Special Projects Organizer

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.

While the majority of our time as an organization is spent on engaging the working class, we also believe that people with access to wealth are an important constituency to organize into our coalition. This role will support the cadre donor project, a long-term project incubated by Working Families Power to develop wealthy people into organizers who understand how change actually happens, who organize other wealthy people and who fund movement work with an orientation to learning and experimentation. This project aims to build a center of gravity in the money landscape that shifts resources to strategic power-building and the left winning counter-hegemony. This role is primarily a base-building role focused on executing organizing and leadership development plans. This is a temporary, full-time role from mid-June through early July 2026. This role includes benefits.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• • Support developing team and leadership structures
  • Our organizing model is based on both traditional structure-based organizing and the Circles of Commitment model from Momentum-style organizing
  • We define leaders as politically mature, strategic, low-ego, high-resilience, highly skilled organizers
  • Our team structures will evolve through different phases of the project and must work in both the short- and long-term
  • Execute base-building and leadership development plans, including through 1:1s, committee-building, list-building, leadership assessments, trainings, campaign actions, debriefs, feedback sessions, and more
  • When we are in campaign mode (for issue, electoral or other campaigns or we’re recruiting a cohort), support and execute campaign plans that build leadership in our project, including in partnership with our movement partners
  • Campaign actions could include phonebanking, canvassing, etc.
  • Shadow and assist at meetings and events
  • Support logistics, operations and administrative work
  • Assist with the development of training curriculum
  • Research variety of texts and other types of media to support the research needed to develop political education within the project, including on subjects such as how do different communities debrief and learn lessons from experiences, the lineages of wealthy people playing important roles in historical change, and more

What Else Should You Know

• • Location: The position is full-time and based in New York, NY. Some limited travel will be required. End date: July 10, 2026
  • Salary: The salary range for this position as currently posted is $65,000 to $80,000. The final salary will be determined based on an internal equitable scale that takes into consideration years of experience, geographic location, and the final job description relative to other current WFP staff. The final job description may be revised for candidates with additional skills and experience at the discretion of the Hiring Manager. Revisions to the job description may impact the final salary offer for this role.
  • We also offer a robust benefit package for full time employees including paid time off; health, dental, vision, and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plan options; professional development funding; and remote work support.
  • Union Affiliation: WFP is a unionized workplace. This is a non-managerial role, eligible to join WFP’s staff bargaining unit after six months of employment. 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.

Skills and Qualifications

• • At least 1 years of structure-based organizing experience at a community organization or labor union, especially relevant skills include: deep listening, agitational 1:1s, and committee-building; at least 2 years experience in social movements/politics overall
  • Experience navigating complex emotional and social dynamics, sometimes in high-stakes situations
  • Must have experience building teams of teams or committees of committees and know how to develop leadership at multiple levels
  • Strong organizational skills, able to keep track of multiple projects at once
  • Must be able to see all people in their full humanity and as people capable of being full agents in undoing our conditions of injustice and inequality, including by leveraging wealth and privilege
  • Must feel comfortable being in wealthy spaces and primarily working with wealthy people
  • Excellent reading, research, and writing skills
  • Strong organizational skills, able to keep track of multiple projects at once
  • Interest in or introductory experience with philanthropic world