Overview

The Elections Strategist/ Vote WFP Campaign Manager will ensure that we are executing an excellent campaign that mobilizes New Yorkers to vote on the Working Families Party ballot line for Governor in the November election. The Vote WFP campaign is an opportunity to talk to thousands of New Yorkers and give them an opportunity to vote as a progressive. 

By state law, WFP is required to get a minimum of 130,000 votes or 2% of the total votes cast, whichever is greater, on the WFP ballot line for Governor in order to remain a political party on the ballot in New York. We aim to surpass this goal and energize the New York electorate through the campaign. The Campaign Manager will serve as the internal lead in executing the overall 2022 Vote WFP campaign plan. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Lead our staff team in successfully implementing the Vote WFP campaign plan by:
  • Organizing and leading internal campaign strategy and implementation meetings across teams to ensure all staff are aligned on strategy, goals, execution and operations 
  • Supporting the campaign team to execute the Vote WFP field, political, communications, and organizing programs  
  • 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
  • Identifying areas of concern and promptly and proactively leading efforts, with leadership and team members, to find and implement course corrections
  • Quickly standing up new efforts, evaluating their effectiveness and making decision on whether to continue, scale up or deprioritize/discontinue investment
  • Upholding standards and expectations around campaign execution and ongoing reporting
  • Facilitating cross-team collaboration, including helping teams navigate who they should coordinate with on certain tasks and setting up huddles, brainstorm sessions and check-in meetings, as needed
  • Assist in engaging WFP affiliate organizations, labor and community partners, member leaders, culture and political surrogates in the campaign, as needed
  • Track expenditures and ensure adherence to the Vote WFP budget
  • Regularly report on the campaign to Campaigns Director, State Director and Deputy State Director and ensuring they are involved in key decisions, discussions, accountability conversations 
  • Work with your supervisor to guide and amend campaign strategy; (de)prioritize efforts; revise the budget, goal, discrete strategy and tactical areas, etc. Ensure leadership has the information needed to make informed and timely decisions
  • Be prepared to shape strategy, tactics and operations of all things related to the Vote WFP campaign
  • Following the election, develop debrief memo, lead debrief sessions, work across the team to ensure we have correctly captured all necessary data and filed important documents  

Skills and Qualifications

  • Experience managing at least three electoral, legislative and/or organizing campaigns with at least one of them being electoral 
  • 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 NYS progressive politics and issue areas and relationships with NY elected officials, labor unions, and community groups, preferred

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