OSF’s DC Advocacy Program and its lobbying affiliate, the Open Society Policy Center, are located in Washington D.C. They conduct and support advocacy on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.  This position reports to the Deputy Director, who directs domestic policy advocacy.

Job Description:

• Develops and evaluates complex policy advocacy strategies and leads sophisticated advocacy campaigns
• Creates original policy recommendations and advances them using established contacts with key decision-makers within the U.S. government and influential organizations
• Authors, co-authors, and edits policy reports, memos, issue briefs and other documents on complex issues related to subject of expertise
• Regularly represents OSF as lead expert at meetings in Washington, D.C., and globally
• Maintains a broad network of relationships with high-level officials in the U.S. government and other key players within the policy community
• Leads and manages major advocacy coalitions and works closely with leaders of other organizations and OSF grantees
• Crafts persuasive advocacy messages and authors high-quality written materials for a range of audiences
• Develops advocacy and grantmaking budgets and manages consultants in area of expertise
• Solicits, vets and recommends consultancies and grants and drafts write-ups and eligibility assessments
• Reads and analyzes complex statutes and drafts legislative language for bills and amendments
• Contributes original content for op-eds, blogs, and websites, represents OSF in the media, provides direction to communications staff on media strategies, and may develop relationships with key reporters
• Interprets the U.S. political environment and serves as a policy expert and resource for other OSF programs and makes significant contributions to multi-program efforts in area of expertise
• Co-supervises a Policy Associate and may supervise a Research Assistant or Law Clerk

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/education.
• At least 10 years of experience working for non-profits or government in a senior role
• Demonstrated experience and effectiveness with most of the job duties
• Policy expertise in at least two of these areas: civil rights; criminal justice; voting and elections; health care; economic justice (budget/tax/consumer finance/wages); civil liberties; media; government ethics; and Puerto Rico debt and recovery.

Application instructions:  Please include a cover letter and resume (both required), and upload as one document when submitting an application.