About this job
The National Officer’s role is to: act as the secretary to the national WET service Group Executive; provide strategic leadership on recruitment and organising strategies; lead national collective bargaining, and conduct negotiations with employers, working in partnership with lay activists; co-ordinate and support bargaining that is conducted at other levels of the union within WET; provide policy advice and guidance to the union; provide leadership, support and guidance to national committees, regions and branches; research and write policy papers; represent the union with outside organisations; deal with the media.
Your work will help shape our organisation at many levels, including leadership support across our regions and branches. Your influence won’t end there, as you’ll also negotiate with national employers, initiate, organise and undertake campaign activities and you’ll have a positive impact on areas as diverse as recruitment and retention, research and European initiatives.
You will need to demonstrate trade union recruitment, organising and bargaining knowledge and experience. You will be able to prioritise and organise your work effectively. You will have strong research and analytical skills and be able to interpret and present financial and statistical data. You will have excellent written and oral communication skills and will be able to use these to write reports, bulletins and newsletters, to make presentations to committees and large and small audiences and to be proficient in dealing with the media.
Travel across the UK with occasional overnight stays will be required.
How to apply
To apply for this opportunity, please download and complete the General application form (under “Resources”)
See job description and person specification (under “Documents”).
Please send 4 copies of your completed application form to Human Resources, UNISON, 130 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AY quoting the ref no: BNE/7.
Completed application forms must be received by no later than Tuesday 28 June 2016.
Interviews will be held on 18 & 19 July 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.
