Sub-regional Secretary (SRS), North America

Public Services International is a Global Union Federation of more than 700 trade unions representing 30 million workers in 154 countries.

We bring their voices to the UN, ILO, WHO and other regional and global organisations. We defend trade union and workers’ rights and fight for universal access to quality public services.

PSI champions labour and human rights, advocates for social justice and promotes universal access to quality public services. PSI works with the United Nations system and in partnership with labour, civil society and other organisations. PSI has three Regional Hubs and offices in 15 countries globally.

We are looking for a Sub-Regional Secretary for North America responsible for implementing PSI’s policies and activities in Canada and the United States to achieve PSI’s political objectives in accordance with the Program of Action and Constitution and in close collaboration with PSI affiliated unions.

Key responsibilities:

Regional strategy and activities

• Develop and implement the regional strategy for implementation of PSI’s Programme of Action in North America with a focus on increasing affiliate engagement and growth.
• Work with affiliates to co-ordinate and implement PSI activities, mobilise and co-ordinate affiliate actions in PSI priority areas including sector, trade union rights and cross cutting work.
• Represent PSI in the subregion and keep the Regional Secretary, General Secretary and relevant PSI officers informed of developments in the sub-region.
• Advocate, and support affiliates to advocate, for PSI positions to relevant national, regional and international decision makers.
• Lead the establishment and implementation of the sub regional new affiliates growth plan in coordination with the regional plan.
• Support PSI constitutional and non-constitutional meetings including the sub-regional advisory and sub-regional women’s committees.
• Help coordinate and participate in Regional and Global meetings (including international travel) and contribute to regional and global work.
• Initiate, develop, organise and where necessary deliver relevant trade union training.
• Support PSI affiliates in the sub region in PSI activity outside the region.

Communication and representation

• Support PSIs communications strategy in the sub region including production of periodic updates to affiliates in the sub region, and providing content for PSIs global publications about the sub region.
• Maintain good relations with GUF’s, non-affiliated unions, national union centres, civil society organisations, funding organisations and other allies relevant to the sub region.
• Strength the current engagements and initiate new ones with international organizations, specifically the United Nations and its agencies located in New York and the international financial organizations in Washington DC.

Finance Management and Administration

• Manage the operation, activities and finances of the sub-regional office, including the occasional supervision of projects and staff in the subregion, where required.
• Overall the responsibility for retention and recruitment of member organizations. For example, the nurses’ union in Canada, among others.

The ideal candidate will have experience in the trade union movement and/or public sector with broad knowledge of the region’s political issues preferably with a focus on public sector issues.

We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability.

The position will be based either in Canada or USA.

Full job description: https://publicservices.international/resources/page/jobs/current-positions?id=9896&lang=en