About this job
3 Area Fighting Fund Organisers fulltime based Edinburgh/Glasgow
Salary £35,213 pa Ref: R7/FF32, R7/FF33, R7/FF34
1 Area Fighting Fund Organiser – based Western Isles (21 hrs per week) Salary £35,231 pro rata. Ref: R7/FF35
1 Local Fighting Fund Organiser – Glasgow/ Lanarkshire
Salary £26,574 pa Ref: R7/FF36
This is an exciting opportunity to join the UNISON Scotland Organising Team. Our public services are under major threat. Our members are working under extreme pressure and UNISON is actively campaigning for services and jobs. We are seeking a further tranche of Campaign Organisers to recruit, organise and work on a range of time-defined projects to support our campaign.
Ability to travel will be a requirement of all posts and you will require to live within reasonable distance of location that post is based.
You will bring your experience and skills to assist us to recruit, organise and drive forward campaigning work within the designated area across the region. To undertake this role you must be a committed trade unionist with proven organising, campaigning, administrative skills and excellent IT and communication skills.
Requirements as detailed above plus skills on individual representation/routine case work and local negotiations also required.
How to apply
To apply for this opportunity, please download a pack from the right hand side of the main Jobs at UNISON page, (please complete the Area Organiser /Local Organiser application form as only this form will be accepted. Please complete the monitoring forms)
Please send completed forms together with Recruitment and Disability Monitoring Forms to Mike Kirby, Scottish Secretary, UNISON House, 14 West Campbell Street, Glasgow, G2 6RX.
UNISON activists applying for any post as a secondment opportunity must ensure, in advance, that confirmed arrangements and agreement with their employer are in place.
The closing date for applications Friday 27 May 2016
Short listed candidates will be advised by Friday 3 June 2016
Assessment Centres will take place in Edinburgh
Area Fighting Fund Organiser on Monday 13 June 2016
Local Fighting Fund Organiser on Friday 17 June 2016
Successful candidates will be invited back for interview on Tuesday 28 June 2016
About UNISON
UNISON is the UK’s leading public services trade union, with over 1.3 million members working in the public sector, private, voluntary and community sectors and in the energy services. We employ approximately 1,200 staff, with around 370 at our national centre in Euston in central London and the remainder in our 12 regions across the UK, including Northern Ireland.
UNISON is a dynamic, progressive union, committed to equality. We encourage men and women of all ages, Black and minority ethnic groups, disabled people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people to work with us.
