Jobs and Internships

Details at-a-glance

Schedule: Full-Time

Application Deadline: June 13, 2022

Start Date: July 11, 2022

Salary: $95,000-$107.000/year

Location Requirement: Washington, DC

Summary

RESULTS supports a movement of passionate, committed everyday people using their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. Our network of volunteer advocates is supported by a staff of researchers, policy analysts, and legislative and media experts. Our shared goal is the end of poverty. We have affiliates and partners across five continents, and a network of volunteers in all 50 states.

RESULTS is looking for an Associate Director, Communications, to drive the organization’s communications and media strategy. The Associate Director is responsible for strategy and execution across three areas:

1. Advocacy communications – Driving message and communications strategy to advance our grassroots advocacy campaigns, with a particular focus on anti-oppression, political strategy, and nonpartisanship.
2. Media for advocacy – Leading a media strategy focused on specific policy objectives and building long-term influence on members of Congress and the Administration.
3. Institutional communications – Developing messaging and key tools to help achieve advocacy, fundraising, and expansion targets, as well as overall organizational health and visibility.

Success in the role depends on sharp media and communications skills; a keen understanding of policy and advocacy; and a deep commitment to anti-oppression and to the power of grassroots advocacy. The Associate Director should be eager to dive in on leading day-to-day communications, with the vision to expand the department’s future reach and impact.

A key part of the portfolio – and focus for future growth – is supporting experts with lived experience of poverty in their media work. Individuals with their own personal experience of RESULTS campaign issues are strongly encouraged to apply.

This is a supervisory role, and works closely with a range of legislative, grassroots, expansion, and fundraising staff.

Key responsibilities:

 Advocacy communications

• Lead campaign message development and create written materials, including policy “explainers,” background packets, blog posts, and timely advocacy and media tools.
• Coach grassroots volunteers and staff in effective messaging, with a particular focus on anti-oppression, non-partisanship, political influence, and countering harmful narratives around poverty.
• Maintain a detailed understanding of RESULTS advocacy campaign strategy and activities, to shape cross-cutting institutional materials, track and communicate accomplishments, provide public-facing updates, and highlight grassroots actions and impact.

Media for advocacy

• Lead media relations and secure regular strategic coverage of key policy issues in top-tier national media, and lead national opinion media writing and placement.
• Design strategies to support RESULTS advocates with lived experience of poverty in their work with the media, including tailored media training, coaching, drafting support, pitching, and media relationship management, working in close collaboration with the Senior Associate, Experts on Poverty.
• Regularly evaluate the highest-impact approach to media for impact on Capitol Hill.
• Provide strategic guidance to staff and volunteers who are running a decentralized local media strategy across all 50 states.
• Produce traditional media materials, including press releases, media briefs, letters to the editor, and op-eds.

Institutional communications

• Design messaging to set direction for RESULTS organizational communications, working with development and campaigns teams to ensure consistency in brand, voice, and message strategy.
• Produce core marketing and collateral materials in partnership with Creative Manager.
• Provide strategic direction to RESULTS staff and volunteers for communicating the work and vision of the organization, including with the media.

Additional Duties and Management

• Manage relevant communications staff, consultants, and vendors.
• Manage budget to meet the portfolio’s goals.
• Contribute to the annual International Conference and other cross-cutting campaigns team and organizational projects.
• Contribute to fundraising efforts and grant reporting as needed and relevant to core portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Extensive experience in communications and media, with a focus on policy change.
• Readiness to develop and lead a cross-cutting communications strategy.
• Clear commitment to the mission of the organization, to anti-oppression, and to the leadership of people with firsthand experience of poverty.
• Political savvy, and experience distilling complex policy issues into compelling, easy-to-understand content.
• Demonstrated track record in effective media relations, and in successfully generating opinion and news media.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills in a variety of styles – from pithy web content to op-eds to detailed policy briefs.
• Outstanding relationship building, cultural competency, and interpersonal skills, with experience working with a wide range of people and communities.
• Strong professional diplomacy and leadership skills, with the ability to incorporate diverse opinions, receive feedback, and adapt.
• Creativity, energy, patience, openness to change, and a constructive approach to problems.

