Fuse Washington

Campaign Manager, Initiative 1029

A coalition of advocates, long-term care workers, employers, and workforce development experts has launched an initiative campaign to improve training for long-term care workers. Washington’s long-term care workforce is inadequately trained. The majority of home and community based long-term care workers – who provide life-sustaining care for our State’s vulnerable seniors and persons with disabilities – are required to have 34 hours of training and no certification. Compare these low training standards with Washington State’s standards for hairdressers, manicurists and dog masseurs – 1,000, 500 and 300 hours of training and certification respectively. Long-term care workers need better training to provide for increasingly complex care needs in home and community based settings. The coalition seeks a statewide campaign manager to run the day-to-day campaign to pass I-1029.

For more information on the initiative see www.yeson1029.org.

Responsibilities: Duties typically provided by campaign managers include scheduling, issue and event research, coordination of campaign events, advance work related to speaker’s bureaus and other public appearances, monitoring of the campaign cell phone and answering messages, correspondence, public speaking, distribution of literature, recruiting of volunteers and event hosts, and coalition outreach.

Skills: This work requires significant discretion and independent judgment, supervision of volunteers, evaluation and acceptance or rejection of speaking engagement requests, and dialogue and coordination with campaign strategists, coalition partners, and volunteers. Some campaign experience preferred.

In addition to possessing good judgment and using discretion, the ideal applicant will be detail-oriented and highly organized.

Compensation: $4000 – 5000/month, DOE.

Apply: Send cover letter, resume, and references to jobs@seiu775.org