About the Working Families Party
The Working Families Party (WFP) is the progressive party for the multiracial working class, fighting for a nation that works for the many, not the few. We recruit, train, and support transformational candidates up and down the ballot — and run them to win.
We believe that no matter where we come from or what our color, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future for our kids. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to be free.
The Working Families Party is regular people coming together across our differences to make a better future for us all. We’re a multiracial party that fights for workers over bosses and people over the powerful. We want an America which realizes the promise – unrealized in our history – of freedom and equality for all.
The Working Families Party (WFP) seeks to build a powerful, left political force that can win real governing power. In Connecticut, we’ve been winning elections for champions for working people for two decades, and organizing to leverage those electoral successes into legislative victories for working families — including paid family and medical leave, paid sick days, immigrant protections, and equitable state budgets.
The Connecticut Political Organizer will support the growth of our grassroots base and organizing operation in support of our electoral goals, including recruiting, training, and supporting candidates and campaign volunteers for races at all levels across the state. The role will also drive a program to recruit, train, and organize WFP members and volunteer leaders to advance WFP’s policy priorities. The organizer will identify and develop leaders who can help build WFP power in their own city and across the state by providing structure, training, and support.
This position is supervised by the Connecticut State Director, and will work closely with our small team, including another Connecticut-based organizer in a similar role. The role includes local and national professional development opportunities in areas such as volunteer management and recruitment, organizing, communications, electoral campaigns, and fundraising.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Cultivate and grow Connecticut’s WFP membership base
- Build relationships with individual activists, members, and leaders.
- Lead efforts to organize individuals into WFP.
- Support the continued development of new and existing WFP chapters throughout the state, including in Hartford, Southwestern Connecticut, New London, and Danbury.
- Help grow the broad base of support for our issue and electoral priorities statewide.
- Manage contact lists and maintain up to date records in our database.
- Host and lead effective membership and relational meetings, WFP events, including but not limited to welcome gatherings for new members, election and legislative debriefs and training to support WFP goals.
- Advance CTWFP’s electoral and legislative programs
- Support member engagement in electoral campaigns.
- Lead WFP GOTV programs including text messaging, phone banking, and door-to-door canvassing.
- Implement programs to train candidates and campaign volunteers in electoral work.
- Support candidate recruitment efforts across the state.
- Collaborate with partner organizations on legislative campaigns, through participating in member engagement, lobbying and advocacy work and training opportunities.
- Organize CTWFP party building activities
- Organize opportunities for members to take leadership in movement-building work.
- Co-develop and facilitate meetings, teach-ins, and training opportunities for WFP activists.
- Plan action opportunities, including in-person events, phone/text banks, lobby days, canvasses, and other activities as appropriate.
- Staff and table at community events across the state.
- Provide support with WFP social media strategies to be used as a tool for increased member and volunteer engagement.
- Raise funds to drive CTWFP’s work
- Set and meet annual dues-member recruitment goals.
- Work with WFP members to set and meet their own fundraising goals.
- Organize and staff occasional events, such as house parties.
- Other duties as assigned.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Required
- At least 2 years of relevant professional experience (organizing, political, electoral or non-profit).
- Demonstrated track record of commitment to social, economic, and racial justice.
- Demonstrated ability to engage activists around a cause.
- Experience with electoral campaigns, including canvassing or phone-banking.
- Ability to communicate compellingly about WFP’s work and inspire others to action.
- Drive and tenacity to advance our mission and values.
- Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite & Google Suite.
- Ability to work independently.
- Driver’s license, reliable transportation, and willingness for regular in-state travel.
- Ability and willingness to work late evenings and weekends.
- Preferred
- Experience in designing compelling social media campaigns to drive members to action.
- Experience managing electoral campaigns.
- Fluency in Spanish.
- Experience working with grassroots organizations in Connecticut.
SCHEDULE AND LOCATION
- This is a full-time position that requires weekly in-person work with opportunities to work remotely when possible.
UNION AFFILIATION
- WFP is a unionized workplace. This role is eligible to join WFP's staff bargaining unit after 6 months. WFP's union employees are represented by the New York Metropolitan Area Joint Board, Workers United union.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor, or take over sponsorship of, employment visas at this time.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Working Families Party is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to apply for or perform the essential functions of the job should contact us at [email protected] with the subject line "Application Accommodation" to request such an accommodation. 