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About the Role
The ACLU seeks applicants for the full-time position of Senior Project Manager in the National Political Advocacy Department. This role advances key departmental projects and initiatives, ensuring all projects meet scope, budget, and timeline. The department builds power to achieve an accountable, representative democracy through ambitious goals across various issue areas.
Responsibilities
- Lead large and complex internal projects to advance key departmental projects and initiatives, ensuring all projects meet scope, budget, and timeline.
- Design and implement methods for tracking deliverables, schedules, and metrics for various projects.
- Manages systems for communication and collaboration so teams have the most up-to-date information and are connected to departmental goals.
- Develop, edit and collaborate across various communication mediums such as memos, newsletters, and presentation decks for internal and external audiences.
- Prepare, proofread, and edit documents/materials, including but not limited to internal communications, meeting agenda and notes, weekly reports, and dashboards.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Senior Director of National Campaigns, and conduct research and prepare talking points for internal and external audiences, as needed.
- Draft correspondence and other materials as requested; respond to written and verbal inquiries, as directed.
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders from other national departments and affiliate staff to advance the goals of NPAD.
- Process and track budget-related matters, including procurement process and invoices.
- Maintain big-picture awareness of emerging opportunities, challenges, and trends across all issue areas.
- Maintain awareness of the work to facilitate representation of the Department internally and externally.
- Exercise significant independent judgment to solve problems and determine creative solutions.
- Demonstrate an ability to be flexible and adjust priorities as necessary in order to adapt to changing external environment.
- Engage in special projects and other duties as assigned.
- Requires flexibility in work schedule, including the ability to work nontraditional hours.
Requirements
- Significant experience with project management and/or internal communications.
- Strong understanding of advocacy campaign operations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a strong understanding of grammar, spelling punctuation, and sentence structure to ensure proper and efficient writing.
- Excellent research and analytical skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously handle many tasks; work efficiently, meeting multiple deadlines, while remaining composed under pressure.
- Strategic and creative thinker with a proactive, positive approach to work.
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to exercise a high level of judgment, discretion, confidentiality, and professional integrity.
- Ability to develop compelling content through various mediums, including PowerPoint.
- Willingness to travel.
Skills
- Project management
- Internal communications
- Advocacy campaign operations
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Sentence structure
- Research
- Analytical skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strategic thinking
- Creative thinking
- Organization
- Attention to detail
- Judgment
- Discretion
- Confidentiality
- Professional integrity
- Content development
- PowerPoint
- Graphic design (a plus)
- Advocacy on issue campaigns (a plus)
- Advocacy on electoral campaigns (a plus)
- Legislative advocacy (a plus)
- Administrative advocacy (a plus)
- Grassroots organizing (a plus)
- Fluency in multiple ACLU issue areas (a plus)
Location
- Washington, DC
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $128,294 (Level G)
Benefits
- Generous paid time-off policy
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits (including medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, gender affirming care & fertility treatment)
- 401k plan and employer match
- Annual professional development funds
- Internal professional development programs and workshops
About the Company
- For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
- The ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
- We know that great people make a great organization.
- We value our people and know that what we offer is essential not just their work, but to their overall well-being.
Equal Opportunity
- Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all.
- We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability.
- We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible.
- We are as committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally.
- We strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.
- The Department of Education has determined that employment in this position at the ACLU does not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.