Benefits

Health Insurance

• For all staff and their families, RESULTS Educational Fund pays 100% of the premiums and out-of-pocket costs (deductibles, co-pays, prescriptions, etc.) for our CareFirst reference plan, which includes medical and dental coverage.
• Coverage begins on the first day of the month following (or coinciding with) your start date.
• Employees may opt to select a plan with higher coverage by paying the difference in premiums between the reference plan and the plan they select 

Flexible Spending Accounts

• RESULTS offers flexible spending accounts for medical, dependent care, and transportation/parking costs to which employees may contribute with pre-tax payroll deductions.
• Employees are eligible for flexible spending accounts on the first day of the month following 90 days of employment up to the limits allowable by the IRS.

Retirement & Other Benefits

• RESULTS offers a 401(k) Retirement Plan which has both pre- and post-tax contribution options.
• Employees are eligible to enroll on the first day of the month following their date of hire.
• To enroll, an employee must designate an individual contribution (via payroll deductions) and choose from among a variety of investment options.
• In addition, RESULTS will begin making an employer match on the first day of the month following an employee’s one-year service anniversary. Under a Safe Harbor Agreement, RESULTS has agreed to match 100% of the employee contribution up to 3% of salary, then match 50% on any additional contributions up to 5% of salary.
• RESULTS also offers short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. Short term disability insurance monthly benefit maximum: 60% of weekly earnings to a maximum of $1,500. Long-term disability insurance monthly benefit maximum: 60% of monthly earnings to a maximum of $6,000. The life insurance benefit amount is one year’s salary up to $150,000 maximum. The effective date for this coverage is the employee’s date of hire.

Annual Leave

• RESULTS offers generous paid annual leave earned on an accrual basis and carried forward from year-to-year but capped at the following levels: 15 days of vacation, 10 days of sick leave, and 5 days of personal leave.
• All leave (other than emergency sick leave) must be approved in advance by the supervisor.
• New employees will earn leave pro-rata based on their date of hire and may use vacation and personal leave upon successful completion of 90 days of employment.
• RESULTS generally observes nine (9) official holidays each year. In addition, all offices are closed between the Christmas Day and New Year’s Day holidays with no requirement to use annual leave.

How to apply

Equal opportunity statement:

RESULTS believes that poverty cannot end as long as oppression exists and is committed to creating an equitable workplace. People of color, members of LGBTQ+ communities, and people with firsthand experience of poverty are strongly encouraged to apply.

RESULTS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, disability, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation.

Process for applying:

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and interviews will be scheduled with qualified candidates. Due to the volume of submissions, we will not be able to respond to all applicants. Please send cover letter and resume to [email protected], along with 1-3 work samples. Email subject line: “Associate Director, Communications”.

Details at-a-glance

Full-time schedule

Salary: USD $60,000-$69,000/year

Location requirement: Washington, DC

Summary

The ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership is a group of 15 locally rooted independent member organizations around the world, advocating together with allies and champions for a world where all people have equitable access to health. The partnership, which was established in 2004, is supported by a secretariat located in Washington, DC, and hosted by RESULTS Educational Fund. This position is temporarily remote, but applicants must be in the DC area.

Our mission is to influence policy and mobilize resources to fight diseases of poverty and achieve equitable access to health. In 2017, ACTION launched its Strategic Framework for 2017–2021 to focus its advocacy on three thematic pillars: 1) ending the epidemics; 2) giving all children a healthy start, with equal opportunity for girls and women to thrive; and 3) building equitable and sustainable systems. These pillars represent objectives that we seek to achieve by enhancing our impact, influence, and partnership, so we can galvanize political will to achieve the ambitious sustainable development agenda.

Reporting to the Advocacy Manager, Ending the Epidemics, the Senior Associate, Ending the Epidemics (R&D) is responsible for supporting ACTION partnership advocacy, policy research, and policy analysis. Relevant issues under this portfolio of work include tuberculosis (TB) and emerging infectious diseases; research and development (R&D); and cross-cutting global health campaigns, including the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the Stop TB Partnership (STBP), and others.

Job Description

The Senior Associate, Ending the Epidemics is responsible for supporting ACTION partners and coordinating their advocacy efforts on relevant issues. They will help ACTION partners achieve partnership strategic goals, and support partner work planning, grant reporting and donor engagement related to the issue areas in this portfolio. The Senior Associate spearheads the civil society engagement through the ACTION partnership on CEPI and will work directly with the Advocacy Manager, ACTION Secretariat Director, and others on the ACTION team to integrate workstreams across the various issues and coordinate partnership efforts to meet grant objectives.

