Colorado Democratic Party: Distributed Organizer

Job Post; Colorado; On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Cell phone stipend

Job summary

The Colorado Democratic Party is seeking a skilled and experienced Distributed Organizer to join our growing team. This role focuses on statewide campuses, community partnerships, and volunteer leadership development without a fixed turf.

You will recruit and train volunteers, connect them to our tools and data, and expand statewide voter contact efforts through relational organizing. This position reports to the Distributed Organizing Director and requires travel across Colorado.

Qualifications

• Commitment to Democratic values; professional Spanish proficiency (spoken/written)
• One cycle of campaign, community, labor, faith, or student organizing experience
• Proven track record recruiting, training, and retaining engaged volunteers
• Experience with VoteBuilder/VAN, Mobilize, peer-to-peer texting; REACH or similar relational tools preferred
• Strong virtual facilitation skills (Zoom trainings/phone banks)
• Self-directed; able to build relationships remotely
• Campus, community, faith, or labor organizing experience preferred
• Excellent communication, people skills, and patience
• Strong time management under competing deadlines
• Positive, versatile team player and self-starter
• Familiarity with Colorado's all-mail voting, ballot chase, and cure period
• Comfortable cold calling
• Must have a valid driver's license, reliable mode of transportation and ability to travel extensively at times throughout the state for more than a day at a time

Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, and retain volunteer leaders in counties without field staff, and support their teams
• Hold ongoing one-on-one meetings with volunteers and prospective leaders, virtually and in person
• Build organizing programs at assigned campuses (student orgs, student government, administration) and run student registration/re-registration
• Build relationships with community, faith, cultural, business, and labor organizations, developing leaders from within them
• Conduct Spanish-language voter contact and recruitment; support bilingual materials and volunteer capacity
• Run statewide virtual phone/text banks open to volunteers in any county
• Drive relational organizing adoption, coaching volunteers through setup and first outreach
• Connect volunteers to shifts in targeted turf with Regional Organizing Directors/Field Organizers
• Deliver trainings on canvassing, phone banking, relational organizing, and leadership
• Maintain accurate data in VoteBuilder and Mobilize; report weekly on key metrics
• Travel statewide to launch programs, support leaders, and staff events
• Troubleshoot issues, coordinate across Coordinated Campaign departments, and stay current on Party activities and Democratic news
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Commitment to Democratic values

Spanish proficiency

Campaign organizing experience

Volunteer recruitment

Relational tools

Virtual facilitation

Remote relationship-building

Team collaboration

Time management

Colorado politics familiarity

Tools

VoteBuilder/VAN

Mobilize

REACH

Job description

Colorado Democratic Party: Distributed Organizer

LOCATION

CO

SALARY

$21 - $21 (Hourly)

HEALTHCARE

Employer-sponsored health insurance offered

ARENA-TRAINED STAFF

This role was posted by Arena-Trained employer.

COMPANY

Colorado Democratic Party

DEPARTMENT

Organizing

EMPLOYMENT TYPE

Party

MINIMUM LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE

Departmental Staff (a role in a specific department. Ex: Organizer, Finance Assistant, Social Media Manager)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Salary

$21/hr; Non- Exempt, Union Covered

Benefits

Benefits include health and dental insurance, with vision insurance provided at $5.46/mo and $100 monthly cell phone stipend.

Union Membership

IBEW Local 113

Length of employment

Through November 15, 2026

Team Overview

The Colorado Democratic Party is seeking a skilled and experienced Distributed Organizer to join our growing team. 2026 features competitive races up and down the ballot in Colorado, including the election of John Hickenlooper (US Senate), Phil Weiser (Governor), Jena Griswold (Attorney General), Amanda Gonzalez (Secretary of State), and Jeff Bridges (Treasurer), alongside competitive US House races. The Coordinated Campaign will persuade and mobilize voters to support Colorado’s Democrats in November 2026.

Role Overview

Distributed Organizers work statewide rather than in a single assigned turf. Where a Field Organizer is responsible for a defined geographic area, a Distributed Organizer is responsible for a portfolio: college campuses, community and coalition partnerships, volunteer leadership development in the Colorado counties without assigned field staff, and statewide virtual voter contact.

The core product of this role is the volunteer leader. In counties where no staff member is standing, an unpaid local leader running their own team is the program. Distributed Organizers find those people, train them, keep them, and connect them to the campaign's tools, data, and turf. Distributed Organizers also recruit volunteers who live outside targeted turf and connect them to shifts inside it, in coordination with Regional Organizing Directors.

This position reports to the Distributed Organizing Director. Portfolio assignment will be determined based on candidate experience and program need.

Key Responsibilities

• Recruit, train, and retain volunteer leaders in counties without field staff, and support their teams

• Hold ongoing one-on-one meetings with volunteers and prospective leaders, virtually and in person

• Build organizing programs at assigned campuses (student orgs, student government, administration) and run student registration/re-registration

• Build relationships with community, faith, cultural, business, and labor organizations, developing leaders from within them

• Conduct Spanish-language voter contact and recruitment; support bilingual materials and volunteer capacity

• Run statewide virtual phone/text banks open to volunteers in any county

• Drive relational organizing adoption, coaching volunteers through setup and first outreach

• Connect volunteers to shifts in targeted turf with Regional Organizing Directors/Field Organizers

• Deliver trainings on canvassing, phone banking, relational organizing, and leadership

• Maintain accurate data in VoteBuilder and Mobilize; report weekly on key metrics

• Travel statewide to launch programs, support leaders, and staff events

• Troubleshoot issues, coordinate across Coordinated Campaign departments, and stay current on Party activities and Democratic news

• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills & Background

• Commitment to Democratic values; professional Spanish proficiency (spoken/written)

• One cycle of campaign, community, labor, faith, or student organizing experience

• Proven track record recruiting, training, and retaining engaged volunteers

• Experience with VoteBuilder/VAN, Mobilize, peer-to-peer texting; REACH or similar relational tools preferred

• Strong virtual facilitation skills (Zoom trainings/phone banks)

• Self-directed; able to build relationships remotely

• Campus, community, faith, or labor organizing experience preferred

• Excellent communication, people skills, and patience

• Strong time management under competing deadlines

• Positive, versatile team player and self-starter

• Familiarity with (or willingness to learn) Colorado's all-mail voting, ballot chase, and cure period

• Comfortable cold calling

• Must have a valid driver's license, reliable mode of transportation and the ability to travel extensively at times throughout the state for more than a day at a time;

Equal Opportunity Statement

The Colorado Democratic Party is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. We are better able to grow and learn together with a diverse team of employees. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents not only part of our culture, but our reputation and achievement as well.

In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.