Talent Market

Talent Market is a nonprofit whose mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector

Director of Donor Relations – Jack Miller Center – Philadelphia, PA

Are you passionate about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Founding Fathers?  Are you interested in transforming today’s colleges and universities… ensuring that the next generation of students understands America’s founding principles? Are you a skilled fundraiser looking to make in immediate impact on higher education?  If so, this opportunity may be for you.

About the Jack Miller Center

The Jack Miller Center (JMC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting professors and programs on college campuses that teach America’s founding principles, history, and documents.  We currently have over 900 professors in our network who teach on over 300 college campuses.  Each year, over 125,000 students take classes with our partner faculty.

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Communications Associate – The Fund for American Studies – Washington, DC

About TFAS
The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) is an educational nonprofit that is changing the world by developing leaders for a free society. Our transformational programs teach the principles of limited government, free-market economics and honorable leadership to students and young professionals in America and around the world.

By offering a portfolio of more than 20 different academic programs, fellowships and seminars, the TFAS Journey helps cultivate future leaders from high school, all the way through to their university studies and professional careers.

Today, there are more than 42,000 TFAS alumni making the difference in their communities and throughout the world by upholding the values essential to the preservation and success of a free society.

Position Overview

TFAS is searching for a self-starting, creative thinker to join its communications team in Washington, D.C. Our ideal candidate enjoys collaborating with a small team, listens intently to information and task direction, follows projects through to completion, takes personal pride in and ownership of their work, is excited and motivated to learn new skills, is resourceful and takes initiative to meet objectives. The full-time position will report to the Communications Manager and Director of Communications.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Attend TFAS programs and events such as guest lectures, site briefings, dinners and awards receptions to live-post social content and gather content for future communications
  • Write compelling content for print and online newsletters, highlighting the stories of TFAS programs, events, students, alumni and supporters
  • Format and publish content to TFAS.org website, following internal guidelines and digital best practices
  • Assist the communications manager and director with executing digital marketing strategy through social media, email and targeted online advertising
  • Aggregate an internal daily report of media mentions about and pertaining to TFAS, and maintain an internal archive of relevant media mentions
  • Maintain audio, video, press and photography archives
  • Manage TFAS audio/visual equipment, including the organization and check-out procedures for equipment, as well as the training for staff on equipment usage
  • Support communications strategies and production of related marketing materials as needed

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors Degree and 0-2 years of professional experience (internships may be considered experience)
  • A compelling storyteller with excellent writing and presentation skills that can be tailored to various audiences
  • Ability to research story topics and track down sources
  • Understanding of social and web analytics reporting
  • Familiarity with AP Style
  • Willingness to work with a team as well as independently
  • Strong grasp of branding and following style guides
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects while effectively managing timelines and expectations
  • Willingness to learn new technologies
  • Openness to explore other areas within the communications department to grow in the field and as a TFAS employee
  • Candidates must have a commitment to ideas of limited government and free-market economy

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign and Photoshop
  • Experience with WordPress or other content management systems
  • Familiarity or experience with HTML and CSS
  • Experience with MailChimp or other email marketing services
  • Video production and editing experience in Premier Pro

How to Apply:

Qualified candidates should submit the following in one PDF file with your name in the file:

  • Resume
  • Cover Letter detailing your interest in the position/the mission of TFAS and your salary requirements

Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link: https://www.talentmarket.org/apply-for-your-dream-job/   

Questions can be directed to Katy Gambella, Network Engagement Manager of Talent Market, who is assisting with the search: [email protected].

While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.

Talent Market is a nonprofit entity dedicated to promoting liberty by helping free-market nonprofits identify talent for critical roles. We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity-building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise.

Comptroller – Leadership Institute – Arlington, VA

ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE:

The Leadership Institute is a 501(c)3 organization that was founded in 1979 by its president, Morton C. Blackwell. LI provides training in campaigns, fundraising, grassroots organizing, youth politics, and communications. The Institute teaches conservatives of all ages how to succeed in politics, government, and the media.

The Institute offers 48 types of training schools, workshops, and seminars; a free employment placement service; and a national field program that trains conservative students to organize campus groups.

Since 1979, LI has trained more than 210,989 conservative activists, leaders, and students. The Institute’s unique college campus network has grown to more than 2,110 conservative campus groups and newspapers.

ABOUT THE OPENING:

The Comptroller reports directly to the Vice President for Finance and is a member of the finance department of the Leadership Institute (LI).

This position will be responsible for computing, classifying, recording, and verifying numerical data for use in maintaining accounting records by performing general bookkeeping duties.

This individual will work closely with the VP of Finance to implement finance and accounting improvements, and to explore how the financial staff can better support LI’s mission. This role is a full-time position at LI’s headquarters in Arlington, VA.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Oversees accounts payable and investigates problems that vendors or purchasing agents have with obtaining payment for bills
  • Prepares vouchers, invoices, checks, account statements, reports, and other records, and reviews for accuracy
  • Reconciles bank statements, report discrepancies, and problems
  • Reviews, investigates, and corrects errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, documents, and reports
  • Reviews, balances, and interprets computer reports, and makes corrections
  • Assists in managing the payroll and corporate credit cards
  • Oversees daily caging process
  • Assists employees, vendors, clients, or customers by answering questions related to accounts, procedures, and services
  • Protects assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal controls
  • Monitors and confirms financial condition by conducting periodic internal audits; providing information to VP of Finance
  • Assists in the annual budget process by establishing appropriate timelines/schedules; collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data from departments
  • Works with the VP of Finance in the recommending of budget allocations to accomplish organizational goals
  • Periodic preparation of special reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Degree in Accounting or Finance or two (2) years experience in financial and/or accounting operations
  • Effective communication skills and a strong commitment to developing team members
  • Philosophical alignment with and passion for LI’s mission
  • Strong quantitative, analytical skills and a comprehensive understanding of finance and cash management
  • Ability to be highly confidential around internal financial information and plans in order to protect the organization
  • Willingness to maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending appropriate educational workshops; reviewing professional publications and websites
  • Establish/maintain professional networks; participate in professional societies

DESIRED SKILLS:

  • Experience with 501(c)3 organizations
  • Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)
  • Raiser’s Edge

HOW TO APPLY:

All applicants must have an up-to-date and complete jobseeker profile on www.conservativejobs.com to be considered for an interview.

