Senior Labor Leadership Initiatives Associate, Labor Leadership Initiatives - HYBRID

This position is located in New York, NY, within the ILR School located at 570 Lexington Ave New York, NY 10022, or can be based remotely. The position requires significant ability to travel for retreats and tailored/customized union programs.

The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University has an immediate opening for Senior Labor Leadership Initiatives Associate - Senior Extension Associate in the Labor Leadership Initiatives (LLI) in the NYC Extension/Outreach Division.

Our Team:
Over 20 years ago, Cornell ILR founded the New York State Union Leadership Institute (ULI), a powerful retreat-based program offered in conjunction with the NY State AFL-CIO. This yearly cohort program provides support to unions by training staff and leaders to be more powerful and effective in their work. Many of New York State's union leaders attribute their ability to leverage increased power and effectiveness - including reaching the highest-level staff and elected positions - to their participation in the ULI earlier in their careers. In 2013, a sister program, the National Labor Leadership Initiative (NLLI), was created to provide a similar space and support for the highest-level national leaders of unions and worker organizations, followed by the creation of a Global Labor Leadership Initiative, offered in partnership with the Solidarity Center.

Our programs also work directly with stakeholder organizations to bring the curricula and approach into individual unions and worker organizations. To date, we have offered versions of the NLLI/ULI curriculum to staff and leaders at multiple unions across the US.

We are a growing and dynamic team, looking for people interested in building an innovative program with deep and meaningful impact on the labor movement.

What you will do:

This is a high-level position leading and working in partnership with New York State and national elected union leaders, staff, and leaders of worker organizations and community-organizing networks aligned with the labor movement. The leadership development associate will manage retreat-based leadership programs that bring together leaders from across the national labor movement as well as top-level leaders within specific unions. Responsibilities include leading retreats, developing appropriate agendas in consultation with leaders in the field, teaching current curriculum, expanding curriculum offerings by researching and developing new modules, maintaining relationships with the highest level of union leadership, and providing tailored organizational and leadership development support to stakeholder organizations. This position will have strong project management, budget management, and fundraising skills to direct multiple programs and lead teams consisting of, including staff and contracted consultants. As a skilled relationship manager, this associate will deepen our existing organizational relationships and bring new organizations into our programs. The labor leadership associate will also maintain a set of organizational development clients who rely on our leadership programs to help them increase the power and effectiveness of their organization.

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Oversee all aspects of two retreat series per year (a minimum of 6 weeklong sessions), including recruitment, curriculum, managing the facilitation team, and supporting participants between retreats.
• Develop and deliver tailored organizational development offerings as needed by stakeholders of our leadership programs, including but not limited to strategic planning and staff/leader retreat facilitation.
• Build out specialized and new organizational change curriculum for our retreats and/or offer new programs leading organizational change within unions to existing stakeholders.
• Develop tailored curricula on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to supplement existing offerings; work with our existing base of contracted consultants and staff to establish our niche in offering specific and targeted DEI programs to the labor movement.
• Teach in other retreats and participate in existing organizational development contracts as needed.
• Develop and maintain program infrastructure, including fundraising, communications, and specialized program needs.
• Maintain a set of online offerings that draw from in-person curriculum.

Senior Extension Associate is an academic, full-time, non-tenure track, term position with an initial appointment through June 30, 2027. The position may be re-appointed based on recommendations by the appropriate Director and Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research, as well as available funding and work.

Learn more about the ILR School and LLI here:

ILR School http://www.ilr.cornell.edu

NYS Union Leadership Institute https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/union-leadership-institute

National Labor Leadership Initiative https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/national-labor-leadership-initiative

What we need:

• Master's degree in related subject matter expertise (industrial and labor relations, employment or labor law, human resources/management/business, organizational behavior/change, economics, workforce development, vocational rehabilitation, occupational medicine/workplace safety and health, education, diversity/inclusion).
• 7 - 10 years of experience in the labor movement, as staff or elected leader in a union or worker organization; experience working in multiple worker organizations preferred.
• Demonstrated practical experience applying organizational development to the labor movement - including strategic planning, internal organizational/leadership development and/or working with external clients.
• Significant experience with adult education, including but not limited to working in a union education program, training in principles of adult education and working with adult learners.
• Demonstrated ability to design participatory curriculum.
• Demonstrated relevant professional leadership and network development at the state, regional, national, and/or international areas in relevant professional, trade, policy, or public networks.
• Ability to travel frequently for retreats and tailored/customized union programs.
• Demonstrated relevant professional leadership and network development at the state, regional, national, and/or international areas in relevant professional, trade, policy, or public networks.
• Ability to travel frequently for retreats and tailored/customized union programs.

You will be a top candidate with our preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with two or more of the following functions: worker organizing, political organizing, policy/legislation, collective bargaining, representation, leadership development, coalition building.
• Certificate or other credential in organizational development.
• Experience with multiple unions or worker organizations.
• Experience with federated labor bodies, including national AFL-CIO, State AFL-CIO and/or Central Labor Council/Area Labor Federation.
• Minimum of one to three years demonstrated experience in project management (coordination among stakeholders, staff, contractors; managing budgets and logistics, etc.).
• Ability to lead or support diversity, equity, inclusion and justice work.

ILR School Outreach appreciates employees by providing the opportunity for a campus-to-home hybrid schedule.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Salary $110,000 to $125,000 commensurate with rank, experience, qualifications, and location.

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Cornell provides great benefits that include educational benefits, access to a plethora of wellness programs, employee discounts with local and national retail brands, health care options to choose from, generous paid leave provisions and superior retirement contributions.

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To Apply:

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Application materials should be submitted through Academic Jobs Online: http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29556

This is an academic, full-time, non-tenure track benefits eligible term opportunity located in New York, NY, within the Cornell University ILR School located at 570 Lexington Ave, or can be based remotely.

Pay Range:

Pay Ranges:

The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• Prior relevant work or industry experience.
• Education level to the extent education is relevant to the position.
• Academic Discipline
• Unique applicable skills.

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