Specialist - Survivor Engagement, International Justice Mission - Washington, D.C. (Hybrid)

Title: Specialist, Survivor Engagement

Type: Full-time, Hybrid

Location: Washington, D.C.

Pay: Not listed

The Specialist, Survivor Engagement is responsible for the strategy, implementation, alignment to IJM’s global strategy, and day-to-day management of IJM’s Global Survivor Network (GSN) and other key Survivor Leadership initiatives to ensure meaningful engagement of people with lived experience. The Specialist, Survivor Engagement will collaborate with IJM’s global staff and with survivor leaders to strengthen the GSN, and to ensure IJM programs are informed by survivors.

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Policy Coordinator - Urban Institute - D.C.

For more information please visit: LinkedIn 

About Urban Institute:

At the Urban Institute, we believe in the power of evidence to improve lives and strengthen communities. As a nonprofit focusing on social and economic policy, our researchers and policy entrepreneurs open minds, shape decisions, and identify transformative solutions to the most pressing issues of our time.

 

Our Mission

To open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions through economic and social policy research.

 

Our Values

Collaboration, Equity, Inclusivity, Independence, and Integrity

For more information on the Urban Institute, please visit https://www.urban.org.

 

The Opportunity:

Central to Urban’s mission is fostering a truly inclusive community that ensures ongoing relevance to a changing world. The WorkRise is a major multi-year initiative focused on jobs, workers, and mobility that convenes and collaborates with often-siloed groups—employers, worker advocates, practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and philanthropists—to ensure the solutions we deliver are relevant and scalable. WorkRise aims to be a trusted resource for the data, evidence, and tools today’s leaders need to shape a more equitable, resilient labor market.

 

Urban is seeking a talented Policy Coordinator to join WorkRise’s grantmaking team, which designs and issues competitive solicitations for new research, manages the initiative’s growing portfolio of subawards, and supports grantees throughout the grants lifecycle. We are looking for a candidate who is interested in understanding and improving the economic stability and upward mobility of workers, especially low-wage workers, and working to dismantle the structural inequalities that disadvantage certain workers, especially women, Black workers, and other workers of color. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, intellectually curious, and excited about the role that evidence can play in shifting policy and practice.

 

What You’ll Do:

Coordinate:

• Assist with the organization, coordination, and management of grantmaking activities to advance the initiative’s research agenda.
• Collaborate with program and operations leads to plan requests for proposals and manage timelines and deadlines at each stage of the grantmaking cycle.
• Coordinate and facilitate application review and award-related decision-making on a fixed schedule.
• Contribute to planning and executing private and public events.

Engage:

• Support engagement with the academic, applied research, and other key stakeholder communities through WorkRise’s competitive grantmaking program and commissioned projects.
• Help recruit and maintain a body of active research advisors to review incoming research proposals and drafts of grantee products.
• Manage correspondence between advisors to ensure that reviewers receive materials and complete reviews in a timely fashion.
• Provide technical assistance and support to grantees throughout project implementation.

Organize:

• Maintain a database of grantee projects and deliverables coded by characteristics of interest and outcomes tracked for WorkRise’s measurement, learning, and evaluation.
• Regularly monitor grantee reporting requirements, review grantees’ progress, and flag issues and opportunities to the WorkRise team.
• Collect, summarize, and report on stakeholder data and feedback related to WorkRise’s grantmaking, and stay up to date on activities related to grantees’ research findings, including conferences and presentations, press coverage, and new partnerships.

Translate:

• Support the research and communications teams to prepare content for the WorkRise website, blog, and social media, to include drafting written summaries of relevant academic and applied research papers and other products for target audiences.