Key responsibilities

Support the implementation of the ACTION partnership strategy and drive CSO engagement on CEPI

• Support the development and implementation of ACTION’s CEPI advocacy strategy and manage the planning, coordination, and implementation of ACTION campaigns and moments related to CEPI.
• Support the development of a coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) working to support the CEPI replenishment campaign and facilitate meaningful cross-coordination and engagement with other global health initiatives and platforms.
• Convene CSOs; monitor CEPI policies; and facilitate knowledge management, communication, information sharing, and documentation of key tools, resources, reports, case studies, and analyses for CSOs on CEPI to build capacity of other coalition partners for collective impact and accountability.
• Advise and support ACTION partners and leadership on CEPI
• Lead ACTION’s engagement on CEPI through CSO coordinating bodies and governance structures; backstop meeting participation and develop joint position papers, analyses, and policy briefings.
• Lead integration of work on CEPI across all portfolios and support ACTION partners in achieving partnership and grant objectives.
• Lead the reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of data from the partnership for the purposes of reporting to donors. This includes creating monthly updates, preparing progress reports of key grant milestones and deliverables in the CEPI portfolio and ensuring that donor reporting aligns with grant objectives.

Support the Advocacy Manager with the implementation of the “Ending the Epidemics” portfolio

• Support the strategy development and coordination of the partnership’s work on the Ending the Epidemics portfolio, focusing on CEPI advocacy, global health R&D, and STBP collaboration.
• Support partners in developing ambitious annual workplans and producing insightful reporting for the Ending the Epidemics portfolio and other cross-cutting issues and provide oversight to program/grant related processes, such as partner workplan and budget reviews and approvals.
• Assist the Advocacy Manager in coordinating portfolio meetings and calls, including scheduling across multiple teams and organizations, developing and distributing agendas, and recording and disseminating notes and follow-up items.
• Support the partnership in conceptualizing and leading high-impact advocacy campaigns, setting research and analysis goals based on partner needs that are relevant to the portfolio priorities.
• Track processes, objectives, discussions, and policies to identify opportunities for ACTION to influence policies and decision-making in major institutions, platforms, and moments.
• Support the reporting, monitoring, and evaluation of data from the partnership for the purposes of reporting to donors, including creating monthly updates, preparing progress reports of key grant milestones and deliverables in the Ending the Epidemics portfolio and ensuring that donor reporting aligns with grant objectives.
• Coordinate with the Grants and Development teams on grant compliance and donor engagement.

Lead communications, branding and thought leadership related to the portfolio

• Drive the communications and lead the production of informative briefings, blogs, newsletter content, op-eds, email updates, social media, and other communications materials on CEPI and global health R&D and integrate TB and other relevant issues for the partnership under the Ending the Epidemics portfolio.
• Represent ACTION in external constituencies, such as relevant committees, delegations and working groups and present on behalf of the partnership when needed.
• Amplify the work of ACTION, build the ACTION brand, and identify opportunities for advancing ACTION’s thought leadership relevant to the portfolio.

Qualifications

A successful candidate will have:

• 4-5 years’ experience in global health, international advocacy and/or policy, or relevant field.
• Undergraduate degree preferred (a Bachelors in a related discipline, such as health/science policy, international relations/development, political science, economics, sociology, social sciences, etc.).
• Understanding of advocacy to sustain and expand financing, donor commitments, and political support for critical MNCH+N programs, TB, HIV, malaria, and broader PHC.
• Familiarity with global development, including issues such as women and girl’s health, health systems, health financing, and COVID-19 and its linkages to all pillars of ACT-A and the Global Fund.
• Experience working internationally, in a developing country, or within an international network or secretariat.
• Self-motivated, strategic, creative, and able to work comfortably both independently and as part of a team with a positive demeanor.
• Able and willing to manage up and across teams to meet deadlines and drive priorities forward.
• Detail-oriented to uphold structures and systems necessary to delivering on ambitious goals and strategy.
• Strong presentation and meeting facilitation skills, communications skills (both written and verbal in English), and knowledge of social media.
• Ability to work effectively across cultures, time zones, and work styles.
• Ability to travel internationally if needed.
• Fluency in French and other language fluency is a plus.

Level of Language Proficiency

Fluency in French and other language fluency is a plus.

Location

Washington, DC

Benefits

Health Insurance

• For all staff and their families, RESULTS Educational Fund pays 100% of the premiums and out-of-pocket costs (deductibles, co-pays, prescriptions, etc.) for our CareFirst reference plan, which includes medical and dental coverage.
• Coverage begins on the first day of the month following (or coinciding with) your start date.
• Employees may opt to select a plan with higher coverage by paying the difference in premiums between the reference plan and the plan they select.

