Position: Seattle Organizer 

Starting Salary Range: $65,000-$70,000  

Benefits include full medical, dental and vision coverage, Simple IRA match up to 3% of salary, transit pass, and generous vacation and holidays (starting at 15 days per year of vacation, plus a week off between Christmas and New Years, and 11 other paid holidays). 

Position Type: Temporary (one year) full-time position; the position is hybrid, with regular in-person events and meetings. Employees must live in Washington State.  

 

About Futurewise 

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests, and water resources through wise land use policies and practices. 

We are a small but growing nonprofit, leading nationally groundbreaking policy development, advocacy and legal strategies in our field. 

In the last five years, Futurewise has won major victories in the state legislature that require cities and counties to increase housing abundance and affordability, dismantle exclusionary zoning, prevent displacement, combat health disparities and environmental injustice, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and foster transit-oriented, climate resilient communities for all. These new state requirements build on Futurewise’s longstanding priorities to protect the beloved ecosystems, local food systems, and natural beauty of Washington State. 

 

General Job Description 

Now Futurewise seeks a talented and energetic organizer to lead on our work on the Seattle Comprehensive Plan and the zoning changes that will follow. Futurewise co-chairs the Complete Communities Coalition with a broad-based steering committee that identifies and advocates for shared priorities across the housing, business, environmental, and community development landscape with both inside lobbying and grassroots organizing tactics.  

The Seattle Organizer will work closely with the Director of Local Advocacy and the Communications staff to lead this campaign. The Organizer will be responsible for recruiting and mobilizing grassroots supporters, cultivating volunteer leaders, coordinating with partners, and collaborating on the external advocacy strategy to advance policy goals.  

This is an opportunity to work in a dynamic, inter‐disciplinary, and innovative work environment, experimenting and using your creativity to build a more sustainable and equitable future for communities in Washington State. 

 

Position Details 

Strategy Development 

• Support development and implementation of local advocacy organizing strategy to maximize constituent power citywide   

• Coordinate organizing strategy with lobbying and policy development 

• Evaluate and adjust strategy as needed 

Recruiting and Engaging Allies 

• Attend coalition partner meetings 

• Recruit and engage new partners and allied organizations  

• Provide tools for allies to engage their members and help us identify leaders in key neighborhoods 

• Create action alerts and other action opportunities for allies   

• Recruit individual supporters from opponent groups 

Communications (in collaboration with Communications team) 

• Collaborate on compelling campaign messaging and narrative 

• Collaborate with grassroots activists to share their stories in media and with council members and engage media outlets to generate coverage 

• Share communications pieces and priorities with partner organizations 

Mobilizing and Growing Grassroots Supporters 

• Use internal and external databases (Futurewise supporters and relational organizing tools) to recruit grassroots supporters 

• Build strong relationships with individual supporters and identify local community leaders to become Futurewise advocates 

• Manage regular phone-banking and text-banking operations with supporters 

• Help local supporters engage other organizations they are part of to bring in new partner organizations and neutralize opponents 

• Assist supporters with petition gathering, letters and calls to legislators, public testimony, letters to the editor and op-eds in local news sources  

• Coordinate with grant reporting 

 

Qualifications 

• At least 1 year of experience organizing through community organizations, labor, electoral campaigns or other similar efforts 

• Experience building relationships and trust with people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Ability to be strategic and creative in real-time response to changing campaign circumstances 

• Flexibility to work independently and collaboratively, maintaining clear communication 

• Experience with database software (such as Salsa Engage, NGPVAN, Empower), email marketing platforms (such as Salsa Engage), word processing, and social media platforms and/or ability to learn new platforms quickly 

• Ability to work some nights and weekends 

• Interest and familiarity with the issues of climate change, environmental justice, and housing affordability 

 

Project Location 

As a hybrid workplace, some work can be remote with the expectation of regular in-person meetings, events, and other volunteer engagement in Seattle. Employees must live in Washington State.  

 

Application Process  

Please submit the following in pdf to [email protected]: 

• Cover letter  

• Resume  

• Three references  

Please make the subject line of your email “Seattle Organizer – [Your Last Name]” and address the cover letter to Hiring Manager. Please label all submitted materials with your last name. Priority review will be given for applications submitted by the end of day, August 4, 2025.  

The position is open immediately until filled. For full consideration, please provide materials as soon as possible. No phone calls please. Due to the large number of applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted. 

 

Equal Opportunity Employment  

Futurewise is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity in all areas of our operations. We are committed to equal opportunity employment and promotion for all qualified persons without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, military or veteran status, the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability, pregnancy and childbirth, family responsibilities, or any other basis protected by applicable laws, regulations, or guidelines relating to discrimination in employment.  

For more information visit the Futurewise website, www.futurewise.org.