Labor Leadership Programs Associate

This position is located in New York, NY, within the ILR School located at 570 Lexington Ave New York, NY 10022, or may 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 a Labor Leadership Programs Associate - 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 position is focused on supporting the New York State Union Leadership Institute, in partnership with the ULI Director. The leadership development associate will oversee recruitment and logistics and serve as an anchor on the facilitation team for our New York State retreat-based leadership program. Responsibilities include coordinating retreats, teaching current curriculum, and expanding curriculum offerings by researching and developing new modules, maintaining relationships with key union leadership stakeholders and providing tailored organizational and leadership development support to stakeholder organizations. 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 Worker Institute to help them increase the power and effectiveness of their organization.

Specific responsibilities include:

• In partnership with the ULI director, oversee recruitment, enrollment and logistics for the NYS Union Leadership Institute, and serve on the facilitation team for each of its three 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 in unions to our program stakeholders.
• Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in new and existing leadership & organizational development offerings; work with our existing base of contracted consultants and Worker Institute staff to establish our niche in offering specific and targeted DEI programs to the labor movement.
• Play a strong role in at least one other retreat series 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.

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 successful performance, 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).
• Minimum three 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.
• 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.

You will be a top candidate with our preferred qualifications:

• Six or more years of experience in the labor movement, as staff or elected leader in a union or worker organization.
• 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.).
• Bilingual Spanish/English or in another set of languages pertinent to worker organizing in New York state.

ILR School Outreach appreciates employees by providing the opportunity for a 3:2 campus-to-home hybrid schedule.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Salary $79,000 to $87,000 commensurate with rank, experience, qualifications, and location.

Cornell appreciates employees with great rewards & benefits:

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:

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

Application materials should be submitted through Academic Jobs Online: http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/program/30208

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 may 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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