Flexible Spending Accounts

• RESULTS offers flexible spending accounts for medical, dependent care, and transportation/parking costs to which employees may contribute with pre-tax payroll deductions.
• Employees are eligible for flexible spending accounts on the first day of the month following 90 days of employment up to the limits allowable by the IRS.

Retirement & Other Benefits

• RESULTS offers a 401(k) Retirement Plan which has both pre- and post-tax contribution options.
• Employees are eligible to enroll on the first day of the month following their date of hire.
• To enroll, an employee must designate an individual contribution (via payroll deductions) and choose from among a variety of investment options.
• In addition, RESULTS will begin making an employer match on the first day of the month following an employee’s one-year service anniversary. Under a Safe Harbor Agreement, RESULTS has agreed to match 100% of the employee contribution up to 3% of salary, then match 50% on any additional contributions up to 5% of salary.
• RESULTS also offers short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. Short term disability insurance monthly benefit maximum: 60% of weekly earnings to a maximum of $1,500. Long-term disability insurance monthly benefit maximum: 60% of monthly earnings to a maximum of $6,000. The life insurance benefit amount is one year’s salary up to $150,000 maximum. The effective date for this coverage is the employee’s date of hire.

Annual Leave

• RESULTS offers generous paid annual leave earned on an accrual basis and carried forward from year-to-year but capped at the following levels: 15 days of vacation, 10 days of sick leave, and 5 days of personal leave.
• All leave (other than emergency sick leave) must be approved in advance by the supervisor.
• New employees will earn leave pro-rata based on their date of hire and may use vacation and personal leave upon successful completion of 90 days of employment.
• RESULTS generally observes nine (9) official holidays each year. In addition, all offices are closed between the Christmas Day and New Year’s Day holidays with no requirement to use annual leave.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and interviews will be scheduled with qualified candidates. Due to the volume of submissions, we will not be able to respond to all applicants. Please send a one-page writing sample, cover letter, and your resume to [email protected] subject line: “Senior Associate, Ending the Epidemics (R&D).” Please also tell us in your email where you saw the job opening.

About ACTION

The ACTION Global Health Advocacy Partnership is a group of 15 locally rooted independent member organizations around the world, advocating together with allies and champions for a world where all people have equitable access to health. The partnership, which was established in 2004, is supported by a secretariat located in Washington, DC, and hosted by RESULTS Educational Fund.

RESULTS believes that poverty cannot end as long as oppression exists and is committed to creating an equitable workplace. People of color, members of LGBTQ+ communities, and people with firsthand experience of poverty are strongly encouraged to apply.

RESULTS Educational Fund has partnered with Aspen Leadership Group in the search for an Associate Vice President for Development Strategy and Administration. You may view the position prospectus or submit an application via this link: https://opportunities.aspenleadershipgroup.com/opportunities/1071.

RESULTS Educational Fund has partnered with Aspen Leadership Group in the search for a Director of Development. You may view the position prospectus or submit an application via this link: https://opportunities.aspenleadershipgroup.com/opportunities/1070.

Details-at-a-glance

Full-time Position

Salary range: $66,000-$84,000

Location requirement: Washington, DC

RESULTS is seeking a Manager, Global Education Policy to join its Policy team. The right candidate will contribute to the organization’s advocacy strategy and policy portfolio on global education and building support for greater accountability within donor and international organizations.

RESULTS is an organization committed to ending poverty in the United States and around the world by using our voices to influence political decisions. We have helped pass legislation that has protected the health of millions of people in low-income countries and helped millions of families globally move out of extreme poverty. We also have backed policies and programs here in the United States that help people put food on the table and remain stably housed as well as tax policies that move millions of families over the poverty line.

We have done this over the last 40 years by creating a grassroots movement across the country, building strong relationships with members of Congress, engaging the media, and working with an array of partners throughout the country and around the world. We are committed to undoing systemic oppression and bringing an end to poverty such that every person has the opportunity to flourish.

Summary

Reporting to the Director, Global Policy and Advocacy, the Manager, Global Education Policy is responsible for developing and driving RESULTS’ advocacy strategy and policy portfolio on global education across a set of core objectives including: mobilizing resourcing for learning outcomes in low- and middle- income countries; increasing political support for action in key donor markets; and building support for greater accountability for learning outcomes within donor and international organizations.

