Senior Researcher

SEIU 503 is an organization of more than 72,000 Oregonians who, by joining together, are achieving what we cannot accomplish alone. By standing together, we have a voice in our contracts and our daily work lives. SEIU 503 members do more than 500 different jobs on the state, local government, and non-profit level. The services we provide include helping blind people get access to education, assisting nursing home patients, testing new drivers, collecting tax revenue, providing childcare, helping veterans, assisting at-risk youth, staffing our state universities, repairing bridges, maintaining Oregon’s parks, and caring for seniors and people with disabilities.

General Description:

SEIU Local 503 is seeking a full time Senior Researcher. SEIU Local 503 is a dynamic and growing union -over the last 20 years we have tripled in size and are now the largest union in Oregon. Our union represents public employees including state, local and higher education workers and long-term care workers including homecare, nursing home, and facility-based workers. Our work to lift standards benefits our members and Oregonians as a whole. We are looking for someone to join our research team and provide skilled support to SEIU 503’s organizing, bargaining, and policy campaigns. The person in this position will lead critical projects under time pressure and use experience and creativity to solve problems big and small.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Lead research projects

• Communicate with Local 503 members and staff about research

• Collect, clean, and organize information from a variety of data sources

• Analyze and summarize data, and create charts and graphs

• Develop presentations of research findings

• Cost collective bargaining agreements and contracts for union members

• Read, understand, and summarize laws, administrative rules, and proposed regulations

• Complete financial analysis of public budgets and private companies

• Develop and administer surveys

• Keep good documentation

• In-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of contracts and public policy

• Programming spreadsheets

• Preparation of reports, memoranda, and presentations

• Collaborating with people from different programs and departments to deliver needed research products

• Political action: door-to-door canvassing, phone banks, issue campaigns, candidate campaigns, informing the membership on the issues and candidates, targeting candidates, targeting precincts for candidate races, voter registration, questionnaires and surveys on candidates and issues; get-out-the-vote drives.