Working Families Party

Community Manager

• Work with team on strategic goals and in support of NJWFA and NJWFP initiatives and candidates in New Jersey
• Build digital and grassroots support for NJWFP electoral programs
• Create compelling digital campaigns that tell the story of NJWFA and NJWFP progressive, bold campaigns, vision and leaders with support and oversight from the Director of Democracy Organizing
• Produce creative content for NJWFA and NJWFP social networking sites
• Assist in the execution of rapid response social media
• Assist with building the We the People Civic Engagement table through digital and organizing
• Organize bi-monthly regional coalition meetings with groups in North, Central and South Jersey
• Recruit and support members to lead local activist and volunteer community in coordination with Organizing and Technology staff leads
• Supports identifying and building alliances with other organizations
• Evaluates changing conditions and modifies plans accordingly

Community and Digital Organizer

Director

• The MA Organizing Director will lead the growth of our grassroots base and organizing operation in Massachusetts in support of our electoral goals.
• Develop strong local teams that can repeatedly win and defend seats.
• Enable volunteers to drive substantial aspects of Working Families Party and Working Families Power work through intentional recruitment, training, and distributed leadership.
• Build a base of voters who identify with WFP and support our candidates.
• Grow our multiracial working class membership base.
• Deepen members’ involvement with Working Families Party and Working Families Power.
• Assembling and supporting long-term local and statewide volunteer teams, including leadership identification, recruitment, and active coaching and oversight.
• Engage coalitions of leaders and partner organizations in working class cities to build effective structure, make decisions, and set strategy and tactics for elections and issue campaigns.

Organizing Director

• Responsible for all aspects of the Neighborhood Captain program.
• Coordination and overall management of the Independent Expenditures programs of MI WFP and partner groups.
• Develop, manage and implement a neighborhood captains program.
• Provide training, onboarding, systems, and coaching to captains and to the organizers at each member group that has captains.
• Recruit additional captains as needed.
• Develop and provide scripts, materials, and regular check-ins for the captains.
• Work with MI WFP’s data consultant to ensure captains have the right voter lists and are properly tracking contacts and information.
• Keep the MI WFP State Director and the EDs of participating organizations informed and updated on the project.

Interim Statewide Organizing Director

• Collaborate with other senior leadership to developing the state power building plan with the WFP organizing committee, elected leaders, and aligned partners
• Build and maintain relationships with endorsed and aligned candidates and campaigns, to implement the political and electoral strategy in the state power building plan
• Manage our Know Your Neighbor Canvassing Program
• Identify key strategic opportunities and priority electoral races aligned with the state power building plan
• Candidate recruitment and vetting, including providing key leadership with state director and organizing committee of electoral endorsement process
• Run events such as candidate trainings with and without partner organizations
• Build a statewide container for WFP and aligned elected officials to connect across Wisconsin
• Work with WFP-endorsed campaigns to assess campaign needs so that WI WFP can build digital and organizing plans that take advantage of our tools (e.g., dialer, peer-to-peer text, etc.) and offer services to best support their campaigns
• Coordinate with WFP national staff to support endorsed candidates as necessary
• Support fundraising for coordinated campaigns and independent expenditures so that these initiatives can be successful
• Electoral program development and management, including both independent expenditure and coordinated campaigns and maintaining a long term strategy to engage and build WFP membership
• Support the development of electoral tactics that rest on and build the strength of WFP’s membership, volunteers and leaders, working in consultation with staff across the organization
• Align our political strategy with major organizational partners and organizing around shared priorities
• Help ensure compliance with campaign finance rules and reporting to all relevant entities
• Relationship management and in-person events and meetings up and down the state
• Help the State Director maintain national relationships with organizations including Vera Action, Seed the Vote, and others as appropriate; support on the ground membership and party building in Madison, WI in absence of organizing staff
• Supervise paid canvass manager/vendor, organizers, etc. as needed
• Other duties as assigned.

