Deputy Director, Get America Working

We are looking for an experienced Deputy Director to join our team and help us to advance the mission of Get America Working.

The Deputy Director will act as a liaison between Get America Working and various stakeholder groups and use communications and media relations approaches in their efforts. You will grow effective relationships with federal agencies, trade associations, media, research institutions and coalitions in pursuit of our mission.

To ensure success, you need to have outstanding knowledge of the legislative process and have a clear understanding of our mission. Top candidates will have experience in public affairs and strategic partnership development, media relations, and excellent communication and people skills.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and implement strategies to influence legislation and policy at the local, state, and federal level
• Develop relationships with key constituency groups and individuals
• Monitor and analyze legislative and regulatory developments
• Represent the organization in public forums
• Design and execute communications materials
• Other duties as required

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in lobbying or government relations, public relations/affairs, journalism, or advocacy
• Knowledge of the legislative and regulatory process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to manage multiple tasks
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong problem-solving and creative solution skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Knowledge of state and federal lobbying laws

Core Criteria

• Entrepreneurial Quality: Compelled to take creative initiative and ownership (e.g. founding an organization or company, starting a movement, or re-shaping the work of an existing organization). Demonstrates relentless and realistic how-to-thinking and passion for seeing their ideas come to life.
• Understanding and Belief in the Everyone a Changemaker: Understands and believes the Everyone a Changemaker vision at a gut level. To be able to innately ‘get’ this, candidates should have a broad and inquisitive intellect and a thinking pattern that connects the dots between historical trends and current social context.
• Emotional and Social Intelligence: Ability to work efficiently and respectfully in teams, putting organizational/team goal first (personal glory second).
• Ethical Fiber: Exceptionally strong ethical behavior. Is self-reflective and has strong empathy skills. Trustworthy.
• Self-Definition: The person expects that changing the world in big ways and on a continental scale is what he/she will do in life.

About Ashoka:

Ashoka is the world’s largest community of leading social entrepreneurs, having pioneered the field of social entrepreneurship over 40 years ago. We support a robust network of more than 4,000 Ashoka Fellows in 90 countries who have successfully implemented systems-changing solutions to human and environmental problems globally. By learning from and collaborating with our Fellows and other social entrepreneurs, Ashoka identifies patterns and key levers to help society gain a new framework for living in the world as a changemaker.

Our current work is centered around the “Everyone a Changemaker” (EACH) movement, which stems from our belief that everyone has the potential and responsibility to make positive change in an ever-changing world. We continue to grow a global movement of social entrepreneurship, recognizing that the rate of change is accelerating and our problems are growing faster than our solutions.

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