National Office:

Part-Time Fundraising Coordinator

Midwest Regional Coordinator (Department of Organizing and Services)

Legal Internships and Externships

AAUP Chapters and Affiliates:

Executive Director -University of Connecticut Health Center

National AAUP

Part-Time Fundraising Coordinator

Reporting to the executive director, the fundraising coordinator will spearhead development efforts of the new AAUP Foundation. A new position in the organization, the fundraising coordinator will have the opportunity to build the Association’s development function. This half-time position offers flexible hours, fringe benefits, and is part of the staff union bargaining unit. It is expected to evolve eventually into a full-time position.

Qualifications:

• BA (required), MA (a plus)
• 3–5 years experience in development and fundraising
• Knowledge of higher education issues
• Knowledge of fundraising information and research resources and of fundraising techniques and strategies, especially in a nonprofit context
• Computer skills and experience with Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint, Publisher, and Excel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to write clear, structured, articulate, and persuasive proposals
• Excellent time-management skills with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends
• Ability to maintain client confidentiality
• Good leadership skills
• Understanding of budget control, expenses, and allocations

Responsibilities:

• Advise and assist in the development of an organization-wide fundraising strategy, plan, and budget to support the work of the AAUP Foundation, the AAUP, and the AAUP CBC
• Build and maintain profitable, long-term fundraising relationships with current donors and potential donors by working closely with communications professionals in the Department of External Relations and other departments within the Association
• Provide staff support to the AAUP Foundation
• Represent the AAUP, the AAUP CBC, and the AAUP Foundation at outreach meetings and events
• Prepare grants and project proposals and progress reports as directed by executive director

 
To apply, please submit a résumé and cover letter with salary requirements to Martin Snyder at msnyder@aaup.org. No phone calls, please!

Midwest Regional Coordinator

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is pleased to announce a Regional Coordinator position, to be filled as soon as possible. The AAUP has since its inception set national standards in higher education. The Midwest Regional Coordinator will play a leadership role in building the AAUP’s membership; defining key issues; increasing the diversity of our membership; creating and sustaining coalitions; mobilizing members, and winning increased freedoms and protections for faculty, academic professionals, and graduate student employees. The Regional Coordinator will be based in a major metropolitan area in the Midwest and will travel widely across the region, working under the direction of AAUP’s National Director of Organizing and Services.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Midwest Regional Coordinator will participate in developing and executing a regional organizing plan with a focus on winning around key issues (such as academic freedom, online education, job security for contingent faculty, and intellectual property) and building membership across the Midwest, particularly in Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio.  That plan will include the following responsibilities:

• Working with union leadership, run AAUP new union organizing campaigns.
• Support and help to plan contract campaigns as needed at our collective bargaining chapters/local unions.  This may include on the ground work to recruit and train contract action teams. 
• Support bargaining as needed at our collective bargaining chapters.  This may include training of bargaining committees, review and input on proposals, and mentoring of chief negotiators.
• When appropriate, work collaboratively with AAUP’s union partners, such as the AFT, in developing campaign plans. 
• Support, as needed, the Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and other Midwest AAUP state organizations, helping develop and mentor diverse and talented member and staff leadership that can run effective issues-based campaigns; build membership; and increase the influence of our members. 
• Articulate, in a variety of public forums, AAUP’s national organizing plan as well as policy on higher education issues.

Qualifications

The Midwest Regional Coordinator needs to have substantial, varied organizing experience.  The ideal candidate will also have significant experience in higher education as an academic professional, graduate student employee, and/or teacher; and/or as an organizer of higher education employees (preferably including faculty).  The Coordinator must be familiar with and passionate about the issues facing higher education and be committed to social justice.  That said, these are the foundational requirements for the position:

• Two years experience minimum with new union organizing, including leading and winning at least one new union campaign.
• Two years minimum experience with internal union organizing including work on developing member leaders/stewards; recruiting, training, and supporting contract action and/or bargaining teams; and mobilizing member-led workplace actions.
• One year minimum experience running issues-based campaigns.
• One year minimum experience with higher education whether as an employee in higher education or as an organizer in a higher education context.
• Must have a Bachelor’s degree.   
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office/Word, Excel, and comfortable using multiple databases. 
• Must be willing to work long hours and travel extensively. 
• Must have a car. 

