ONLINE CAMPAIGNER

Location: Oakland or Los Angeles
Department: Communications

Description: With 150,000 members, SEIU UHW is the largest and fastest growing hospital and healthcare union in the Western United States. We represent workers in every aspect of the industry, including hospitals, clinics, homecare and nursing homes. We are committed to building a progressive, democratic labor movement and to achieving high quality healthcare for all.

SEIU United Healthcare Workers - West is seeking a versatile, experienced online campaigner to join our 12-person communications team to:

• Develop and implement on-line organizing campaign strategy, tools and activities that leverage cutting edge online technologies to support offline organizing and mobilization.
• Expand current internet and web capabilities to make us a leader in online activism.
• Develop and implement program to encourage member online activism.
• Our ideal candidate is a strong writer, has solid strategic thinking skills, is passionate about social justice, is willing to work hard and can balance competing demands and deadlines. This candidate must be equally adept at creating persuasive and editorial messaging.

Responsibilities:

• Maximize the integration of online and offline organizing activities to better achieve our goals, launch campaign initiatives, evaluate success, and modify strategy to improve effectiveness
• Research, write, edit and distribute compelling action alerts that are coherent with broader campaign messaging.
  Coordinate extensively with campaign teams, webmaster, videographer and field staff.
• Ability to monitor and analyze site traffic, leading to more targeted online outreach and maximum public visibility.
• Monitor online conversations about key issues and identify opportunities for engagement
• Stay on top of emerging online organizing tools
• Assist in the development of a member blogger program

SEIU UHW is an affirmative action employer. Women and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.

Qualifications:

• A strong commitment to social justice and the goals and principles of the labor movement.
• A BA/BS in a related field (such as journalism, communications, computer science or political science) and at least 2 years of experience in online communications and organizing
• Demonstrated effectiveness using blogs, social networking, viral marketing, internet video distribution, email action alerts, online petitions and other online organizing tools.
• Excellent writing, speaking, listening, organizational and relationship building skills
• The ability to strategize and implement plans in the context of a campaign.
• Self starter, strong work ethic, dynamic and ability to thrive in an unstructured environment
• Ability to work with a team, drive projects to completion, and handle multiple projects and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated skills in managing quantitative data
• Political and/or other campaign experience highly desirable
• General computer literacy, proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Access.
• Willingness to work long, irregular hours, sometimes including weekends and evenings.

Submission Instructions:

Send résumé, cover letter and 2 writing samples recruiter@seiu-uhw.org