 

Who You Are:

Strong candidates will offer:

• Possess a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a social science or related field (e.g. public policy, political science, sociology, or economics) with 2-4 years of experience, or a combination of substantive policy knowledge, grants management, program coordination, and project management skills needed to perform the duties described above.
• Demonstrated interest in economic and labor market policy and research on issues related to labor markets and low-wage workers (e.g. employer practices, worker power, job search, skills and training, supportive services) as well as an open, curious, flexible approach to exploring evidence in emerging areas of policy and practice.
• Background or exposure to grantmaking, grants management, fundraising, or development.
• Effective and strong relationship management, including active listening, and the ability to engage and build trust with new and existing partners.
• Exceptional written communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• A track record of self-direction and an ability to work independently while juggling multiple projects and responsibilities, as well as a collaborative approach with an emphasis on teamwork for results
• A commitment to WorkRise’s core mission to support low wage workers, economic mobility, and equity in the U.S. labor market.
• Prior experience with Salesforce (preferred)

 

What You’ll Experience:

No matter your role with Urban, you will contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference for people and communities across the country. And whether you call the Washington, DC area or elsewhere home, you can expect to be part of a welcoming and hybrid workplace. We are committed to cultivating a community and working in a manner defined by collaboration, equity, inclusivity, independence, and integrity.

Urban’s greatest asset is our people.

Urban is committed to supporting our staff’s physical, emotional, and financial well-being through a robust benefits package for yourself, eligible dependents, and domestic partners. It includes generous paid time off, including nine federal holidays, medical (including prescription), dental and vision insurance, and transit benefits. Urban is unique in that we offer 403(b) retirement plan participation immediately after you’re hired and a generous employer contribution after five months of service and 1,000 hours, with immediate vesting. You’ll also have access to a health advocate, personal finance coaching, an Employee Assistance Program, and educational assistance for undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

 

As a federal contractor, Urban will comply with Executive Order (EO) 14042 that requires federal contractors, subcontractors, and their respective employees to comply with Covid-19 vaccinations. All Urban Institute employees must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and comply with masking and distancing requirements, regardless of responsibilities or work location. New hires must also be fully vaccinated before starting work. Employees may request exemption from vaccination against COVID-19 based on either a medical condition or a sincerely held religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated. Where such an exemption is approved, Urban will discuss with each employee potential accommodation.

The Urban Institute has formally recognized the Urban Institute Employees’ Union, which is part of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU). Urban management and the Union work together in good faith and are motivated by a shared commitment to this institution. This position is included in the Union-represented collective bargaining unit, and specific employment terms and conditions are subject to collective bargaining negotiations.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by the people assigned. This posting is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Urban management reserves the right to amend and change duties, responsibilities, and requirements to meet business and organizational needs as necessary.

The Urban Institute is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender or gender identity, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, veteran status, pregnancy or family responsibilities, matriculation, disability, political affiliation, or any other protected status under applicable law.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you have a physical and/or mental disability and are interested in applying for employment and need special accommodations to use our website to apply for a position, please contact Human Resources at humanresources@urban.org. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.

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Fellow (Director's Financial Analyst) - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Washington, D.C.

For more information and to learn how to apply please visit: USA Jobs

• Open & closing date 11/01/2022 to 11/28/2022

• Salary

  $48,106 - $81,826 per year

Summary
The Bureau's Director's Financial Analyst Program is a two-year rotational analyst program that will give a select number of recent college graduates with undergraduate degrees the unique opportunity to work with senior-level executives on some of the most critical issues facing consumer financial markets in the United States.
Duties
This position is located in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of the Director. Members of the Director's Financial Analyst Program will experience diverse roles, responsibilities, and areas of expertise. As a result, in a short period of time, analysts will play an integral role in everything the Bureau does, from rigorous data-driven policy creation and market monitoring to on-site supervision of market participants. All analysts will complete developmental rotations in offices throughout the Bureau. These rotations are designed to provide exposure to the analysis, strategy, research, education, policy development, supervision, enforcement, and rule making activities throughout the Bureau.

The following are the duties of this position at the CN-51, broadly equivalent to the GS-11. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.

