3 policy manager jobs found in Washington, DC

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a dynamic and results-oriented program manager of U.S. journalist safety to lead our work supporting journalists and media professionals, as well as their allies and employers, amidst an increasingly hostile environment for press freedom in the U.S. This is a full-time, union-eligible position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters; applicants based in Washington, D.C. will also be considered. The position reports to the Director of Digital Safety and Free Expression in the Free Expression Programs department. This position has an initial 12-month term subject to extension contingent on funding. The program manager will drive forward our work to support journalists and media professionals, as well as their allies and employers, in the face of online abuse, threats, and other intimidation tactics in the U.S. by managing and growing our journalist safety training...

About the Legal Aid Justice Center: The Legal Aid Justice Center is a nationally recognized, non-profit organization that partners with low-income clients and communities of color in Virginia to fight for racial, social, and economic justice. We understand that the harms our clients endure are inextricably linked to overarching systems of injustice. Together we are dismantling those systems through a combination of community organizing, litigation, policy advocacy, public relations, and individual legal services.   Founded in 1967, LAJC has offices in Charlottesville, Richmond, Petersburg, and Falls Church and provides services under six key program areas: Civil Rights & Racial Justice (focuses on the criminal legal system), Housing & Consumer Justice, Youth Justice, Health Justice & Public Benefits, Immigrant Justice, and Worker Justice. As examples of LAJC’s recent work, our lawsuit and organizing against the state forced reform of Virginia’s...

Chief Talent Officer The School District of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) seeks an experienced, mission-oriented, and transformational leader to serve as its next Chief Talent Officer (CTO). The CTO will be a critical member of the District’s leadership team and will develop and oversee a comprehensive strategic approach to strengthening all human capital and human resources (HR) functions. This work, along with the CTO’s ability to lead effectively through change, will be essential to achieving Superintendent Watlington’s ambitions for SDP to be the fastest-improving public school district in the nation. This is an exciting opportunity for a human resources executive with a record of strengthening systems and teams to positively impact the District's human capital functions, benefiting all District employees and, by extension, the thousands of students across Philadelphia. Recently, educational outcomes,...