South East Region - UNISON

UNISON

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South East, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As a Regional Organiser, you will:

Provide leadership to a group of branches within a locality, service group or work area to ensure that branches have the strongest possible workplace organisation.
Support, guide and develop branches and activists through major periods of change in the delivery of public services.
Build branch organisation and performance, identifying training and development needs of activists and providing ongoing support through coaching and mentoring of stewards and branch officers.
Lead collective negotiations across the range of sectors that UNISON organises across, at local, regional, or national level.
Represent members individually and collectively, assisting branches in developing systems and processes for managing and undertaking their casework effectively.
Manage a small team of area and/or local organisers or administrative.

The Person
***You will have skills and experience that include: - Demonstrable leadership and motivational skills.

A proven track record of using initiative and independence over a broad area of activity.
Considerable knowledge of industrial relations and a track record of high level negotiation and representation.
Experience of advocacy in difficult situations.
Ability to develop strategies, plans and solutions to solve complex problems.
Ability to work on and manage projects.
Highly developed interpersonal skills and experience of influencing people at all levels.

While our Regional Organisers are regionally based, they are required to work in any team or location across the region.

Work will include strategic responsibility for work with branches and employers, leading negotiations and undertaking complex casework including representation at final stage appeals.

The Regional Organiser will manage a small team of organising staff and oversee the development and delivery of projects with branches and employers to build UNISON organisation and implement the unions bargaining and organising strategies.