Anti-Hate Table Manager

Department: Domestic Policy

Position classification: Exempt, Full-Time

Summary

American Progress has an immediate opening for an Anti-Hate Table Manager. This person will oversee partnership coordination and provide communication support, policy analysis, research, and written support for CAP’s efforts to reduce the influence of anti-immigrant strategists and anti-immigrant rhetoric in the immigration debate. This person will have day-to-day responsibility for managing CAP’s collaboration with allied organizations opposing hate in the immigration debate, called the anti-hate table. This position is part of CAP’s immigration team and is supervised by a Senior Fellow.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate activities of anti-hate table, including:
  • Acting as a primary liaison with partner organizations
  • Working with table members to identify and support shared work
  • Developing with Senior Fellow and table members the agendas for quarterly meetings, then managing the logistics of those meetings
  • Coordinating projects involving multiple table members such as overseeing small group meetings and conference calls; tracking shared work; following up on partner commitments; and identifying, interpreting, and addressing organizational capacities, differences, and interests
  • Implementing and moderating online discussion tools to support research and dissemination of research by and among table members
  • Working with CAP and partner organizations’ communications staff to ensure effective communication and dissemination of research to reduce the influence of anti-immigrant and/or hateful rhetoric
  • Tracking federal and state policy developments and directing the anti-hate table’s strategic response to those developments as appropriate, including rapid response, action items, authoring or commissioning original research or analyses, and authoring or commissioning original policy proposals
  • Researching, writing, and editing policy reports, analysis, fact sheets, columns, and other materials on a wide range of timely topics reflecting the implications of hateful rhetoric and organized anti-immigrant strategists on justice, fairness, and democracy, and supporting the Immigration Team in the same efforts
  • Participating actively and as appropriate in the planning and strategy efforts of the broader CAP immigration team such that anti-hate work benefits from, contributes to, and is fully integrated into broader CAP strategy and capacity
  • Coordinating with CAP's other policy departments on crosscutting issues such as health care, faith, economics, energy, and national security
  • Coordinating with CAP staff in other departments working on issues of hateful rhetoric and organized efforts to undermine the rights of people of color and religious minorities
  • Representing CAP in diverse settings including meetings with civil rights organizations, academics, researchers, advocates, media, conferences, and panel discussions

Qualifications and requirements:

•     Bachelor's degree required, graduate degree preferred
• Four or more years experience in policy, academia, and/or advocacy research with an understanding of anti-immigrant strategies and rhetoric
• Excellent writing, research, and analytical skills
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team as both a leader and committed member
• Ability to prioritize, multitask, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of state and federal legislative and administrative policymaking processes
• Strategic thinker with ability to initiate and engage in creative approaches to advancing policy
• Spanish speaker preferred
• Familiarity with 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) regulations preferred
• Commitment to CAP’s mission    

Additional Information

American Progress operates two separate nonprofit organizations to maximize our progressive agenda: The Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund. This job posting refers collectively to the two organizations under the name “American Progress.” The Center for American Progress is a non-partisan 501(c)(3) tax-exempt research and educational institute. It undertakes research, public education and a limited amount of lobbying. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a non-partisan 501(c)(4) tax-exempt organization dedicated to achieving progress through action. It works to transform progressive ideas into policy through rapid response communications, legislative action, grassroots organizing, political advocacy and partnerships with other progressive leaders. The organizations share office space and employees.

American Progress is an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

For more information on the Center for American Progress, please go to www.americanprogress.org.

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To apply, simply e-mail your Word resume and cover letter attachments to: jobs@americanprogress.org.

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Center for American Progress
1333 H Street, NW, 10th Floor – Domestic Policy Search
Washington, DC 20005

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