• Extract data from data stores and perform ad-hoc or periodic queries for use by CFPB staff engaged in research and policy development. Provide feedback and suggestions on the queries and implement improvements.
• Mine data from selected data sources to arrive at specific information to conduct research and analysis of issues relating to consumer finance. Document the analyses performed to ensure that future verification and reproduction of results can take place. Seek out innovative, new sources of data to improve quality of analysis and incorporate them into analysis.
• Determine programming languages, analytical tools, data structures, and data logic to maintain data quality programs.
• Participate in the implementation of segments of new production and data storage systems to support research, inform consumers, guide the supervision of covered persons, and enforce rules relating to consumer financial protection.
• Support internal clients with analytical projects relating to the consumer finance markets and providers. Draft segments of reports, analyses and interpretations of data to CFPB staff to monitor business critical results. Assemble relevant data and other information from internal and external sources, including financial, banking industries, businesses, or regulatory agencies; and from commercial vendors, solving straightforward problems as they arise. Prepare drafts of findings for review by senior specialists.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

Key Requirements:

• Must be U.S. Citizen or U.S. National
• This position is being filled under the Bureau's excepted service authority.
• A two year trial period may be required.
• A trial period that will cover the full period of the appointment may be required.
• Public Trust - Background Investigation will be required.
• Complete a Declaration for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, at the time requested by the agency.
• Appointments under this authority will be made in the excepted service and do not convey competitive status
• This appointment may be extended.
• Have your salary sent to a financial institution of your choice by Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer.
• If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify that you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so.
• Go through a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process that requires two forms of identification from the Form i-9. Federal law requires verification of the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires in the U.S.
• Obtain and use a Government-issued charge card for business-related travel.

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the announcement's closing date.

Eligible applicants must be either:

• Current undergraduate students who anticipate graduation between December, 2022 and June, 2023; OR
• Individuals who have earned an undergraduate degree on or after April 1, 2020.

You MUST submit a copy of your transcripts or equivalent.

The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume.

For more information and to learn how to apply please visit: USA Jobs

Mapping Specialist, World Central Kitchen, DC

 Description

World Central Kitchen, Inc. (WCK) is looking for a Mapping Specialist to join the Strategy team. The incumbent will use mapping softwares and web development tools to visualize geospatial information in an impactful way in support of disaster Relief activations. The position will also focus on creating custom mapping tools that will provide key strategic insights using internal and publicly available data sets.

The Mapping Specialist will report directly to the Data and Visualization Manager and will collaborate with members of the Relief team to identify new geospatial solutions and continuously improve the existing ones.

This position is intended to be based in Washington, DC, and remote locations may be considered.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Produce detailed, high-quality static and interactive digital/web-based maps.
• Design and build maps to track environmental conditions, landscape changes, and damage levels to support planning and risk assessment in emergency and non-emergency situations.
• Integrate internal and external data sources to visualize progress of field operations and provide additional context to Relief activations.
• Develop and maintain map styles, map layers, shapefiles, and spatial data sets.
• Work with Communication and Data Visualization teams to ensure beautiful and impactful design of cartographic products for internal and public audiences.
• Use internal and 3rd party systems to create multi-layer map-based decision support tools that communicate ground team locations and enhance collaboration.
• Develop and steward relationships with the relevant technology and mapping partners to leverage external capacity and volunteerism.

Requirements

Skills & Experience:

• Prior experience designing, building, and maintaining digital/web-based maps.
• Experience delivering digital products with human-centric design.
• Expertise in visual/graphic design with strong attention to detail.
• Hands-on experience building maps in Mapbox is highly preferred (e.g., Mapbox Studio, Mapbox GL JS, Mapbox APIs, Tilesets, Mapbox Boundaries, etc.).
• Proficiency using scripting languages and mapping libraries for geospatial data analysis and data management (e.g., SQL, R/Python).
• Proficiency with front end design languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and various mapping libraries is preferred.
• Experience with web map APIs and application development.
• Demonstrate high-level competence in geospatial data analysis and cartographic tools, such as GIS software.
• Demonstrated skills in integrating and enriching location data from different sources and across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• Degree specialized in Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Web Development, or other related fields required.
• Minimum five years of experience building digital/web-based mapping tools.
• Minimum of five years of experience working with geospatial data analysis and data management (e.g., GIS).
• Minimum of four years of experience creating map and data-based content for communications.
• Minimum of four years of experience in any scripting programming language.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and translate mapping requirements into relevant geospatial tools.
• Operate pro-actively and independently and respond quickly to changing measures of success.
• Experience working as part of a project team from remote locations.
• Ability to travel for in-person office meetings and potentially to activation sites.

