Central Ohio Organizer

Workingfamilies; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Working Families Party in Columbus, Ohio, seeks a Central Ohio Organizer to build our grassroots base and organizing operation in the city. You will recruit, develop, and support members and volunteer leaders to advance the multiracial working-class values and form alliances with partner organizations.

The role focuses on organizing opportunities for issue campaigns, canvassing, phone banking, and mobilizing volunteers for the 2026 election cycle, with a emphasis on leadership development and

Qualifications

• Experience doing field organizing at a community organization, a union, or electoral campaign.
• Ability to train and develop volunteer leaders.
• Belief in leadership development and ownership of important projects.
• Excellent communication and listening skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Very detail-oriented and able to multi-task.
• Experience working with a diverse group of volunteers across demographics.
• Experience with organizing tools: Spoke, Slack, Mobilize, and Action Network.
• Familiarity with VAN.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with activists, members, and leaders.
• Organize opportunities for grassroots engagement on issue campaigns and movement-building work.
• Organize phone banking, text banking, canvassing, and postcarding events for the 2026 election cycle.
• Identify volunteer team needs and recruit members and activists to do that work.
• Suggest engagement strategies to reach out to potential supporters and current volunteers, deepen leadership.
• Manage contact lists and maintain up-to-date records in our database.
• Evaluate changing conditions and suggest modifications to plans.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Field organizing

Volunteer training

Leadership development

Effective communication

Independent work

Attention to detail

Diversity & inclusion

Organizing tools

Tools

Spoke

Slack

Mobilize

Action Network

VAN

Job description

About the Working Families Party

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.

We believe that no matter where we come from or what our color, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future for our kids. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to be free.

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Central Ohio Organizer will help build our grassroots base and organizing operation in Columbus in support of our legislative, policy, and electoral campaigns. The Organizer will help drive a program to recruit, develop, and support members and volunteer leaders to advance the values of the multiracial working class. The Organizer also identifies and builds alliances with other organizations which can influence decision-makers.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build relationships with individual activists, members, and leaders
• Organize opportunities for grassroots engagement on issue campaigns and in movement-building work
• Organize phone banking, text banking, canvassing, and postcarding events for 2026 election cycle
• Identify volunteer team needs and work with them to recruit members and activists to do that work
• Suggest engagement strategies to reach out to potential supporters and current volunteers, move them up the WFP ladder of engagement, and deepen their leadership.
• Manage contact lists and maintain up-to-date records in our database
• Uses skills to contribute to development of party objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways. takes initiative to meet assigned deliverables and priorities on time?
• Evaluates changing conditions and suggestions modifications to plans
• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Experience doing field organizing (including as a volunteer) at a community organization, at a union and/or on an electoral campaign
• Ability to train and develop skills of volunteer leaders
• Belief in leadership development and that growth relies on an individual’s ability to have ownership of important projects and achieve success for themselves
• Excellent communication, listening, and executive skills
• Ability to work independently
• Very detail-oriented and ability to multi-task
• Experience working with a diverse group of volunteers and supporters across all demographics and backgrounds– especially race, gender, and class
• Experience with organizing tools: Spoke, Slack, Mobilize, and Action Network
• Familiarity working with VAN

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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Working Families Party is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to economic and social justice. Women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, and members of other historically disenfranchised populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to apply for or perform the essential functions of the job should contact us at [e-mail] with the subject line "Application Accommodation" to request such an accommodation.