Job Summary
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 10th May 2024
- Melbourne > CBD & Inner Suburbs Melbourne
Organising Works, a program to develop grass-roots leaders of tomorrow.
Everyday workers are given the confidence and encouragement to make a difference in their workplace. They achieve this through a strong network of workplace representatives and organising staff.
Organising Works is a training program developing new waves of union organisers. Organisers that help workers stand together, to stand proud and build a better future across Australia.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) is the peak union body representing almost 2 million workers and their families.
Since our creation in 1927, the ACTU has spearheaded some of the most fundamental workplace struggles in Australia’s history.
The ACTU’s role as a peak body is to encourage workers to join their union, be a national voice for our movement, and advance and defend workers’ rights by co-ordinating union campaigns, representing workers at a range of government and non-government forums and to provide industrial, policy and other support to our affiliates.
Organising Works Trainee (Full Time Position)
All Capital Cities
15 July
Employment will commence on a date to be mutually agreed by the employing union and the successful candidate (commencement dates may range from November 11 2024 to January 2025).
To be determined with employing union
Education and development for candidates applying from outside the union movement
Successful applicants will be placed with a sponsoring union. The sponsoring union will be the employer. The Organising Works Unit at the ACTU will be responsible for recruitment to the program, education, and development over the 12-month duration of the program.
Existing workplace union delegates, activists and Health and Safety Reps are very much encouraged to apply. To do so, notify your union and ask that they support your application, then contact us. Successful and supported applicants will be placed with their union or an agreed union.
The Organising Works program was established in 1994 to provide affiliated unions with a younger more diverse group of organisers to organise and empower workers. Since then, more than 1,000 people have advanced through the program – playing their part in steering the trade union movement through difficult, but exciting times.
If you believe that the world could be different, that it should be different. If you want to play an active role in helping workers and communities fight for a better world, then we want to hear from you.
Over the next few weeks, the ACTU will be recruiting the next generation of Organising Works trainees. These organisers will be employed in conjunction with sponsoring unions, learning the skills and knowledge to inspire and activate workers across this country.
The Organising Works program is a traineeship, and you will learn from the best in our movement. We ask only that you have a passion to fight injustice.
As an Organising Works trainee based in a union, you will be deployed across a range of situations, and you can expect the role to include:
You will be employed by the sponsoring union, but your development will be delivered by the team at the Organising Works Unit, led by the ACTU.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Desirable experience:
Personal qualities:
For more information: https://atui.org.au/organising-works/
You can apply for the role of Organising Works Trainee through a range of methods, including:
Follow the link below, enter your details and upload your response to the selection criteria.
Next steps and selection process:
For more information contact Jon Clark, 0439 454 128 or [email protected] using the subject line: Trainee Union Organisers enquiry via EthicalJobs.
We can’t wait to meet you!
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