Assistant Director, ACCESS Leadership & Advocacy

AJC; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, vision, and dental plans

Flexible Spending Account options

Paid Time Off (PTO)

Paid Holidays

403(b) participation

Job summary

American Jewish Committee (AJC) seeks a proactive ACCESS program leader to design and implement advocacy-focused programming that retains current ACCESS members and recruits new prospects. You will help advance AJC's mission across focus areas like combatting antisemitism and defending Israel while expanding ACCESS's organizational presence.

You will collaborate with regional offices, political outreach, institutes, and global affairs teams to create streamlined programming across the United

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; master's preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to work outside standard hours as needed.
• Proficiency with MS Office, Google Workspace, and virtual collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and execution of the department's strategy, goals, objectives, and action plans.
• Manage and facilitate advocacy and outreach programs, projects, initiatives, events, meetings, trainings, and/or missions.
• Implement new opportunities to expand departmental initiatives beyond existing programs.
• May participate and support the work of Boards, committees, task forces, or working groups.
• Leverage resources to help build awareness of and support for the AJC and department initiatives.
• May assist with development efforts, including participation in fundraising initiatives and plans, donor outreach, materials for grant applications and reports.
• Maintain and manage programmatic spending for initiatives they work on.
• Research, monitor, and report on developments, issues, and trends impacting the department and AJC priorities.
• Coordinate, attend, and/or lead meetings.
• Develop relationships with and engage strategic contacts, groups, and organizations.
• Support the building of coalitions, partnerships, and initiatives with organizations and other external partners to further AJC's mission.
• Assist in representing AJC and the department in the community, at functions, and in other public forums.
• Draft, edit, and disseminate communications resources and materials.

Skills

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Google Workspace

Zoom

Job description

American Jewish Committee (AJC) seeks a proactive ACCESS program leader to design and implement advocacy-focused programming that retains current ACCESS members and recruits new prospects. You will help advance AJC's mission across focus areas like combatting antisemitism and defending Israel while expanding ACCESS's organizational presence.

You will collaborate with regional offices, political outreach, institutes, and global affairs teams to create streamlined programming across the United