Legislative Campaigns Program Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy
Diane Hoskins
FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGNS PROGRAM COORDINATOR
DESCRIPTION: The Federal Legislative Campaigns Program Coordinator provides administrative and project management support to staff of The Nature Conservancy’s Federal Legislative Campaigns Team in the External Affairs Department. The Federal Legislative Campaigns
Team designs and implements federal legislative campaigns, serves as a link between The Nature Conservancy state chapters and its US Government Relations Department in support of federal policy campaigns, and engages TNC volunteer leadership in policy campaigns.
Our team’s expertise includes campaign development and implementation, grasstops stewardship, lobby materials development, policy engagement across the organization and coalition management. The Program Coordinator does not supervise any staff but may supervise
interns and volunteers and reports to the director of the Federal Legislative Campaigns team. Applicants should be prepared to work really hard on incredibly relevant issues in a fast-paced environment for an amazing organization.
SPECIFIC DUTIES INCLUDE:
- Provides administrative support to Federal Legislative Campaigns team; manage and track expense reports, set up meetings, grasstops database entry, schedule and coordinate appointments, meetings, and conference calls for staff.
- Tracks Team activities for reporting purposes and manages Team meetings including scheduling, managing agenda and providing follow-up.
- Support outreach activities of the Team including sign-on letters, field communication and outreach, coalition relationships.
- Administers Oak Leaf Alliance program including registration, data management and support of stewardship activities such as web ex programs, events, briefings.
- Assists with research, writing or editing of documents, including issue briefs, staff campaign alerts or team plans.
- Coordinate communications and logistics on events such as trustee training or lobby events, hill briefings, coalition meetings, campaign planning committees and assists with USGR cabinet meetings.
- Conduct research that will help identify and mobilize grasstops support TNC volunteer leaders and other partners.
- Facilitate coordinate of Federal Campaigns and Marketing teams on Use Your Outside Voice and other public facing initiatives.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS:
• Bachelor’s degree and 1-2 years successful administrative/coordination experience in government relations or community outreach, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience and strong interest in political or issue/ballot campaigns and/or national politics. Capitol Hill experience and/or event planning experience a plus.
• Demonstrated excellence in verbal and written communication skills in English; ability to proofread work for grammar and spelling.
• Ability to work and communicate with a diverse group of people, including Trustees, government and legislative associates, volunteers, the public and other staff.
• Strong computer proficiency in Microsoft Office as well as database management and simple data analysis skills required. Knowledge of SharePoint-based systems preferred. Must be willing to learn other computer programs as needed.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to organize time and manage diverse activities. Meet deadlines.
• Comfort with the Conservancy’s non-adversarial, non-partisan, solution-oriented approach.
• Ability to work effectively with and through others in a decentralized and geographically dispersed international organization.
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing circumstances, opportunities and priorities.
For more information and to apply, please visit www.nature.org/careers and search for job ID# 39928 in the keyword search.
Deadline to apply is April 13, 2012.
The Nature Conservancy
4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203
The Nature Conservancy is an Equal Opportunity Employer
The Nature Conservancy is a 60 year old non-partisan, non-profit organization whose mission is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. We have nearly a million members and projects and offices in every U.S. state.
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K. Diane Hoskins
Federal Legislative Campaigns; U.S. Government Relations
The Nature Conservancy
Speak Up For Nature. Use Your Outside Voice at
outsidevoice.org <http://voice.nature.org/>