Advocacy/Lobbying jobs | Impact Opportunity

Sep 23, 2023

Program Director and Senior Attorney, Power & Democracy Featured

$161,000 yearly

Who we are: Situated at the forefront of the national stage in the racial justice movement, Advancement Project National Office is a cutting-edge, no-holds-barred national nonprofit whose team members are dedicated to creating free and safe communities for people of color. From ending the school-to-prison pipeline to the fight to expand the right to vote, from fighting for immigrant justice, Advancement Project National Office team members impact real change from the ground up. This moment demands alignment, sharp strategic thinking, and creativity to imagine a more just world in which racism no longer exists and all people of color can be free and safe – and we are excited to bring on new talent to change our world. Since the 2000 presidential election, Advancement Project has been a leader in voter protection, supporting grassroots organizations in year-round election administration efforts and building national narratives to push back on voter suppression. Through...

Advancement Project Hybrid Full-Time

Sep 21, 2023

Senior Manager, Membership Featured

$78,000 - $85,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide, seeks an innovative, energetic, and highly organized senior manager for our national Membership initiative. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the Director, National Outreach and Engagement. PEN America’s strength lies in its membership—which includes a nationwide community of novelists and nonfiction authors, journalists, editors, poets, screenwriters, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, and other literary professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters who join with them to carry out PEN America’s mission. The senior manager will help develop and implement strategies for attracting new members and retaining existing ones. They will be responsible for implementation, with a focus on increasing members...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Sep 21, 2023

Research and Advocacy Lead, China Featured

$90,000 - $103,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks an experienced human rights practitioner to spearhead research and advocacy on China and free expression in our PEN/Barbey Freedom To Write Center. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters or Washington, D.C. office, reporting to the Director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center. President Xi Jinping has overseen an extensive crackdown on free expression in China, implementing new laws and censorship controls on the internet, media, and publishers. The Chinese government’s extensive censorship apparatus limits free expression both within and outside its borders, making it a key area of work for PEN America. We seek to break down barriers to free expression through our reports, advocacy, and building solidarity between American writers and their Chinese colleagues. The research and advocacy lead will chart a research and advocacy...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Sep 21, 2023

Senior Manager, PEN Across America Featured

$75,000 - $80,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a senior manager to lead its PEN Across America program, developing and sustaining our national network of chapters. The senior manager will mobilize PEN America Members, local and regional art and literature communities, as well as other supporters and community allies to address threats to free expression, engage with literature, and otherwise link PEN America’s mission to issues of local concern. They will create and help implement strategies and programs, develop regional and local leadership, nurture partnerships, and cultivate funders. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York headquarters and requires substantial travel, including outside of regular work hours and on occasional weekends. The senior manager will report to the Director, National Outreach and Engagement. The PEN Across America senior manager will bring PEN America’s mission to a...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Aug 18, 2023

Board Member Featured

Triage Cancer is seeking a candidate for our Board who is passionate about our mission and believes in our work. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic about using their expertise, experience, and networks to help the organization build sustainability and advance our goal of helping individuals diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers. The Board supports the work of Triage Cancer and provides mission-based leadership, development support, and strategic governance. Day-to-day operations are led by Triage Cancer’s CEO and COO. Board member responsibilities include: Development & Fundraising So that Triage Cancer can credibly solicit contributions from foundations, organizations, and individuals, Triage Cancer expects to have 100 percent of Board Members make an annual contribution that is commensurate with their capacity. Triage Cancer board members are asked to give an amount that is personally meaningful of at least $500 and meet an additional minimum...

Triage Cancer Remote Board Member

Aug 15, 2023

Director, PEN America Florida Featured

$120,000 - $140,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization defending and celebrating free expression, seeks a forward-thinking, innovative Director to establish PEN America in Florida. The Director will build the programming, public profile, partnerships and funding to advance PEN America’s mission across the state, drawing on PEN America’s established expertise and national staff as well as its Florida-based constituency, including donors, supporters, and a volunteer-led Miami/South Florida chapter. This exciting new role requires an entrepreneurial approach, the ability to spot openings for free expression advocacy and literary activism, and the versatility to represent PEN America in a wide range of settings. The position will be based in Miami, reporting to PEN America leadership at its New York City headquarters. PEN America is establishing its Florida office as expression in the state is being constricted through the banning of books in schools and libraries, controls on education...

PEN America Hybrid (Miami, FL, USA) Full-Time

Aug 02, 2023

Director, Democracy and Justice Program Featured

Established over two decades ago by Alan V. and Amy Lowenstein, the Institute undertakes dynamic and independent advocacy aimed at toppling load-bearing walls of structural racial inequality to create just, vibrant and healthy urban communities of color. The Institute employs a broad range of advocacy tools to advance our ambitious racial and social justice agenda, including research, analysis and writing, public education, grassroots organizing, communications, development of pilot programs, legislative strategies and litigation. As was the case at our founding, this moment calls for racial and social justice advocacy inspired by the fierce urgency of now. In recent years, Jim Crow-like voter suppression has swept across America. The time is now for not only meaningful voting reform, but to also evaluate how we can transform civic engagement and expand democracy in New Jersey. We continue to serve as a leading voice in designing, advocating for and implementing...

