Senior Labor Leadership Initiatives Associate, Labor Leadership Initiatives - HYBRID

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.

We also offer a set of customized on-site trainings and public offerings focused on best practices in management and supervision in a union context. This set of programs – Managing with Labor's Values – is in high demand and serves a distinct and important purpose in the labor movement, which is to provide working class labor movement leadership with access to management skills and tools that they don't receive anywhere else.

Our programs also work directly with stakeholder organizations to bring the curricula and approach into individual unions and worker organizations.

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 Managing with Labor's Values. The work includes marketing, liaising with clients, tailoring the curriculum for on-site trainings, recruitment for public offerings, and coordination / facilitation of the retreats themselves. The Senior Extension Associate in this position may also identify gaps in the curriculum and develop new modules that speak to the needs of our core stakeholders. Additionally, this position may develop new public offerings focused on member engagement and building engaged contract campaigns, initially to be offered as public programs but also made available for on-site customized training. These public offerings are envisioned to be part of a larger concentration on labor studies with the goal of serving rank and file union leaders across New York State. This position will have strong project management, budget management, and fundraising skills and be able to manage multiple projects on different timelines, with special attention to maintaining connection to our key stakeholder base. 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 the Cornell ILR's Labor Leadership Initiatives to help them increase the power and effectiveness of their organization.

Specific Responsibilities include :

• Oversee all aspects of Managing with Labor's Values : recruitment, curriculum, client relationships, facilitation, follow-up.
• Offer Managing with Labor's Values at least twice yearly in NYC, and once a year in an upstate location.
• Develop and deliver additional public-facing programs as part of the labor studies certificate program, focused on member engagement and engaged contract campaigns.
• Build out specialized and new organizational change curriculum for our retreats and / or offer new programs leading organizational change within unions to existing stakeholders.
• 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.

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.

What we need :

You will be a top candidate with our preferred qualifications :

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

To Apply :

Interested parties should submit a vita and letter of application describing qualifications and research agenda, teaching / training experience, and diversity & inclusion statement.

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

Employment Assistance :

For general questions about the position or the application process, please contact the Recruiter listed in the job posting or email mycareer@cornell.edu.

If you require an accommodation for a disability in order to complete an employment application or to participate in the recruiting process, you are encouraged to contact Cornell University's Office of Institutional Equity and Title IX at voice (607) 255-2242, or email atequity@cornell.edu.

Cornell University embraces diversity and seeks candidates who will contribute to a climate that supports students, faculty, and staff to all identities and backgrounds. We encourage individuals from underrepresented and / or marginalized identities to apply.

J-18808-Ljbffr