15 Policy jobs

About Urban Habitat Founded in 1989, Urban Habitat brings race and class to the forefront of transportation, land use, and housing policies to create a Bay Area where low-income people of color can live in just and connected neighborhoods. We partner with local organizations to win equitable policies and build power so low-income people of color can thrive and prosper in their communities. We are a small and nimble organization that helps build movement infrastructure for transformative change that addresses structural inequities impacting historically disenfranchised communities. Position Overview The Program Manager of Equitable Development will report to the Director of Housing Justice and provide policy analysis, research, technical assistance, and advocacy support to local and regional policy and advocacy campaigns that advance equitable development through land use planning, housing, transportation, and climate justice. Much of this work will take place within...

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is the leading advocacy organization in the United States exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of low-income immigrants and their loved ones. NILC’s mission is grounded in the belief that everyone living in the U.S. - regardless of race, gender/gender identity, immigration, and economic status - should have equal access to justice, resources, and educational and economic opportunities that enable them to achieve their full human potential. Leveraging its 501(c)4 affiliate, the Immigrant Justice Fund (NILC IJF), and with a $22 million annual operating budget and 70 staff members, NILC combines policy advocacy and litigation, movement power building and narrative and culture change strategies to both strengthen the legal protections for immigrants and shift the public debate toward the notion that everyone regardless of their place of birth or socioeconomic status has a stake and constructive role to play in shaping...

About SF Parents  SF Parent Coalition is a 501c3 nonprofit with a political affiliate arm, SF Parent Action. Our parent advocacy collective was formed during the summer of 2020, in response to the pandemic education crisis when, in San Francisco, local education leaders were ignoring family voices and disregarding the needs of students. The grassroots movement began by going out into communities, listening to parents of all backgrounds, and then lifting up their concerns and desires to school district leaders and the S.F. Board of Education. In just a few months, the group grew from 100 parents to more than 1,000, with members from more than 70 schools in SFUSD. We now have more than 5,000 parents and supporters who subscribe to our newsletter, more than 2,000 people in our private Facebook forum, and we have parent representation from 110 local public schools in San Francisco within our network. We advocate for issues that resonate most with our families, currently with an...

Join us in the fight to hold Wall Street accountable and make finance work for - not against - working families and communities.  Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) is seeking a Senior Policy Analyst to push for effective regulation of banking and capital markets to protect the economy from financial instability and address the ways in which an unaccountable financial sector drives inequality and racial injustice.      AFREF played a leading role in winning passage of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform law and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; we have helped move scores of financial regulations to better serve the public interest; and we are driving the fight for broader transformations of the financial system to advance economic, racial, and social justice. AFREF’s staff works in collaboration with a coalition of more than 200 consumer, civil rights, labor, community-based, and other organizations, along with academics and policy...

Our Mission The mission of Teach Plus is to empower excellent, experienced, and diverse teachers to take leadership over key policy and practice issues that affect their students’ success. Since 2009, Teach Plus has developed thousands of teacher leaders across the country to exercise their leadership in shaping education policy and improving teaching and learning to create an education system driven by access and excellence for all.  What We Do At Teach Plus, we advance teacher leadership student opportunities and outcomes. When we invest in developing our most talented teachers into teacher leaders who are well-informed, persuasive, and prepared to lead, they can advance equity for students, especially for students of color, low-income students, and those from underserved communities. To close the opportunity gap and to ensure equitable access to world-class education for all students in the schools and communities we serve, we ignite systems change at...

Overview:    The Associate Vice President of Strategic Communications and Policy oversees the development, implementation, and assessment of the organization’s communications and marketing strategy, as well as the development of all external communications and marketing materials and projects. They collaborate internally to identify and develop opportunities to highlight the organization’s thought leadership and externally to develop and nurture relationships with other organizations that have shared communication and policy objectives.    Job Summary:   As a lead member of the organization, they direct org-wide processes or initiatives, supervise staff, serve as internal capacity builders, and ensure quality for multiple and/or high stakes projects. They thrive in a collaborative work environment, possess a strong commitment to educational equity and professional growth and are ready, willing and able to engage in dialogue about race and identity to...

Background on UTEC, INC.: UTEC’s promise is to ignite and nurture the ambition of our most disengaged youth to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. UTEC’s outcomes-focused model begins with intensive street outreach, reaching proven high-risk youth “where they’re at.” UTEC engages youth in workforce development and educational programs and provides intensive case management. Social justice and civic engagement are embedded in all programming. For more info, please visit www.utecinc.org. Serving young adults throughout Merrimack Valley (Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill), UTEC was founded in 1999 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping young adults (ages 17-25) overcome the very real challenges of poverty, gang involvement, unemployment. UTEC reaches 500+ youth annually through an evidence-based model aimed at reducing recidivism while increasing education and employment attainment   Job Summary: UTEC is looking for an innovative,...

About RESULTS RESULTS Educational Fund (RESULTS) is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people using their voices to bring an end to poverty. Since 1980, RESULTS has identified the highest-impact policy solutions to poverty and cultivated an advocacy movement that secured the political leadership, focus, and resources to get the job done. They have worked to change dozens of government policies, help pass legislation, and unlock tens of billions of dollars in government funding for the fight against poverty. With a shared goal of ending poverty, RESULTS is a non-partisan organization with a nation-wide network of volunteer advocates who utilize the incredible power of their voices to change the world.    The Opportunity RESULTS seeks an exceptional seasoned leader and decisive strategist to help propel its mission and vision forward. This is an exciting opportunity for an entrepreneurial systems-thinker who is passionate about the mission of RESULTS to end...