NY 13 Field Organizer

Working Families Party • New York, NY

5d • $64,000 - $81,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Our Field Organizer program will support our Vote WFP campaign in NY13, a must-win general election race in the state. In this district, we will help decisively elect NYWFP-endorsed Democrat Darializa Avila Chevalier by driving up votes for Darializa on the Working Families ballot line. The Field Organizer will receive comprehensive field training, including on field strategy, community organizing, voter contact tools, persuasion, and volunteer recruitment and management. This program runs from [September 21, 2026 to November 6, 2026.

Requirements

• Experience doing field organizing (including as a volunteer) at a community organization, at a union and/or on an electoral campaign
• Familiarity with some voter contact/field tools
• This person must be a data and people person — able to spend some days in spreadsheets and voter files and other days calling and meeting with volunteers
• Deeply relational and can build trust with people from different backgrounds and with different work styles
• Values alignment on our theory of change, which is that we are electing progressive champions to form a governing bloc to deliver material results for our people
• Operating effectively in a fast-paced, “startup†environment with a lean team
• Demonstrated commitment to, and experience in, centering equity and inclusion in your work - removing barriers to participation and engaging people across lines of race, class, age, language and geography, especially when it’s not the path of least resistance
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategic field plans; plan and host phone-banking, canvassing, and other voter contact events; talk to voters
• Build, recruit for, and lead multiple in-district community canvasses each week
• Record data on a daily basis
• Recruit, train and develop volunteers into field leaders; build membership for the Party
• Outreach community organizations and constituency groups
• Build deep relationships with our priority campaigns and candidates and serve as a day-to-day operations contact

Benefits

• Comprehensive field training, including on field strategy, community organizing, voter contact tools, persuasion, and volunteer recruitment and management.
• WFP is a unionized workplace.
• Workers United affiliated with SEIU and the affiliated Local 1115, Workers United.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed