Job description
Duties will include, but not limited to:
Recruitment of new members in existing and current workplaces.
Grow and maintain Union density in existing workplaces.
Build and develop strong Union structures in recent and existing workplaces, including identifying and developing recent and existing Delegates and HSRs.
Ensure that all delegates participate in the Union education program and that opportunities are promoted for delegates to use skills learnt and to participate in further Union education.
Identify and mentor workplace leaders.
Develop and implement workplace organising plans, in line with the SA Branch Operational Plan.
Utilise effective advocacy, negotiation, campaigning, record keeping, note taking and public speaking skills to ensure that the Union campaign objectives are met.
Understand and utilise appropriate knowledge of industrial legislation and industrial tactics and strategy, to ensure that industrial action is effectively and appropriately developed, used, and managed.
Attend and support enterprise bargaining negotiations ensuring that Union agreements meet the campaign objectives of the Union.




Understand and employ corporate campaigning, research, and critical analysis tools to ensure the union campaign objectives are met and are effectively and efficiently targeted.
Utilise and maintain record keeping through IMIS.
Respond to workplace industrial issues.
Attend workplace negotiations.
Selection Criteria
Demonstrated commitment to trade unionism and social justice.
Excellent listening, communication, and interpersonal skills – ability to establish rapport, explore issues, encourage critical analysis, and gain commitment to action.
Ability to lead, motivate, develop, and mobilise potential Union members, existing Union members and workplace activists.
Ability to analyse issues/problems and develop strategies to deal with them.
Ability to deal professionally with diverse groups of people, including members, delegates, and Unions Officials.
Driver's license.
You will be accountable to the Rules, policy Union Leadership and Union Councils for your activity and have the capacity to critically report in respect to the Union policies.

📌 Sa Union Organiser Adelaide
🏢 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU)
📍 Adelaide