Employment Opportunities

 

Staff Organizer (Half-Time)

UIC United Faculty seeks a half-time Staff Organizer. Starting date is negotiable, but no later than January 7, 2019.

 

University of Illinois at Chicago United Faculty (AFT/IFT/AAUP Local 6456) represents approximately 1100 full-time tenure-track (TT) and non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty members across 11 colleges and 60+ departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago. We’re eager to collaborate with a hard-working, imaginative organizer to help build our union.

 

Duties

  • build membership (office visits, one-on-one conversations)
  • identify and recruit activists and leaders
  • mobilize members for job actions

 

Required Experience

  • superior oral communication skills

 

Preferred Experience

  • experience working as an organizer
  • experience as a higher education instructor and/or union member
  • experience in higher education organizing

 

Salary commensurate with experience; includes benefits.

Consideration of applications will begin November 5, and continue until a hire is made.

 

To Apply

Please send résumé to uicunitedfaculty@gmail.com.

Use the Subject Line “Staff Organizer”

UIC United Faculty is an Equal Opportunity Employer.