Location: Region 7 & 8 (Seattle, Washington or Los Angeles, California)
Duration: Full-time position; posting closes when position is filled.
Vaccination Requirement: UFCW requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment, consistent with applicable law. Any requests or questions may be submitted to hrcovid@ufcw.org.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

The Senior Political Coordinator, in coordination with local unions, is responsible for building out electoral, legislative, fundraising and activist programs under the direction of the Director.
The Senior Political Coordinator also assesses candidate viability, priority races, and meets with potential candidates to ensure they understand UFCW’s issues in collaboration with local unions. This position is also assigned to work with locals on building out their electoral programs and legislative priorities.

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• Writes thorough state electoral plans for targeted local unions and races, as well as keeps up to date on competitive races in their assigned region to provide analysis on fundraising, polling, relevant campaign issues and endorsements.

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• Works closely with local unions on priorities including low-dollar fundraising, running member-to-member electoral and legislative campaigns, engaging in federal grassroots and grasstops legislative campaigns and other priorities as assigned.

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• Executes the International Union’s program priorities in their assigned region. Responsible for running a multifaceted program in multiple states that will include canvassing, worksite organizing, voter registration in collaboration with phone banking, and peer-to-peer texting and social media outreach. This encompasses building out a work management system in multiple states which allows for timely reporting and a field feedback loop.

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• Works with rank-and-file member organizers to run electoral programs in targeted states. Responsible for running well-organizing onboarding, regular team meetings, trainings and conducting one-on-one coaching to ensure member organizers are reaching program goals. Acts in a timely manner and uses discretion when dealing with a member organizer consistently not reaching goals or fulfilling program duties.

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• Responsible for keeping up to date on Federal campaign giving laws, as well as be a resource on state and local giving laws. Responds to fundraising requests from local unions in a time sensitive manner.

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• Develops, updates, and maintains state and local specific training materials that cover fundraising, electoral work and legislative work and coaches the local union political staff person to successfully run trainings, fundraising drives and regular fundraising orientations for new staff representatives from local unions. Responsible for customizing training to meet audience needs – local union staff, stewards, member organizers, and rank-and-file members. Responsible for making sure that legal information in presentations is accurate such as state voter registration laws and early vote laws.

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• Works with the Director and Legislative team to execute an endorsement process at the federal, state and local levels that involves viability assessments of races and candidates, candidate interviews, candidate questionnaires and where possible member, engagement in the endorsement process.

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• Develops briefing materials for local union presidents on the value of political giving and what is at stake in their state.

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• Represents the UFCW at in-state coalition tables from time to time. Manages these relationships with discretion and not undermine local union relationships. Responds to requests from candidate campaigns in a timely manner and ensure that the UFCW endorsement process is being followed.

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• Builds relationships with the local union political and legislative contacts and ensure they are up to date on any in-state developments the International Union is tracking.

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• Keeps up to date on new tactics and technologies that enables the UFCW to reach members using diverse tactics such as relational organizing, peer-to-peer texting, click to call tools, social media, worksite and door to door work and other outreach tactics. Responsible for specific technical tools in the UFCW toolbox and if they are not familiar with the tools, will undergo onboarding and will have expectations of technical tool administration.

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• Keeps an up-to-date sharable and assessable database of local union, political and coalition contacts.

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• Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time, at the UFCW’s discretion. UFCW employees function as a team and, occasionally, and on a temporary basis, employees may be required to perform tasks usually performed by others. This might occur if a team member is absent or unavailable to complete a project and the team is responsible for the deadline. Because employees are required to work as a team, you are required to step up and fill in for a team member who is absent or needs assistance from time to time.