To keep our team and the communities we serve safe, we have robust COVID-19 safety precautions in place. As such, we require full COVID-19 vaccination status, including applicable boosters and willingness to remain current on boosters required. Evidence of vaccination will be requested.

To Apply - Application & Cover Letter - Mapping Specialist 

This application requires a cover letter that explains your interest in this position and in working for WCK. Applications without a letter will not be considered. Please submit your cover letter and resume in one combined PDF document in the resume submit section.

Benefits

World Central Kitchen offers competitive compensation and benefits including fully paid medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their dependents. 403B with WCK matching 50% up to 8% employee salary deferrals. Group life and disability insurance is 100% employer sponsored. WCK offers a Responsible/Unlimited Paid Time Off policy.

Policy & Communications Specialist - Alexandria, VA

Policy & Communications Specialist
TESOL International Association

Alexandria, VA

TESOL International Association is seeking a highly motivated and organized individual to provide programmatic support to the Public Policy and Communications Department. The position requires excellent writing skills and the ability to manage multiple demands while working collaboratively with staff. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong skills in workload organization, the ability to be flexible and work creatively as part of a team or individually, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities include:

• Analyzing legislation and conducting research on policy issues impacting English language teaching at both in the US and internationally
• Developing written materials, including policy briefs, issue briefs, policy memos, articles, and advocacy tools and resources?
• Coordinating policy-related activities, including outreach efforts, programming, and TESOL’s annual Advocacy & Policy Summit
• Preparing and disseminating press releases and news-related content on TESOL’s website, news wire service, and social media outlets
• Managing and implementing various aspects of TESOL’s communications strategy, including coordination with other departments, and outreach to news media and other audiences

TESOL International Association offers a prime Alexandria, VA location conveniently located near the King Street metro station, competitive salaries and benefits including medical, dental, and life insurance, 403(b) retirement, and the opportunity to work with a high-performing, dynamic group of colleagues in a friendly environment.

TESOL International Association is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. TESOL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Education, skills, and experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in political science, international communications, or related field
• Three-five years of work experience and demonstrated success in government relations, public policy, communications, or related area that involved policy research
• Work experience in an association or other non-profit organization preferred.
• Exceptional communications skills, including professional writing, editing and verbal skills for a variety of external audiences.
• Excellent research, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Working knowledge of public policy and the issues impacting education
• Knowledge of international education and policy desired
• Strong technical experience, including working with a website content management system, email distribution system, and social media
• Media relations experience, including writing press releases and statements, building media lists, and collecting media mentions desired

Notes:
Additional Salary Information: Salary range in the upper $50,000s, commensurate with experience.

Assistant Professor (Public Management), Department of Public Administration & Policy, School of Public Affairs - American University, Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor (Public Management) Department of Public Administration & Policy School of Public Affairs

American University

The Department of Public Administration & Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 1, 2015. Applicants should have a PhD or an anticipated PhD completion by August 2015 in a field that is relevant to research in public management. Candidates should be effective teachers and must be strongly committed to excellence in scholarly research.

We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality scholarship in public management, specifically those with a focus on organizational behavior, development, and/or theory. Preference will be given to candidates who are able to link their research to one of the school’s three areas of strategic expansion: health policy; national security policy; or urban/metropolitan governance. Teaching responsibilities will include courses in the school’s Master of Public Administration, Master of Public Policy, and executive education degree programs. In addition to scholarship and teaching, responsibilities will include participation in department, school, and university activities.

Salary and benefits are competitive. Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled, subject to ongoing budgetary approval. Please submit applications via: apply.interfolio.com/25622. Include a letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent published papers or working papers.
American University is a private institution within easy reach of many centers of government, business, research, and arts located in the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, visit www .american.edu.

Established in 1934, the School of Public Affairs offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the departments of Government; Justice, Law, & Criminology; and Public Administration & Policy. The Department of Public Administration & Policy offers six graduate degrees, an undergraduate minor, and several graduate certificates. Its programs are consistently ranked among the best in the field of public affairs by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about the School of Public Affairs at www.american.edu/spa and about the Department of Public Administration & Policy at www.american.edu/dpap.