Responsibilities

Global Education Advocacy

• Lead the development and implementation of RESULTS’ global education advocacy strategy.
• Lead the development of policy analyses, resource tracking, accountability tools, advocacy messages, and materials related to global education.
• Lead efforts to build political champions for action and accountability to address the global learning crisis.
• Represent RESULTS in global education coalitions, working groups, and events
• Provide supervision, management, and mentorship to at least one full time staff in support of RESULTS’ global education strategy.

Partnership Management

• Coordinate international partner global education advocacy efforts.
• Facilitate effective communication among global education advocacy partners.
• Support the development and track the implementation of global education advocacy partner workplans.  
• Lead the development of timely, high-quality reports to donors.
• Facilitate regular communication and coordination with institutional donors.

Supporting Grassroots advocacy impact and mobilization

• Support with issue-based content the Grassroots Impact Team in mobilizing grassroots volunteers in their engagement with members of Congress.
• Liaise with and provide issue content to the RESULTS Organizing and Advocacy Fellowship and collaborate with the program lead for the Fellowship to expand training on education issues and increase the effectiveness of advocacy and engagement by Fellows with policy makers.
• Support the inclusion of education as a top policy priority in our efforts to develop and strengthen partnership engagement with ally organizations.

Campaigns Team Support and Collaboration

• Ensure the effective integration of global education with RESULTS’ broader anti-poverty policy agenda and grassroots advocacy.
• Provide materials, training, and support to RESULTS grassroots network issue-based content for training and educational activities for the RESULTS grassroots volunteer network on global education advocacy.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of professional work experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of key global education policy issues, frameworks, and institutions.
• Experience developing and executing multi-stakeholder advocacy strategies.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively within a team and within the global advocacy network.
• Ability to work effectively across cultures, time zones, and work styles.
• Strong written communication skills in English, including the ability to synthesize complicated policy issues and tailor communications to a wide variety of external audiences.
• Commitment to RESULTS anti-oppression values.

Benefits

Health Insurance

• For all staff and their families, RESULTS Educational Fund pays 100% of the premiums and out-of-pocket costs (deductibles, co-pays, prescriptions, etc.) for our CareFirst reference plan, which includes medical and dental coverage.
• Coverage begins on the first day of the month following (or coinciding with) your start date.
• Employees may opt to select a plan with higher coverage by paying the difference in premiums between the reference plan and the plan they select.

 Flexible Spending Accounts

• RESULTS offers flexible spending accounts for medical, dependent care, and transportation/parking costs to which employees may contribute with pre-tax payroll deductions.
• Employees are eligible for flexible spending accounts on the first day of the month following 90 days of employment up to the limits allowable by the IRS.

Retirement and Other Benefits

• RESULTS offers a 401(k) Retirement Plan which has both pre- and post-tax contribution options.
• Employees are eligible to enroll on the first day of the month following their date of hire.
• To enroll, an employee must designate an individual contribution (via payroll deductions) and choose from among a variety of investment options.
• In addition, RESULTS will begin making an employer match on the first day of the month following an employee’s one-year service anniversary. Under a Safe Harbor Agreement, RESULTS has agreed to match 100% of the employee contribution up to 3% of salary, then match 50% on any additional contributions up to 5% of salary.
• RESULTS also offers short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage at no cost to employees. Short term disability insurance monthly benefit maximum: 60% of weekly earnings to a maximum of $1,500. Long-term disability insurance monthly benefit maximum: 60% of monthly earnings to a maximum of $6,000. The life insurance benefit amount is one year’s salary up to $150,000 maximum. The effective date for this coverage is the employee’s date of hire.

Annual Leave

• RESULTS offers generous paid annual leave earned on an accrual basis and carried forward from year-to-year but capped at the following levels: 15 days of vacation, 10 days of sick leave, and 5 days of personal leave.
• All leave (other than emergency sick leave) must be approved in advance by the supervisor.
• New employees will earn leave pro-rata based on their date of hire and may use vacation and personal leave upon successful completion of 90 days of employment.
• RESULTS generally observes nine (9) official holidays each year. In addition, all offices are closed between the Christmas Day and New Year’s Day holidays with no requirement to use annual leave.

Location

On-Site: 1101 15th Street NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20005, United States

How to Apply

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and interviews will be scheduled with qualified candidates. Due to the volume of submissions, we will not be able to respond to all applicants. Please send a one page writing sample, cover letter and your resume to [email protected] subject line: “Manager, Global Education Policy .”

RESULTS believes that poverty cannot end as long as oppression exists and is committed to creating an equitable workplace. People of color, members of LGBTQ+ communities, and people with firsthand experience of poverty are strongly encouraged to apply.