Manager, Events and Outreach

By Andrew B. Einhorn Jul 08 2008, 05:34 PM

The New America Foundation is seeking a communications professional with 4–8 years experience to manage, expand, and improve our wide range of public policy events. The ideal candidate will have a love of public policy and the DC media world, and the proven ability to conceive and organize successful, substantive events. If you're a people person and a policy wonk, with the desire to work closely with talented colleagues across a wide range of issue areas, this is a job worth discussing.

Primary Responsibilities

Plan and execute events ranging in size from small dinners to large-scale, multi-day conferences.
Build audiences that meet program needs in terms of both audience size and composition.
Coordinate with new media colleagues to bring New America events online via webcasts, electronic Q&A, etc.
Coordinate with communications colleagues to maximize post-event press coverage and impact.
Scout, select, and contract event sites.
Help to manage, update, and cultivate New America's extensive contact database, which comprises media, opinion leaders and public affairs audiences.
Continually build own understanding of New America's programs, individuals and ideas in order to more effectively promote them.

Qualifications

Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:

Outstanding organizational skills, excellent time management, and the ability to manage complex operations in a fast-paced environment;
4-8 years of professional communications experience;
Proven track record conceptualizing and organizing events;
A strong working knowledge of and relationships with the Washington, DC, media market;
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills;
An energetic, team-player attitude; and
A bachelor's degree is required.

Application Process

E-mail a resume and cover letter and to: Human Resources, New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20009. Fax: 202-986-3696. E-mail: jobs@newamerica.net. Please state “Manager, Events and Outreach” in the e-mail subject line. No phone calls, please. Generous salary package commensurate with experience; excellent benefits. The New America Foundation is an equal opportunity employer.

About New America

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The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States.

New America emphasizes work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy -- an era shaped by transforming innovation and wealth creation, but also by shortened job tenures, longer life spans, mobile capital, financial imbalances and rising inequality.

The foundation's mission is animated by the American ideal that each generation will live better than the last. That ideal is today under strain. Our education and health care systems are struggling with problems of quality, cost and access. The country requires creative means to address its fiscal challenges and pay for needed public, social and environmental investments. Abroad, the United States has yet to fashion sustainable foreign and defense policies that will protect its citizens and interests in a rapidly integrating world.

Too often, these challenges have proven impervious to conventional party politics and incremental proposals. With an emphasis on big ideas, impartial analysis and pragmatic solutions, New America invests in outstanding individuals whose ability to communicate to wide and influential audiences can change the country's policy discourse in critical areas, bringing promising new ideas and debates to the fore.

Launched in 1999, the foundation was guided through a period of rapid growth by founding president Ted Halstead. The insititute is now led by President and CEO Steve Coll and an outstanding Board of Directors, chaired by Eric Schmidt. New America is headquartered in Washington D.C. and also has a significant presence in California, the nation's largest laboratory of democracy.