Political Director

Communications

• Responsible for internal and external communications within New York
• Develop and execute sophisticated media strategies to advance legislative and electoral priorities
• Foster relationships with news media, editors, reporters, partner organizations, political campaigns, and public officials
• Execute a strong communications strategy across multiple timelines
• Serve as a key strategist and organizational leader, shaping and stewarding brand and narrative

Communications Director

Software Engineer

• Manage and support two direct reports — the Senior Software Engineer and Analytics Engineer — through regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and ongoing feedback
• Serve as the primary engineering liaison on engineering requests from non-technical staff across the organization: meet with stakeholders, assess needs, translate requests into scoped projects with clear deliverables and timelines
• Plan and prioritize engineering work across the team, balancing incoming requests against maintenance needs and longer-term reliability work
• Oversee the Senior Software Engineer's work on Votivate, a proprietary internal voter file tool, providing technical direction and ensuring alignment with organizational priorities
• Maintain and extend our suite of data pipelines, automations, and internal web applications, including ingestion (APIs / BigQuery mirrors), transformation (dbt / Python), orchestration (Prefect), and serving (Flask-based UIs)
• Build new features and tools in response to organizer and campaign needs — such as configurable list pulls, voter contact syncs, or staff-facing dashboards — scoping and implementing these either directly or in collaboration with direct reports
• Ensure all tooling is well-documented, intuitive for staff, and maintainable over time
• Own day-to-day oversight of our engineering tech stack, including Prefect, GitHub, AWS, Google Cloud, and related tools and platforms
• Ensure data systems are monitored, reliable, and resilient to failure; lead incident response and long-term reliability practices
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments; manage cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration
• Work with The Movement Cooperative to ensure data from our tool ecosystem syncs reliably into BigQuery; build and maintain standalone syncs as needed

Director of Engineering

People Operations

• Leads the strategy for building a fair, supportive, and high-performing workplace.
• Ensure evaluations and the progressive discipline policy are utilized effectively to improve performance.
• Monitor staff morale and organizational culture, identifying strengths to build on and areas where additional coaching and support are needed to strengthen teams and leadership.
• Implement systems to bring visibility in supervision chains of onboarding, probationary periods, performance improvement plans, and grievances.
• Implement practices that strengthen an impactful, collaborative, and values-driven workplace.
• Ensure policies, systems, and day-to-day practices are aligned, and proactively anticipate when changes are needed.
• Ensure equity and inclusion are built into systems, policies, and everyday practices.
• Build strong, trusting, and collaborative relationships with Division Directors and Department Directors and EpicWorks partners.
• Advise Division Directors and Department Directors on people strategy, organizational design, and culture to support impact.
• Oversee staff development across the full lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, six month probationary period, growth, and retention.
• Lead and support the full hiring process, including managing the Lever applicant tracking system, advising hiring managers, strengthening recruitment strategies, and supporting priority searches as needed.
• Serve on the salary committee and coordinate offers for new hires and current staff role reviews.
• Lead performance management systems, including role description updates, annual work planning and evaluations through Small Improvements, a culture of regular feedback, and the progressive discipline policy.
• Set and uphold clear management and leadership standards, including leading the 360 evaluation process for managers, and lead the development of a new managers handbook.
• Lead consistent communication and engagement rhythms for managers.
• Lead regular Department Director and Manager meetings, manager onboarding, and annual training programs.
• Lead cross-organization sabbatical planning in partnership with department leaders.
• Lead the onboarding experience for new staff to ensure a strong and clear start.
• Lead monthly all-staff calls and biannual in-person gatherings, including facilitating agenda-setting, content development, and coordination with key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Executive Projects Manager on all-staff communication and engagement rhythms so staff understand priorities, progress, and how their work connects to larger goals.
• Partner with the Executive Office Director on staff-facing communications from the National Director.
• Lead the annual engagement survey and use staff feedback, including interviews and exit data, to improve the staff experience.
• Track and share key staff data, including demographics, compensation, retention, and development.
• Own the updating of the Employee Handbook and oversee other systems that help staff navigate the organization, access resources, and understand and do their jobs effectively.
• Supervise tools and platforms such as the internal resource “Library” and “Wolfgang Botzart” chatbot to ensure information is clear and accessible.
• Partner with EpicWorks teams to ensure staff can easily access HR, finance, and operations support.
• Serve as a key point of contact for staff on HR-related questions and concerns, in partnership with the EpicWorks People Team.
• Support managers through employee relations processes, including coaching and documentation.
• Oversee investigations, performance improvement plans, corrective actions, and terminations as needed.
• Maintain a strong, respectful relationship with the Workers United Working Families Party Staff Union.
• Serve on the Joint Labor Management Committee with the Senior Advisor and EpicWorks Counsel and collaborate with union representatives.
• Oversee implementation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and ensure compliance.
• Partner with EpicWorks Counsel to ensure alignment with labor and employment policies and laws.