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Newark, NJ, USA Full-Time

Sep 22, 2023

Staten Island Community Organizer

$56,766 - $60,637 yearly

What you’ll do and the impact you'll make: Chapter Building – Recruit due pay members and assist in the maintenance of the regional board. Use issues and electoral campaigns as a way to grow the chapter through outreach strategies that grow the dedicated base of volunteers. Outreach and Recruitment - Create an outreach and recruitment plan alongside leader builds for chapter meetings, committee meetings, mobilization efforts, and campaign tactics. Use organizing tactics such as phone banking, text banking, and canvassing in order to grow chapter members. Lead weekly outreach events with members. Administrative - Work with staff to manage the chapter’s VAN requirements such as updating VAN with weekly one-on-ones, volunteer activities, and volunteer profile. Work with the Data Coordinator to create recruitment phone banks and canvass lists. Legislative – Work with the lead organizer and member leaders to create outreach strategies based on legislative campaigns...

Citizen Action of NY NY, USA Full-Time

OR

Sep 07, 2023

Vice President, Legal

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a teacher in need, moving us closer to a nation where students in every community have the tools and experiences they need for a great education. Since 2000, more than 5 million people and partners have contributed $1 billion to support 2 million teacher requests for classroom resources and experiences. Projects range from art supplies to build the set for a school musical, to books and puzzles that affirm students' identities, to bird seed for an at-home science project. We proudly serve all US public schools, public charter schools, and Head Start centers, and we combat systemic inequity by driving a majority of donations to schools that have been historically underfunded due to economic and racial inequity (Equity Focus Schools). DonorsChoose has been recognized as a best place to work by GOOD Magazine and the Nonprofit Times, while Fast Company named DonorsChoose one of the...

On-Ramps Hybrid Full-Time

NE

Aug 30, 2023

Staff Attorney, Work Structures

$94,200 - $118,500 yearly

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) seeks a dynamic and skilled person to join our Work Structures team as a Staff Attorney or Senior Staff Attorney . You will join a team of experts who are working with partners to (1) combat anti-worker corporate labor contracting practices, such as the misuse of temporary help and staffing agencies and the misclassification of employees as independent contractors; and (2) devise and advance pro-worker policies that ensure employer accountability, expand workers’ access to rights, and build worker power and fundamental rights. Who We Are Founded in 1969, the nonprofit National Employment Law Project (NELP) is a leading advocacy organization with the mission to build a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs. Together with local, state, and national partners, NELP advances its mission through transformative legal and policy solutions, research, capacity building, and...

National Employment Law Project Hybrid Full-Time

NE

Aug 30, 2023

Senior Staff Attorney, Work Quality

$94,200 - $118,500 yearly

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) seeks a dynamic, experienced, and skilled person to join our Work Quality team as a Senior Staff Attorney to advance NELP’s programs and policy campaigns . You will join a team of experts who are working to build worker power and fundamental rights by fighting to raise job standards, enforce hard-won workers’ rights, and support racial equity. This is an extraordinary opportunity to leverage your talent and join a team that ensures worker-driven policies are at the forefront of current and future worker rights in the U.S. labor market. Who We Are Founded in 1969, the nonprofit National Employment Law Project (NELP) is a leading advocacy organization with the mission to build a just and inclusive economy where all workers have expansive rights and thrive in good jobs. Together with local, state, and national partners, NELP advances its mission through transformative legal and policy solutions, research, capacity building,...

National Employment Law Project Hybrid Full-Time

OR

Aug 23, 2023

Head of Philanthropy

ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Chicago CRED is a dynamic and impactful organization working to achieve a transformational reduction in violence in Chicago. With a goal of reducing gun violence by 80% over a five-year period, the organization centers its model on the belief that the individuals most at risk are not the problem—they are the solution. Through collaboration, innovation, and community engagement, CRED tackles the root causes of violence and inequality. Chicago CRED provides participants with access to mentors, licensed therapists, education tutors, and comprehensive job training, empowering individuals to break cycles of violence and poverty. In partnership with Emerson Collective, Chicago CRED was founded in 2016 by Arne Duncan, a former U.S. Secretary of Education and CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Operating with a staff of nearly 125 and an annual budget of over $30 million, Chicago CRED forges partnerships with community organizations, businesses, philanthropists,...

On-Ramps Chicago, IL, USA Full-Time

Aug 07, 2023

Program Manager of Transportation Justice

$68,000 - $82,000 yearly

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 Transportation Justice will report to the Director of Advocacy and Policy Campaigns and provide policy analysis, research, technical assistance, and advocacy support to local and regional policy and advocacy campaigns that advance transportation justice. This includes building the relationship between the transportation, mobility, and...

Urban Habitat Hybrid (We are working in the office two days a week.) Full-Time

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