RESEARCHER AND REPRESENTATIVE

Job Announcement
Researcher and Representative
Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Propose, develop, and update fact sheets and economic reports on subjects of interest to unions representing professional and technical employees
• Assist in recruiting and supervising graduate student interns
• Reach out to professional associations for DPE and its affiliated unions: work with association committees, develop programs and policies, create and disseminate materials

Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Speak in public and moderate programs
• Write talking points, flyers, notices, introductions, letters, and articles
• Represent DPE at meetings
• Monitor press, academic and other documents for developments affecting professional and technical workers
• Special projects as needed

Qualifications:

• Evidence of strong analytical, writing, editing, and speaking skills
• Demonstrated ability to present complex information clearly in varied written and oral formats
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate inside and outside an organization
• Willingness to undertake occasional travel
• Tact, discretion, and diplomacy
• Familiarity with organized labor
• Experience working on labor rights, human rights, or social justice issues
• Prefer master’s or professional degree in economics, labor relations, sociology, or other relevant discipline

Employment Terms:
Salary depends on experience; outstanding union benefits; start date negotiable; position reports to President and Executive Director and assists in overseeing work of graduate student interns; with experience and accomplishment, potential for expanded responsibilities; small collegial staff in high visibility setting

About DPE:
DPE is a coalition of 24 national unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO that represent over four million professional and technical employees. The mission of DPE is to assist its affiliated unions to achieve their objectives on behalf of professional and technical workers. DPE unions include professionals in over three hundred occupations in sectors that include health care and education; science, engineering and technology; journalism, entertainment and the arts; and public administration. DPE is the largest association of professional and technical workers in the U.S. For additional information, see the DPE website, www.dpeaflcio.org.

To Apply:
Applicants should submit a cover letter, résumé, brief writing sample, and contact information for three references to:

Ms. Marcie Lawrence
Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
7th Floor
815 Sixteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006

or via email to mlawrence@dpeaflcio.org.

Women and people of color are especially encouraged to apply. 

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