Ohio Election Strategist
Ohio
Mid Atlantic /
Temporary - Part Time /
Hybrid
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.
The Working Families Party is seeking an experienced, detail-oriented, and multi-talented individual to fill the critical role of Ohio Election Strategist. This is a part-time position.
The Election Strategist will ensure that we are executing excellent campaigns that mobilize Ohioans to vote in alignment with the Working Families Party endorsements while simultaneously building grassroots engagement in WFP, including leaders, activists, and members, across many communities.
The ideal candidate will possess significant electoral campaigning experience; has managed campaigns or significant independent expenditure efforts; has the capacity to design, evaluate and oversee electoral programs and coach candidates and campaigns.
The Ohio Election Strategist will serve as an advisor for OH WFP campaigns, and will guide the development of OH WFP strategy for supporting state and local candidates and campaigns.
This position will be supervised by the Ohio State Director and includes opportunities for professional development in organizing, elections, legislative work, and communications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Campaign and Elections
- Assist Ohio Political Director in organizing and leading internal campaign strategy and implementation meetings across teams to ensure all partners are aligned on strategy, goals, execution and operations.
- Developing, updating and sharing campaign calendars, project management systems, internal and external memos and materials.
- Ongoing tracking of progress to goal, including direct voter contact metrics, press and social media clips, surrogate engagement, and other quantitative and qualitative goals.
- Work with your supervisor to guide and amend strategy, deprioritize efforts, revise the budget, goal, discrete strategy and tactical areas, etc. Ensure leadership has the information needed to make informed and timely decisions.
- Following elections and projects, develop debrief memo, lead debrief sessions, work across the team to ensure we have correctly captured all necessary data and filed important documents.
- Hold 1:1 meetings to assess leaders interested in running for office and/or working on political campaigns.
- Monitor political opportunities, grow a candidate watch list and work with partners on candidate recruitment events and opportunities to recruit leaders in priority areas.
- Develop, strengthen and activate new and existing relationships with partners, local leaders, community stakeholders, and members to identify grassroots and progressive candidates to run for office.
- Plan and execute public trainings for progressive candidates, organizers and campaign staff interested in working in the progressive movement.
- Provide support with WFP social media strategies to be used as a tool for increased member and volunteer engagement.
- Conduct research and outreach in the community to identify key issues to create and test specific civic engagement and voting messages in-person and on social media.
- Aid with the ongoing work of fundraising including raising money from WFP members.
Candidate Recruitment and Development
Additional Responsibilities
Skills and Qualifications
- A deep commitment to progressive values and the mission of the Working Families Party.
- Experience working on at least three electoral, legislative and/or organizing campaigns with at least one of them being electoral.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and motivate diverse groups of people.
- Strong project management skills with a proven ability to ensure various, distinct parts of a campaign are executed coherently and to a high standard.
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with a high degree of comfort facilitating meetings, getting to strategic decisions, assessing effectiveness and impact, and quickly pivoting to execution.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends from time-to-time, but especially during early voting, GOTV weekend and Election Day.
- Familiarity with Ohio progressive politics and issue areas and relationships with OH elected officials, labor unions, and community groups, preferred.
- Familiarity with voter contact tools, data management systems, and digital organizing techniques is a plus.
What Else Should You Know
- Salary: The salary range for this position is $30-$35/ hour. The final salary will be determined based on an internal equitable scale that takes into consideration years of experience, geographic location, and final job description.
- Location: The position requires weekly in-person work with opportunities to work remotely when possible. This role requires significant driving. Employee needs to have a car and be willing to travel around the state.
- Schedule: This is a temporary, part-time position. This contract will end October 31, 2025.
- 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.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Working Families 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 jobs@workingfamilies.org with the subject line "Application Accommodation" to request such an accommodation.