American University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution that operates in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, personal appearance, gender identity and expression, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, veteran status, an individual’s genetic information or any other bases under federal or local laws (collectively “Protected Bases”) in its programs and activities. American University is a tobacco and smoke free campus. 

Assistant Professor (Nonprofit Management), Department of Public Administration & Policy, School of Public Affairs, American University - Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor (Nonprofit Management) Department of Public Administration & Policy School of Public Affairs

American University

The Department of Public Administration & Policy in the School of Public Affairs at American University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 1, 2015. Applicants should have a PhD or an anticipated PhD completion by August 2015 in a field that is relevant to research about nonprofit organizations. Candidates should be effective teachers and must be strongly committed to excellence in scholarly research.

We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality management scholarship about nonprofit organizations, with preference given to candidates who are able to link their research to one of the school’s three areas of strategic expansion: health policy; national security policy; or urban/metropolitan governance. Teaching responsibilities will include courses in the school’s Master of Public Administration, Master of Public Policy, and executive education degree programs. In addition to scholarship and teaching, responsibilities will include participation in department, school, and university activities.

Salary and benefits are competitive. Review of applications will begin on September 15, 2014, and will continue until the position is filled, subject to ongoing budgetary approval. Please submit applications via: apply.interfolio.com/25623. Include a letter of application, curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, recent teaching evaluations (when possible), and copies of recent published papers or working papers.
American University is a private institution within easy reach of many centers of government, business, research, and arts located in the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, visit www .american.edu.

Established in 1934, the School of Public Affairs offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the departments of Government; Justice, Law, & Criminology; and Public Administration & Policy. The Department of Public Administration & Policy offers six graduate degrees, an undergraduate minor, and several graduate certificates. Its programs are consistently ranked among the best in the field of public affairs by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about the School of Public Affairs at www.american.edu/spa and about the Department of Public Administration & Policy at www.american.edu/dpap.

American University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution that operates in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. The university does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, personal appearance, gender identity and expression, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, veteran status, an individual’s genetic information or any other bases under federal or local laws (collectively “Protected Bases”) in its programs and activities. American University is a tobacco and smoke free campus. 

Internship (PAID)- Partnership for Public Service- Washington, DC

To view this email as a web page, go here. Dear Colleague, The Public Service Fellows Program at the Partnership for Public Service is an opportunity for undergraduate students, graduate students and recent graduates to participate directly in transforming the way government works while developing valuable professional skills. At the Partnership, fellows are integral to the day-to-day operations, programs and activities of our organization. We value the contributions of fellows and work to provide relevant and useful experiences in return. Fellows are assigned substantive and meaningful work to support our wide variety of programs, events and projects to help revitalize the federal government by focusing on the people working in it. Fellows’ duties vary across the Partnership’s internal teams, but often include event planning and execution, conducting research, writing and preparing correspondence, and conducting outreach to external partners, such as government agencies and colleges and universities. True to the Partnership’s emphasis on people, the fellows program incorporates opportunities for professional and personal growth through workshops and trainings specifically geared toward students and young professionals. We also strive to ensure a quality experience in terms of work and personal relationships throughout the fellowship term. Fellows also receive the following stipends: Full-time fellows with an undergraduate or graduate degree receive $1000 per month. Full-time fellows who are currently undergraduate students receive $800 per month. Stipends for part-time fellows will be pro-rated accordingly. WHO SHOULD APPLY The Partnership strives to be an inclusive organization that fosters learning, collaboration and respect. We actively recruit for diversity in our workplace, believing that a range of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences contributes to our mission of revitalizing government. We seek extraordinary undergraduate students, graduate students and recent graduates with: A commitment to public service Strong written and oral communication Analytical thinking An ability to work well in teams There is no single academic major or background we prefer over another—if you share our passion and are committed to developing your skills while gaining valuable experience, we want to hear from you! The application for the Fall 2014 term closes on Friday, July 18. Apply today!