NUHW
National Union of Healthcare Workers
 

Legislative Coordinator

Based in Emeryville and Sacramento, CA

 

The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) seeks a Legislative Coordinator to advance the union’s state and federal legislative and regulatory agenda, serve as a primary contact between the union and its allies and elected officials and their staff, and organize and represent the union in statewide coalitions. 

ABOUT NUHW
The National Union of Healthcare Workers is helping revitalize the labor movement with its commitment to worker empowerment and democratic ideals.

Founded in 2009, we have grown to represent more than 19,000 healthcare workers in hospitals, clinics, and county jails throughout California and Hawaii, including service, technical, professional, and home care workers, mental health clinicians, and nurses. NUHW members are leading the fight to improve patient care, raise living standards, and hold healthcare corporations accountable to their employees and the communities they serve. And NUHW-represented mental health clinicians are powerful advocates for ending the stigma surrounding mental illness and enforcing mental health parity rules so that patients get the treatment they need when they need it.

To learn more about NUHW and its values, see the video at NUHW.org/about.

Responsibilities
The Legislative Coordinator’s responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Monitor legislative proposals; identify and analyze those that intersect with NUHW’s policy priorities, brief NUHW leadership, and recommend appropriate action.
• Educate and provide regular written updates to NUHW leadership and political and field staff on the union’s policy priorities and ongoing legislative developments.
• Lead the scheduling and logistical planning for NUHW’s annual lobby day.
• Shepherd NUHW legislative proposals through the lawmaking process by:
• Identifying and securing authors and co-authors for NUHW-sponsored legislation;
• Assembling coalitions of community leaders, professional associations, other unions, and statewide and community-based organizations;
• Drafting letters of support, fact sheets, background documents, and policy memos;
• Lobbying elected representatives and ensuring successful committee and floor votes.
• Serve as the primary contact between NUHW and state elected officials and staff in Sacramento, federal elected officials and staff in Washington, D.C., and state and federal agency personnel to educate them about and mobilize support for the union’s policy priorities.
• Coordinate NUHW’s involvement in state and federal policy and legislative coalitions around health care, workers’ rights, and other issues.
• Hold elected representatives accountable by, among other things, developing legislative scorecards and other information on legislators’ performance.
• Supports the work of the union in various other ways as needed (staffing picket lines and public actions, assisting with organizing and contract bargaining, etc.).

Qualifications
Required:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to relate successfully to individuals of all races, nationalities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, income levels, educational backgrounds, and health care occupational groups.
• Five years or more successful prior experience as a legislative lobbyist, legislative staffer, or elected official, preferably with experience in grassroots lobbying, coalition building, and electoral work.
• Ability to develop a command of new and complex policy matters rapidly.
• Demonstrated ability to work long hours independently, under stress and tight timelines.
• Commitment to democratic unionist principles (member-led decision making and mass participation), and readiness to take on a wide breadth of assignments to build worker power.
• Proficiency in MS Office and Google Workspace applications and use of the Internet.
• Must have a car, driver license, adequate auto insurance, and a cell phone with email capability.

Preferred:

• Prior union experience and a basic knowledge of health care policy and public finance.
• Fluency in Spanish.

Compensation: Salary $123,492 plus $6,600 auto allowance; employer paid medical and dental benefits for employee and family; life insurance for employee; holidays, sick leave, vacation; HRA and FSA plans; 401(k) with 14% employer contribution.

How to Apply
Apply here: https://nuhw.org/career/ 

Put your beliefs and skills into action. Apply today and be part of making history!

NUHW is committed to staff diversity. We welcome qualified people of all backgrounds to apply.