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AFR has been called “the leading voice for Wall Street accountability” in Washington. Help us continue and grow this important work.  Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) is seeking a Research Director to oversee and manage the research agenda, design, and produce research materials, supervise research staff, and coordinate with communications, campaign, and policy colleagues to fulfill AFR’s mission. AFREF played a leading role in winning passage of the Dodd Frank Financial Reform law and the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; and we are driving the fight for broader transformations of the financial system to advance economic, racial, and social justice. AFREF’s staff develops policy and strategies in collaboration with a coalition of more than 200 consumer, civil rights, labor, community based, and other organizations, along with academics and other experts. The Research Director will draw on their own research, policy and advocacy...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a high-caliber strategic policy institute that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build opportunity. It has a national reputation for conducting rigorous research and analysis, developing evidence-based policy ideas and strategies, shaping a broad array of policy debates at the federal and state levels, and influencing policy outcomes on a range of critical issues. It focuses on improving the lives of people with low or moderate incomes and examines how policies affect particular groups, including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people. The Center is known for its unique capacity to blend rigorous, timely analysis with effective communications that enable policymakers and the media to make use of its work.   The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is seeking applicants for the State Policy Fellowship Program to work as...

Explore Careers in Public Policy The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a high-caliber strategic policy institute that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build opportunity. It has a national reputation for conducting rigorous research and analysis, developing evidence-based policy ideas and strategies, shaping a broad array of policy debates at the federal and state levels, and influencing policy outcomes on a range of critical issues. It focuses on improving the lives of people with low or moderate incomes and examines how policies affect particular groups, including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people. The Center is known for its unique capacity to blend rigorous, timely analysis with effective communications that enable policymakers and the media to make use of its work. The Center seeks highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students (including law), as...

Reports to:   Video Director, Production Staff reporting to this position:   None Department:   Communications Position classification:   Nonexempt, full time; Union - Level 4 Minimum compensation:   $56,000 Summary American Progress has an immediate opening for a full-time Events Video Producer to join its growing creative team. American Progress hosts a diverse range of events with progressive leaders and policy experts that highlight bold, innovative ideas to address the nation’s most pressing problems. The Production team is looking for applicants who can envision and create compelling videos to amplify American Progress’ events for its broadcast and beyond. A strong candidate for this role should have the technical skills to broadcast and live switch events. In collaboration with the Events team, the Events Video Producer will need the strategic perspective to produce, edit, and manage promotional material, in-program interstitials, and wrap-up/post-event...

Fund for a Safer Future (FSF or the Fund), a national donor collaborative with a vision of a country where everyone is safe from gun violence, seeks applications and nominations for Executive Director . Launched in 2011 and housed at the New Venture Fund, the Fund’s mission is to strengthen the gun violence prevention community’s capacity to develop and implement smart policy, mobilize supporters, summon the best available research, expand the capacity of community violence intervention programs, advance Second Amendment litigation strategies, and resist the gun lobby’s opposition to common sense reform. More than 30 members strong, FSF is working to reduce gun violence by supporting community-based solutions, research, and state and federal policy change. After ten successful years, FSF seeks to engage its first fulltime Executive Director to more actively manage grantmaking, donor engagement, and fundraising objectives. With a strong track record in raising funds and...

Role: Advocacy Manager Reports to: Senior Advocacy Staff Location: Remote Hours: Full-time About Trevor The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people. We are a non-profit that provides 24/7 life-saving support via phone, text, and chat. We also operate the world’s largest safe space social networking site for LGBTQ youth and run innovative research, education, and advocacy programs. We’ve been saving lives every day for over 20 years. Overview of the role The Trevor Project’s Advocacy team seeks to provide high impact programs to help prevent LGBTQ youth from entering crisis and advance The Trevor Project’s mission to end suicide among LGBTQ young people. The Advocacy Manager will lead life-saving advocacy and policy initiatives at the local, state, and federal level for a variety of key issues facing LGBTQ youth...

Malnutrition is one of the greatest barriers to the world’s poorest people escaping poverty. The 900 million people in Africa and Central America who eat corn daily are some of the most affected, with nearly half of Guatemala’s children suffering from stunted growth.   Semilla Nueva   launched the world’s first social enterprise dedicated to the development, production, and sale of more nutritious, biofortified corn seed directly to small farming families. Farmers buying our seed increase their yields and incomes, while improving the diets of hundreds of thousands— and someday millions—of the world’s poorest consumers. Semilla Nueva is currently expanding our model to work with other seed companies, the Guatemalan government, and partnerships in other countries. In 2021, our fourth year of sales, our seed reached 11,000 families directly and over 20,000 through partnerships. Semilla Nueva capitalizes on the scientific achievement of the world’s leading scientists at...

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) seeks an organized and highly-motivated individual to support the organization’s development function. Working on a part-time, contractual basis, the Development Associate will provide key operational support to the development team, maintaining NCTQ’s funder database and assisting with portfolio development and diversification. The Development Associate will play an important role in identifying and qualifying new prospects including foundations and major donors. NCTQ’s mission is to ensure that every child has access to an effective teacher and that every teacher has the opportunity to become effective. We achieve this mission by bringing data to bear on key teacher quality issues and challenging the institutions with the most influence over the teacher workforce to improve. Our staff all work remotely which is well suited for the dynamic and fast-paced nature of our work. The Development Associate will work an estimated 20...

Reports to:   Director of Design Staff reporting to this position:   Associate Director of Design: Social Media Design Associate/Graphic Designer Department:   Advocacy and Outreach Position classification:   Exempt, full time Minimum compensation:   $62,000/$75,000 Summary American Progress has an immediate opening for a Senior Social Media Designer or Associate Director of Design to join a growing creative team within the Advocacy and Outreach department. The department’s mission is to develop innovative and compelling visual content that builds the emotional and visual case for progressive policies, values, and candidates. The successful candidate will work as part of a team that creates infographics, advertisements, websites, email newsletters, and videos. The Senior Social Media Designer’s responsibilities will include providing across-the-board design support for the department’s social channels and partners and staying up to date with the latest political...

CHCS is seeking a dynamic and highly-organized individual to serve as a Program Officer focused on child health policy and programs, particularly in the area of children’s behavioral health. The position will work in a team-based structure to design and carry out initiatives that improve the outcomes of care for children from early childhood through transition age, many of whom have complex health and behavioral health needs and are involved in multiple public systems. The individual in this position will work on projects that focus on children receiving publicly-financed health, behavioral health, child welfare and early childhood services. The ideal candidate will have some knowledge of - and some experience with - policy and practice related to these areas. Some understanding of Medicaid financing is also preferable.   This full-time, mid-level position will report to a senior-level manager and is based in the CHCS office, near Princeton, NJ. Occasional local and...

Title: Vice President of Finance Reports to: President Status: Exempt Date: December 2021 THE ORGANIZATION: Woods Fund Chicago (WFC) is a bold grantmaking foundation that finds and funds projects that draw on the power of communities to fight the brutality of structural racism and economic injustice. It promotes social, economic, and racial justice through the support of community organizing and public policy advocacy that engages the people that are most impacted. Visit woodsfund.org for more information. The foundation was incorporated in the state of Illinois in 1993. The foundation’s current endowment exceeds $65 million. WFC gave out $3.6 million in grants in 2021 and the 2022 grantmaking budget is $3.9 million. THE ROLE: The Vice President of Finance (VPF) is a critical partner to the President, and a peer to the Vice President of Programs. This is the top financial position with responsibility for overall financial management, formulating financial policy and...