Western Wisconsin Regional Organizer

The Western Wisconsin Regional Organizer will build our grassroots base and organizing operation in the Driftless Region of WI. They will work with both organizations and individuals to identify and develop leaders and volunteers that participate in electoral tactics (ex - canvassing, phone calling, texting,  our relational postcard program) as well as all year round to build the working families party including participating in candidate recruitment, endorsement processes, and other tactics.

The Organizer will build a program to recruit and support organizers across movement organizations, build our political education program, and strengthen partnerships with member organizations to build the WI WFP into a more serious electoral and political force.

The position will also be responsible for recruiting to and holding our training programs - our Wolf Pack volunteer and grassroots organizing training program, and our grassroots candidate training. In addition to these responsibilities, the role will hold key get out the vote efforts for our local endorsed candidates, including hosting canvassing launches, building election day programs, and other related efforts.

This position provides leadership along with a supervisor in developing and implementing campaigns, and organizing processes that build grassroots power. Demonstrates ability to conceive, design, execute creative initiatives to build the party. 

This position is supervised by the Wisconsin State Director and includes local and national professional development opportunities in organizing, communications, electoral campaigns, issue campaigns, and fundraising.

Run a relational Know Your Neighbor voter contact program with a goal of recruiting 100 volunteers in WFP and partnering with other organizations to further scale the program

Work to train our volunteers and build grassroots leadership

Build a recruitment pipeline of the right people by embedding deeply in community around our issues and candidates - build relationships with everyone, from small business owners to faith leaders, to artists and PTA parents

Organizes and recruits volunteers to get involved in campaigns directly with candidate campaigns or run by PACs, c4s, or c3s

Design and manage member development and political education opportunities 

Build and maintain cross-organization political relationships with members and leaders

Build durable relationships with key leaders of allied organizations to ensure alignment around campaign goals and tactics

Work with partners to manage joint volunteer activities and actions

Manage contact lists and maintain up to date records in our database

Be a leader on get out the vote field efforts for our priority races, including launching canvasses, building election day poll site visibility operations and other field needs

Supporting and building our relational voter work including our relational postcard program 

Manages and monitors strategies, priorities, and all aspects of campaign vision, strategy, timeline, communication, community outreach, politics, timetables, and organizing strategies

Organizes and recruits volunteers to help with text banking, and or phone banking

Organizes and recruits volunteers to get involved in campaigns

The Western Wisconsin Region Organizer must be based out of LaCrosse or Eau Claire, which includes -  Pierce, Pepin, Dunn, Eau Claire, Buffalo, Trempealeau, Jackson, La Crosse, Monroe, Juneau, Vernon, Richland, Sauk, Crawford, Iowa, Green, Grant, and Lafayette counties.

 

Candidates may often work remotely from home. Candidates must live in The Western Region of Wisconsin. All candidates may be expected to work from LaCrosse or EauClaire.  Candidates will be required to travel to Milwaukee, WI, in order to attend in-person meetings and events on a bi-monthly basis. Candidates will be expected to do in person work with volunteers in their region multiple days each week. in You may need to travel for major events and all staff meetings one to two times a month.

This is a temporary position. This contract will end November 15, 2026. Successful employees in temporary position may ultimately be offered a permanent position at Working Families Party.

WFP is a unionized workplace. This is a short term temporary role that is not eligible for inclusion in WFP’s staff bargaining unit. WFP's union employees are represented by the New York Metropolitan Area Joint Board, Workers United union.