The Labor Center is Seeking a New Labor Educator! All applications must be made through the Seattle Community College Employee Services Division at seattlecolleges.edu/HR/ The position will open until August 16th. Please circulate this announcement to anyone you think would be interested. If you want the job announcement in a separate document you can find one at our website georgetown.southseattle.edu/LERC/whoweare.aspx Position Description The Labor Educator will work with Labor Center staff to plan and implement trainings and workshops with unions, community organizations, and campus programs. These trainings and workshops will provide education and skills development for and about workers and their organizations. Some of the workshops the Labor Educator may be asked to facilitate include classes about basic workplace rights, economics, for union stewards, on collective bargaining, leadership and communication, immigrant workers, women workers, young workers, community-labor alliances, and organizing. The Labor Educator will do strategic outreach to the labor community to develop programs, and be a resource to faculty and staff within the Seattle Community Colleges. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS • Teaching and public speaking: Presenting materials about work, workers, and their organizations in workshop and classroom settings. • Outreach: Communicating with constituencies regarding programs via variety of communication technologies and in person. • Strategic Program Development and Coordination: Working with Labor Center staff and allies to develop programs and recruit participants. • Research: Gathering information about key issues and events affecting work, workers, and the economy to use in trainings and to provide to constituencies as needed. • Logistics and administrative support for Center functions: Working with Center and College staff to track and maintain the Center’s resources and make them accessible to our constituencies. • Resource for faculty and students: Working with campus programs and instructors to incorporate the specialized knowledge and practices of Labor Education into existing College settings. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS • Bachelor’s Degree AND a minimum of three years’ experience in union and/or labor education activities, OR 5 years of union and/or labor education experience. Candidates are encouraged to emphasize specializations they may have in particular skill areas such as collective bargaining, contract enforcement, union management, labor law, or strategic research, and/or particular content areas such as working women, immigrant workers, young workers, workers of color, the building and construction trades, or global labor. Applicants will be required to do a brief teaching demonstration as part of the interview.
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:08:37 +0000
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