Preferred Qualifications

1. Terminal degree desirable.
2. Significant experience working with professional associations and membership groups—mobilizing members and securing gains outside a collective bargaining context.
3. Experience organizing in a right to work state.
4. Experience as a chief negotiator in bargaining for professional groups, especially within a higher education context. 
5. Experience with all steps of the grievance process including arbitrations.
6. Demonstrated ability to plan and execute large actions or events, mobilizing hundreds of members.
7. Experience building coalitions with student and community groups and/or experience running corporate campaigns.
8. Experience running or working on joint union organizing campaigns. 

Compensation

• Salary commensurate with experience
• Generous benefits package 

The AAUP is an equal opportunity employer.  This position is designated as a senior program officer in the Department of Organizing and Services, and is part of the staff union bargaining unit.

To apply, email a resume with cover letter to the Director of Organizing and Services, Angela Hewett, at ahewett@aaup.org, or mail your resume and cover letter to AAUP, 1133 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC  20036, Attention: Angela Hewett.  No phone calls please. Applicants will be reviewed beginning June 1, and applications will continue to be reviewed until position is filled.  

Legal Internships and Externships

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is seeking qualified interns or externs for the Summer of 2013 as well as the 2013-2014 academic year.  The AAUP is a national organization founded in 1915 that is active in areas including intellectual freedom, due process, professional ethics, and university governance.  Membership is about 46,000 faculty members and scholars from all disciplines.

The intern and extern positions will be in a legal department currently staffed with 2 lawyers and 1 paralegal and involves significant in-house legal and other support work for the Association. The legal office files amicus briefs in higher education cases of national significance, provides legal information on a wide range of issues to staff and members all over the country, and acts as a resource on higher education issues.  Staff and volunteer lawyers are experts in such areas as academic freedom, discrimination, affirmative action, intellectual property, and employment.  Interns and externs can expect to be asked to research and write on a variety of legal issues including First Amendment, higher education, collective bargaining, election, tax, labor, personnel, financial, and contract issues.

Past legal interns have helped research and write amicus briefs in the federal court system, updated a multi-state survey on faculty handbooks as employment contracts, and researched and written legal outlines and fact sheets on topics such as “Faculty and Defamation Suits,” “Faculty and Family Leave Issues,” and “Academic Freedom and the First Amendment.”

Externs should be in their 2nd or 3rd year of law school and be available to work approximately 15 hours per week.  Summer internships are available to students who have completed their 2nd year of law school.  AAUP legal staff will work with interested applicants to arrange for public interest stipends, academic credit or pro bono credit from their law schools.

Qualified applicants will possess:

• excellent analytical skills
• strong writing and research skills
• interest in higher education issues
• enthusiasm and initiative

To apply for an externship or internship position, please send a cover letter, resume, official transcript and writing sample to: 

AAUP – Legal Department
ATTN:  DC Internship Program
1133 19th St. NW, Suite 200
Washington, D.C.  20036
legal.dept@aaup.org (If applying by email, please address the Subject line as: “DC Internship + Your Name”)

The AAUP is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, disability, race, color, religion, national origin, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, personal appearance, family responsibilities, genetic information, matriculation, political affiliation, or other characteristics unrelated to professional performance.  For more information, please see AAUP’s Legal Program. 

AAUP Chapters and Affiliates

Executive Director -University of Connecticut Health Center

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Chapter at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) in Farmington Connecticut was authorized in 2009 to be the collective bargaining unit for more than 500 UCHC faculty who specialize in medicine, dental medicine and biomedical sciences.  Our initial 5-year contract with the University extends through July 2016.   We now seek a full-time Executive Director to facilitate all aspects of chapter operations, including collective bargaining, contract management and enforcement, member representation, and community outreach.  As one of only four institutions of academic medicine across the nation to be unionized, this position offers a special opportunity to enhance the collective voice of university faculty.  Experience in contract negotiation, grievance/arbitration procedures, and a working knowledge of labor law and the legislative process is required.  The preferred candidate will have previously worked within an academic institution, exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be knowledgeable regarding the provision of health care.

Candidates should submit a resume and a statement summarizing their experience in collective bargaining to Susan Hunt (shunt2468@gmail.com).  Specific questions about the position can be addressed to David Gregorio (Dgaaup@gmail.com).  An attractive wage and benefit package is available.   We will begin reviewing qualified applicants after February 1, 2013 and continue until the position is filled.   UCHC-AAUP is an EEO/AA employer.