Consultant in trade union legal advice / 60% part-time

At the closest possible time, we are occupying an unlimited part-time agency (60%) as a union secretary, with the focus on consultation and law in Kiel.

The advisory and law department at ver.di is the central competence center for legal and strategic support of our members. It offers comprehensive advice on all labour, social and collective matters and represents the interests of members in legal disputes. In close cooperation with the collaborators of collective work and collective work, the department develops solutions for complex legal challenges and thus actively contributes to the design of working conditions. The team also provides advice and the right to raise the legal awareness of members in order to effectively perceive and enforce their rights.

As a trade union secretary with legal protection tasks, you take a versatile and responsible role at the interface between individual representation of interests, collective work design and legal support. Your activity includes consulting members in labour, social, administrative and professional legal issues, as well as accompanying legal disputes, such as employers, authorities or courts.

As a team member, you are responsible for:

As a trade union secretary with legal protection tasks, you are the central contact person for the individual legal concerns of our members.

You support them in matters of employment and social law, clarify legal claims and accompany them in conflict situations – from initial consultation to possible representation in the proceedings.

Your tasks are versatile:

· Examination of the conditions under the Statute and the Legal Protection Directive for legal advice and the granting of legal protection

Consultation of members in all work, social, administrative and professional legal issues

· Assessment of the need for technical assistance (through the protection of regional law and/or the department)

Informator of collective operations and Tarifwork

Preliminary and extrajudicial assertions and final Preparation of complaints

· Based on the above-mentioned tasks and with Support of the staff assigned to the team in the Secretariat Service: Developing fonts, appointments and time-limits, briefing, information search

· Decision on the granting of legal protection

· Creating counselling

· You recognize in time when conflicts, injustices, or stressful situations get you emotionally out of balance and can actively seek advice in the team with emotional overload.

You bring that with:

Qualities

· Intensified technical and organizational knowledge in the above-mentioned areas of responsibility, including the legal knowledge described, acquired by a completed vocational training**** of at least three years and additional qualifications** or a completed academic training or comparable experiences in operational codecision

· Multiannual practical experience in subject-related or cross-disciplinary (legal) consultation of members

· Financial knowledge or willingness to acquire these by qualification or to deepen them accordingly:

• comprehensive knowledge of labour law, deepened knowledge of social law and, if necessary, deepened knowledge of special legal areas
• knowledge in procedural law (ArbGG, ZPO, SGG, VWGO), in European labour law and in the current court case law
• good knowledge of the collective right of representation (BetrVG, BPersVG, LPersVG, MAV-EKD/MAVO)

· You know the Building, the activities as well as the most important statutes, guidelines and regulations of ver.di, or you are ready to work quickly into these topics.

· You have high communicative and social competence, strong solution orientation, integration and conciliation

· You master Word, Excel, Outlook, routined and used it efficiently for document creation, spreadsheet, email communication and presentations.

Methodological skills

• independent and self-responsible processing particularly complex areas of responsibility according to general guidelines with decision-making powers in technical matters and for partly extensive technical coordination and coordination processes.
• You bring experience in the file management
• Management and supervision of financial resources
• political and strategic responsibility

Personnel and social skills

• Communication capability
• Cooperation capability
• Criticism and conflictability
• independent and independent processing of complex tasks
• Openness to the concerns of (potential) members

  Joblocations:

24103 Kiel, Legienstr. 22, GERMANY