Essential Functions

• Serves as the agency’s Executive Director, subject to Board supervision, by administering fiscal and personnel operations
• Plans, directs, and supervises a statewide program related to representation elections, unfair labor practice investigations and adjudications, dispute resolution and other activities enforcing and implementing the provisions of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
• Develops, implements, and monitors agency rules, policies, and procedures used in regard to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act.
• Acts as liaison and represents and speaks on behalf of the board.
• Participates in preparation and conduct of Board meetings in coordination with the Board’s General Counsel.
• Serves as full line supervisor.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college
• Requires prior experience equivalent to four (4) years of progressively responsible administrative experience working with labor laws in an educational setting within a public or private business organization
• Requires thorough knowledge of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act and the rules and regulations that pertain to the Act
• Requires at least five (5) years of professional experience in labor relations or a similar setting
• Requires the ability to exercise judgement and discretion in developing, implementing, and interpreting policies and procedures for an agency or business entity
• Requires the ability to analyze information and make recommendations and independent decisions from a non-bias and neutral point of view
• Requires previous professional experience and the ability to conduct legal writing and research

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefers possession of a Juris Doctorate

Conditions of Employment

• Requires completion of a background check and self-disclosure of criminal history.
• Requires ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate. Requires appropriate, valid driver’s license.
• Overtime is a condition of employment, and you may be requested or required/mandated to work overtime including scheduled, unscheduled, or last-minute overtime. This may require the ability to work evenings and weekends.
• Requires ability to attend seminars, conferences, and trainings to stay current on methods, tools, ideologies, or other industry related topics relevant to the job duties.

The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

About the Agency

The IELRB is the state agency responsible for administering the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act (IELRA), which establishes the right of educational employees to organize and bargain collectively. Some of the methods the IELRB employs to protect these rights include conducting on-site ballot elections to determine educational employees’ preferences regarding union representation; certifying and clarifying bargaining units; investigating unfair labor practice charges; ruling on unfair labor practice charges; and conducting hearings and issuing formal decisions to decide labor disputes between educational employees and their employers. The IELRB utilizes a three-tiered adjudicatory process: all initial cases are reviewed and decided by the agency Executive Director; all hearings are conducted and decided by one of the Board Agents; and all appeals and final orders are heard and decided by the agency’s five-member Board.