SEIU (Service Employees International Union)

Job Title: Director of Organizing Campaigns

Salary: $162,520

Grade: MGT – Grade I

Location: Flexible (Remote or Washington, DC/HQ)

Organization Overview: We are the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a union of about 2 million diverse members in healthcare, the public sector, and property services. We believe in and fight for our Vision for a Just Society: where all workers are valued and all people respected, no matter where we come from or what color we are; where all families and communities can thrive; and where we leave a better and more equitable world for generations to come. We are an anti-racist union determined to check corporate power and uproot structural racism through unions, worker power, collective action, and government, legislative, and political action. We fight for Unions for All and a Government that Works for All so that all of us, across race and place, can have power together in unions and participate fully in our democracy.

Purpose: The Director of Organizing Campaigns oversees SEIU’s most critical organizing efforts, driving the union’s mission to empower workers and grow our movement. This role stewards SEIU’s ambitious goal to organize one million new members over the next decade and advance Unions for All. The Director provides strategic leadership for the Organizing Hub, ensuring that every campaign—across sectors and geographies—reflects SEIU’s values, builds worker power, and delivers measurable results. Working closely with SEIU officers, local union leaders, and senior staff, the Director ensures alignment, accountability, and excellence in all organizing work to realize SEIU’s visions.

Primary Responsibilities: (Any one position may not include all of the specific duties and responsibilities listed. Examples provide a general summary of the work required and should not be treated as a total and complete list of expected duties to be performed by employees in the classification.)

Strategic Integration and Leadership

• Provide overall strategic direction and leadership for SEIU’s national organizing campaigns, ensuring full alignment with SEIU’s long-term vision and goals.
• Drive cross-campaign coordination to ensure organizing strategies and campaign efforts operate at the highest level of effectiveness and alignment.
• Foster collaboration among campaign areas to ensure seamless coordination, shared learning, and consistent standards of excellence across all organizing work.
• Serve as a key thought partner to the Organizing Hub Director, other senior staff and officers in shaping national organizing priorities, metrics, and resource allocation.

Program Oversight and Accountability

• Work in collaboration with the senior Organizing Hub team to build a culture of learning and accountability, ensuring ARO practices, community and collaboration are embedded in and across all campaign elements.
• Provide oversight and guidance to ensure campaigns are aligned with SEIU’s strategic priorities, applying best practices and shared learning across campaigns.
• Drive the development and impact of SEIU’s organizing campaigns by providing strategic guidance, coaching, and partnership; deepening industry expertise; and aligning resources across the union to advance SEIU’s Unions for All and convention goals.
• Collaborate with the other members of the senior Organizing Hub team to establish systems of accountability and performance measurements to assess impact, progress, and alignment with strategic objectives.

Leader and Ally Engagement

• In collaboration with the Organizing Hub Director, manage and lead on developing internal political buy-in among SEIU local union leaders around campaign strategy, resource allocation, and employer engagement approaches
• Coordinate with the other International Union hubs and geographic teams as well as SEIU local unions to strengthen organizing capacity, share resources, and ensure consistent alignment with national direction.
• Represent the Organizing Hub and SEIU on national committees, coalitions, and working groups to advance organizing innovation and movement alignment as applicableCollaborate closely with national departments, local unions, and allies to align organizing work with political, legislative, and racial justice priorities.

Direction and Decision Making: This position reports to the Organizing Hub Director and works independently.

Education and Experience:

• 10–12 years of progressively responsible experience in union, labor, or social justice organizing, including at least 5 years of senior management experience.
• Proven ability to lead multiple directors, large teams, and complex organizing portfolios across regions or industries.
• Demonstrated success in program design, strategic planning, employer engagement strategy, and campaign execution at a national or international scale.
• Extensive experience in handling politically sensitive situations (internal and external.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration abilities, with the capacity to work across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Deep commitment to racial justice and the labor movement’s mission to build power for all working people.
• Demonstrated experience managing budgets, supervising staff, and overseeing logistics in a complex, mission-driven environment.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proven commitment to SEIU's values of justice and solidarity.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across departments and levels of the organization.
• Excellent strategic planning skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a timely manner and keep track of a variety of projects.
• Ability to analyze issues, define problems and propose creative solutions in political and legislative environments.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills, and ability to make presentations, plan and develop materials and conferences (including leadership and staff training).
• Ability to inspire confidence in others with personal authority, leadership skills and a collegial work style.

Physical Requirements: Must have the ability to work in an office (or similar) setting with or without reasonable accommodation. Travel in addition to long and extended work hours are required.

Benefits: SEIU staff enjoy excellent employer-sponsored benefits to include comprehensive health benefits (major medical, dental and vision coverage) for employees and eligible dependents; domestic partner benefits; competitive compensation; generous holiday and vacation leave policies; and both a pension retirement plan and a 401(k)retirement savings plan.