After completing/updating your jobseeker profile on conservativejobs.com, qualified candidates should submit the following application materials in one PDF document:

    • Resume
    • Cover Letter detailing:
      • Your interest in the position/the mission of LI
      • Your salary requirements
      • Confirmation that you have completed/updated your jobseeker profile 

Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link: 

https://talentmarket.org/candidates/apply-for-your-dream-job/. 

Questions can be directed to Katy Gambella, Network Engagement Manager at Talent Market, who is assisting with the search: [email protected]

While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.

Talent Market is a nonprofit entity dedicated to promoting liberty by helping free-market nonprofits identify talent for critical roles. We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity-building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise.

Director of Human Resources – Federalist Society – Washington, DC

About The Federalist Society

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.  It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.  The Society seeks both to promote an awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.

About the Opening

As a new position within the Federalist Society, the Director will be the first dedicated human resources professional to serve their 40+ employees.  The Director will help drive the identification, evaluation, and selection of talent for open positions as well as oversee all orientation, training, performance evaluations, and payroll.

Responsibilities

Hiring, Onboarding, and Performance Reviews

  • Working with supervisors to assess their talent needs; helping craft job descriptions and publicize job openings
  • Helping with the Federalist Society’s intern selection process
  • Overseeing annual review process
  • Working with management to handle sensitive HR issues, ensuring that the organization follows all legal requirements and professional expectations
  • Overseeing the onboarding process; providing new employees with the Federalist Society policies and procedures manual; answering relevant questions
  • Developing and implementing new employee orientation processes, in coordination with management and supervisors
  • Overseeing and performing basic staff training

Payroll and Logistics

  • Overseeing payroll; ensuring new employees are added and departing employees are removed in a timely manner
  • Updating metro, health, and retirement benefits
  • Processing W-4s
  • Ordering office furniture and other key items for the organization as needed
  • Helping with the logistics of acquiring and organizing additional office space
  • Assisting with the execution of the organization’s record retention policy
  • Tracking employees’ days off
  • Managing outside vendors as needed

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in human resources
  • A willingness to learn/embrace the Federalist Society‘s culture and ensure cultural consistency in all HR functions
  • Ability to quickly gain understanding of the relevant rules and regulations with which the Society is required to comply; familiarity with laws and policies regarding interviewing, hiring, and HR issues
  • Customer service mindset
  • Discretion; demonstrated ability to professionally handle sensitive/confidential information
  • Understanding of and alignment with The Federalist Society’s mission

How to Apply

Qualified candidates should submit the following application materials in one PDF document:

  • Resume
  • Cover Letter detailing your interest in the position/the mission of The Federalist Society and your salary requirements

Applications should be submitted to Talent Market via this link:

https://talentmarket.org/candidates/apply-for-your-dream-job/

Questions can be directed to Lauren Skiver, Talent Manager at Talent Market,  who is assisting with the search: [email protected]

While we thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position, we are only able to contact those to whom we can offer an interview. Only direct applications will be considered. No phone calls, please.

Talent Market is a nonprofit entity dedicated to promoting liberty by helping free market nonprofits identify talent for critical roles. We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity-building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise.

Associate Director – Alaska Policy Forum – Anchorage, AK

About Alaska Policy Form

The mission of the Alaska Policy Forum is to empower and educate Alaskans and policymakers by promoting policies that grow freedom for all. Alaska Policy Forum’s vision is an Alaska that continuously grows prosperity by maximizing individual opportunities and freedom.

Alaska Policy Forum works with policymakers in the legislature and the executive branch to provide them with the data and information they need to bring about policy reforms which promote individual and economic opportunity and freedom. In 2018, APF published six studies, seven op-eds, and was in the media over 50 times.

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Donor Relations Coordinator – Students For Liberty – Virtual

About SFL

Students For Liberty is a rapidly growing network of pro-liberty students from all over the world. Our mission is to educate, develop, and empower the next generation of leaders of liberty. We are the largest pro-liberty student organization in the world. We accomplish this through a strategy of empowerment, identifying the top student leaders and training them to be agents of change in their communities. What began as a small meeting of young leaders has become an international movement of students with thousands of local student groups and thousands of leaders around the world with operations on every inhabited continent.

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About Us

Claire Kittle Dixon

Claire Kittle Dixon
Executive Director
Claire has more than a decade of experience in the talent development field. She…
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Lauren Skiver

Lauren Skiver
Talent Manager
Lauren comes to us from our parent nonprofit, DonorsTrust, where she was the Outreach…
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Katy (Ranville) Gambella
Network Engagement Manager
Katy began her career at the Institute for Humane Studies and later joined the Cato Institute…
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Wait, You’re a Nonprofit?

Talent Market is a nonprofit. We’ll wait here while that sinks in. We know it’s a crazy concept, but it’s been working like a charm since 2009.

Talent Market’s mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector.

We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise. (We do not work in politics, nor do we work with organizations that address social issues.) Talent Market believes that the road to prosperity is paved with freedom and that the success of our movement hinges on the talent that will take us there.

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