Advocacy Manager, Poverty -- Center for American Progress

[Eliza Schultz]

Hi all,

The Center for American Progress is hiring an Advocacy Manager. See the listing here and pasted below.

Reports to: Vice President, Poverty to Prosperity Program

Department: Poverty to Prosperity

Staff reporting to this position: Yes

Position classification: Exempt, full-time

Summary

American Progress has an immediate opening for an Advocacy Manager on the Poverty to Prosperity team. The Advocacy Manager will support the policy team by collaborating with national and local partner organizations, elected officials, the media, and other influencers to coordinate advocacy efforts and campaigns around the team’s policy priorities. The Advocacy Manager will also work with the editors and producers of the TalkPoverty blog and the weekly radio show at TalkPoverty.org to identify opportunities and strategies to advance solutions to cut poverty and boost opportunity. Finally, the Advocacy Manager will help develop a national network of low-income people and service providers who share their personal stories with American Progress in order to take action on the Center’s priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Work with national- and state-level stakeholders and coalitions to build support for key federal and state priorities.
• Develop and oversee the Poverty to Prosperity national story network by engaging low-income people and service providers to share their personal stories and deploying them to the media and policymakers in support of the team’s priorities.
• Support the team’s messaging and communications strategy by identifying timely and creative opportunities in the media to frame our products and policy proposals as part of larger national conversations about poverty and income inequality.
• Work with other teams at American Progress to leverage the organization’s full communications, outreach, and grassroots resources toward building support for policy priorities.
• Support the Vice President with grant reporting, fundraising, budgeting, and other team administrative needs.
• Other duties as required.

Requirements and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least three years of experience in communications or advocacy for a nonprofit/advocacy group or campaign.
• Exceptional project management experience with very strong attention to detail and the ability to manage quick-turnaround deliverables, as well as long-term strategy implementation, reporting, and metric-tracking.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Experience working in a coalition with national organization partners.
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Experience implementing an issue-based communications strategy, including utilizing social and traditional media effectively.
• Excellent writing and editing skills; must be able to convey complex issues in clear and simple terms.
• Self-starter, entrepreneurial, and creative thinker.
• Ability to absorb key policy issues and debates quickly and thoroughly.
• Commitment to the organization’s mission and goals.
• Ability to work as part of a team.

American Progress provides a competitive compensation and benefits package.

American Progress is an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.  

To apply

E-mail your Word resume and cover letter attachments to: jo...@americanprogress.org.

Or you may write to: Center for American Progress, 1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor, Washington, D.C., 20005.

In your correspondence, please reference the exact title of the job you are applying for in the subject line. This announcement will remain posted until the position is filled. No phone calls, please.

Please note that only those individuals whose qualifications match the current needs of this position will be considered applicants and will receive responses from American Progress.

Thank you for your interest in American Progress.

Additional information

American Progress operates two separate nonprofit organizations to maximize the progressive agenda: the Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This job posting refers collectively to the two organizations under the name "American Progress." The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) tax-exempt research and educational institute. It undertakes research, public education and a limited amount of lobbying. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization dedicated to achieving progress through action. It works to transform progressive ideas into policy through rapid-response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing, political advocacy, and partnerships with other progressive leaders. The organizations share office space and employees.

For more information on the Center for American Progress, please go to www.americanprogress.org. For more information on the Center for American Progress Action Fund, please go to www.americanprogressaction.org.