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ABOUT THIS ROLE
The New York Working Families Party is seeking a highly strategic, motivating leader to serve as the New York Organizing Director, leading the Party’s organizing and coalition-building strategy in the state.
The NY Organizing Director will develop WFP grassroots leaders and organizing operations in New York state in support of our electoral, legislative, and policy campaigns. The Organizing Director will build a program to recruit, support and train members and volunteer leaders to advance the values and needs of the multiracial working class. The Organizing Director will also collaborate with allies, coalition partners, candidates, and elected officials to develop and execute strategies and tactics to win elections and issue campaigns. The NY Organizing Director will play a critical role in shaping NYWFP’s broader statewide power-building strategy, ensuring alignment between regional work and long-term governing goals.
The ideal candidate brings deep organizing experience, strong leadership and management skills, electoral campaign skills, and a track record of building durable, multiracial working-class power through electoral and organizing programs. This is a high-impact leadership role that combines strategy-setting, team management, coalition leadership and political execution.
