Child Care Providers United

Director of Organizing and Representation

Based in California
(multiple locations including remote)

 

Job Type: Full-time
Location: California (Multiple locations including remote)

Who We Are
Child Care Providers United (CCPU) brings together tens of thousands of child care providers across California who fought for twenty years to win bargaining rights to improve the child care profession and ensure every child has access to quality early learning. Through collective bargaining, providers in California have won significant pay increases as well as health, retirements and training benefits and other gains to improve the child care profession. In CCPU, the growing population of more than 60,000 child care providers throughout the state seek to secure what they need to stay in the field long-term as well as attract new providers to the industry to serve California’s families. Our vision is to improve how child care works, challenging its racist, sexist, and classist roots, as we win quality, affordable and accessible child care for all families in California, while supporting the essential workforce delivering this foundational service.

The Opportunity
As a key strategic leader within CCPU, the Director of Organizing and Representation works hand-in-hand with the Executive Director to drive the union’s vision, strategy, and daily operations. Acting as a force multiplier, this role ensures seamless execution of organizational priorities, including collective bargaining and member representation, member growth and leadership development, political advocacy, and coalition building. The Director serves as a critical liaison, amplifying CCPU’s impact in local, state, and national arenas while fostering alignment across teams, partners, and initiatives. With a deep commitment to worker power and movement-building, this leader will be at the forefront of shaping the future of power building for child care providers and families.

As the Director of Organizing and Representation you will:
Union Leadership

• Participate and help lead strategic discussions to ensure that all key stakeholders have a thorough understanding of the goals and progress of all organizing, bargaining and legislative campaigns
• Support relationship management with three local unions, members, staff and elected leadership
• Serve as a liaison with external stakeholders and state agency staff and leadership, legislative staff and leaders, and child care program administrators

Field Coordination

• Coordinate and lead with local union staff and member leadership on field campaigns and representation
• Add capacity, leadership, and coordination on organizational growth

Communications

• Manage and coordinate communications for child care campaign, including the development of a unified communications strategy and messaging in support of organizing, representation, bargaining and other priorities
• Direct contact for local union communicators and consultants to execute all elements of external and internal communications
• Oversee the use of digital and traditional communications tactics to support the efforts of providers to build their union
• Enhance the union’s identity and build its reputation among providers, parents, and community members

Internal Functions

• Train and mentor staff and member leaders on contract enforcement, member representation and organizing
• Work with administrative staff to coordinate logistics and provide other support as needed related to bargaining, field and other CCPU work

What You’ll Bring:

• A commitment to advancing the voice and improving conditions of California’s family child care providers.
• 7+ years of leadership in nonprofit, union, government, community organizing organizations; 5+ years of union leadership experience in positions of increasing responsibility, including managing staff and budgets.
• Strong understanding of union organizing, collective bargaining, and the value of workers organizing together.
• Excellent at building collaboration across multiple teams to set goals and move towards desired outcomes in alignment with organizational priorities, without formal authority,
• Strong ability to collaborate and build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including CCPU and local union leaders, staff, providers, and vendors.
• Demonstrated commitment to organizational equity and inclusion. Experience leading services with a diverse (cultural, racial, ethnic, class, linguistic) customer base
• Leading strategy and overseeing implementation of both external and internal communications (Strongly Preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university or commensurate experience (Strongly Preferred)

To Apply
Please submit a résumé and letter of interest, sharing more about your union experience, and working with traditionally underrepresented groups, highlighting instances where you successfully developed outreach and engagement programs for those groups.

Related union experience is required for this role, candidates without will not be considered.

Application materials should be sent to jobs@ccpuca.org with Director of Organizing and Representation in the subject line.

Compensation
CPPU offers competitive wages and industry leading health, vision, dental, and retirement benefits. Salary range of $120k-140k, commensurate with experience.

CCPU is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our team members are also responsible for conduct consistent with our EEO standards and are expected to demonstrate respect for all coworkers and participants. We also recognize the desirability of increasing employment opportunities for people of color, women, LGBTQIA+, people that are bilingual or multilingual, and people with disabilities.