The Senior Lead Researcher is a senior level position responsible for all aspects of targeted research supporting Solidarity Center programs primarily focused on organizing and collective bargaining. The Senior Lead Researcher will help build the capacity of the Solidarity Center's partner unions through strategic research and campaign implementation. To be successful the Senior Lead Researcher must provide advice, guidance training and mentoring to the Solidarity Center's union partners at the national and local levels. This individual will prepare and exchange information and coordinate activities with field offices, other departments, the AFL-CIO and its affiliates and other allied worker rights organizations. They will produce well-written program reports and evaluations, in addition to monitoring programs to meet budget targets and programmatic results.
Responsibilities:
• Plan, coordinate and conduct strategic research to support organizing and collective bargaining including data collection, analysis, and report writing
• Incorporate research into overall campaign planning, including worker, community and strategic elements
• Ensure accurate and rigorous methodology for quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
• Train and mentor partners and field staff on research and campaign development and implementation
• Assist organizing teams to develop and implement tactics to support campaign strategies
• Track market and industry trends and economic indicators globally, regionally and nationally
• Provide international and country specific sectoral mapping
• Seek and evaluate new sources of information
• Coordinate with AFL-CIO and its affiliated union
• Coordinate research projects with other academic and community researchers
• Ensure projects stay within designated budgets and timeline, produce written materials for internal and public use
Job Qualifications:
• At least seven recent years of experience as a lead researcher for a union or worker rights organization
• Experience leading staff in research and campaign implantation
• Bachelor's degree in political science, international relations, labor relations or related field
• Passionate commitment to social, economic and racial justice
• Effective time management skills, including prioritizing and managing multiple tasks, and demonstrated experience in personal work plans and goals.
• Ability to work effectively in a wide variety of cultures and in politically sensitive environments
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work well in a collaborative environment and travel on a regular basis as needed, and for extended periods of time.
Highly desirable qualities:
• Experience in international research and campaign implementation
• Experience in campaign research in non-traditional workplaces
• Database experience, knowledge of SQL or other data manipulation/programming skills, screen scraping and ArcGIS
• Experience in union, community or social movement organizing
• Fluency in foreign language(s)
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