is in a bargaining unit represented by CSO. Salaries are established by a collective bargaining agreement. Step placement is also determined by the CTA/CSO Agreement.