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Major Gifts Officer – Texas Public Policy Foundation – Austin, TX

January 17, 2023

Texas public policy foundationThe Texas Public Policy Foundation is seeking a fundraising professional to play a vital role in the organization’s fundraising efforts in the Austin and Central Texas area. The Major Gifts Officer will work in close collaboration with the development team to expand current fundraising efforts, build strong relationships with donors, solicit, and steward donors effectively. The ideal candidate will excel at developing and cultivating relationships with major gift donors. They must be able to communicate TPPF’s mission and share the Foundation’s vision to philanthropists in Texas and across America. This role reports to the Director of Major Gifts and will be based in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, cultivate, and secure major gifts for the Foundation’s work
  • Manage a portfolio of current donors and prospects
  • Play a key support role in cultivating new donors through the Foundation’s outreach efforts, including special donor events
  • Perform donor research, including identifying new major prospects
  • Develop appropriate cultivation strategies (personal visits, correspondence, event participation, etc.)
  • Motivate supporters and prospects in an appropriate and timely fashion toward a shared goal to make Texas an even better place, making solicitations when appropriate
  • Provide a high level of quality stewardship after a gift
  • Ensure that all donor contact is reported in TPPF database
  • Make presentations, when needed, to senior management on donor strategies and efforts 

Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of experience in major gift fundraising with a track record of success
  • Knowledge of free market donors and national/state network a major plus
  • Superb story-telling, writing, oral communication, and debate skills
  • Strong project management skills 
  • Ability to multi-task, set priorities, and follow through
  • Strong commitment to the principles of personal responsibility and free enterprise
  • High attention to detail
  • Personable, self-motivated, and professional 
  • Bachelor’s Degree or above 
  • Integrity in managing sensitive and confidential information
  • Willing to travel when needed; approximately 20% anticipated 

The position’s salary will be commensurate with the experience of the person who takes the position

How to Apply

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

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

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

There is no application deadline for this position. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. This job will remain posted on our site until it is filled. 

Questions can be directed to Katy Gambella, Director of Outreach 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 consulting and recruiting services at no cost to 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations that clearly and directly focus on advancing the principles of economic freedom, free enterprise, free trade, free speech, property rights, rule of law, and limited regulation.

Broadcast Production Coordinator – Ocean State Current, Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity – Virtual Office

January 17, 2023

About the Organization

The Ocean State Current is the Rhode Island’s fastest growing all-digital ‘news and views’ source, and is the media arm of the nonprofit organization, the nonpartisan Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity, the Ocean State’s only free-market think tank.

About the Role

The Ocean State Current is seeking to hire a Broadcast Production Coordinator to manage and enhance the pre, live, and post-production and broadcast of all web-based video and audio content. [Read more…]

State Legal Policy Deputy Director – Pacific Legal Foundation – Arlington, VA or Virtual Office

January 17, 2023

Pacific legal foundationYou: An experienced policy professional committed to the cause of liberty with a track record of finding creative solutions and promoting them in the halls of state legislatures. Your role is to research, develop, and promote policies that protect liberty and individual rights. You are fascinated by the legislative process and are excited by the opportunity to work with policymakers to make our reform proposals a reality.

Them: Regulatory bureaucrats, mayors, governors, legislators, and others in federal and state agencies undermining or denying Americans’ rights every day. And then there are the policymakers that are with us in spirit but don’t know where to turn for meaningful and effective solutions.

Us: We fight back. Pacific Legal Foundation is the nation’s first and most successful public interest law firm dedicated to vindicating individual liberty. PLF has an unmatched record in the United States Supreme Court, with 14 victories out of 16 cases litigated before the Court. We also have more than a hundred active cases across the nation. We leverage that long history of litigation success along with our strategic research into cutting edge policy solutions at every level of government.

We are a next-generation public interest law firm. This means we aren’t interested in doing the same thing as everyone else. We aspire to be the best player in a constantly changing game. [Read more…]

Chief Executive Officer – Thomas Jefferson Institute – Virtual Office in Virginia

January 17, 2023

As the visionary leader of the Thomas Jefferson Institute, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will serve as chief strategist and champion in developing and executing a results-oriented plan to achieve the Institute’s mission, vision, and strategic objectives. The CEO will report to the Board of Directors and be responsible for the successful leadership and management of the organization, including the implementation of its strategic framework, cultivating relationships with investors that expand the financial strength of the organization, and building strategic partnerships with legislators, community leaders, and allied organizations. 

About the Organization

The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is a 501(c)(3) public policy organization that aims to craft and promote public policy solutions that advance prosperity and opportunity for all Virginians. Founded in 1998, it faced a sudden period of transition on the death of its founder in 2019. The current CEO has ably led the organization through these organizational challenges as well as the broader pandemic-related ones of recent years, building the organization to one achieving important policy wins and making great strides in growing its fundraising, name recognition, and leadership. Having placed the organization on steady footing, he has decided to retire and hand the reigns to a leader who will continue to build a prospering, dynamic organization.  

The organization’s revenues reached $500,000 in 2022. The Institute’s robust programs include advocacy for education choice, affordable and reliable energy, workplace freedom, and tax reform. The Institute successfully created and advocated for a tax reform program adopted by Governor Youngkin in 2022, plays a leadership role in the ongoing fight to promote education choice in Virginia, and has been instrumental in providing public school teachers information about a variety of alternatives to established teachers’ unions.

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Housing and Homelessness Research Fellow – Independent Institute – Oakland or Sacramento, CA

January 16, 2023

About the Independent Institute

The Independent Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public-policy research and educational organization that shapes ideas into lasting impact through publications, conferences, and effective multi-media programs. Our mission is boldly to advance peaceful, prosperous, and free societies grounded in a commitment to human worth and dignity. Applying independent thinking to issues that matter, we create transformational ideas for today’s most pressing social and economic challenges.

About the Role

Independent Institute is seeking a full-time Housing and Homelessness Research Fellow to perform original and innovative research. This individual will report to the Director of the Center on Entrepreneurial Innovation (COEI), which houses Independent’s housing and homelessness research program. 

The ideal candidate will have an M.A. or Ph.D. in economics, political science, history, or a related field with 2-4 years of research experience focused on housing, homelessness, and/or urban policy. It’s imperative they understand research publications that involve statistical/econometric analysis and be able to communicate complex issues to the public and media. Working in Oakland or Sacramento, California, is preferred, but superior candidates who want to work remotely will be considered. [Read more…]

Development Manager – R Street Institute – Washington, DC or Virtual

January 16, 2023

About the Role

The R Street Institute—a free-market think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., with regional offices across the country—seeks a collaborative and innovative Development Manager to support the fundraising and development efforts of our policy programs. If you want to contribute to the growth of an energetic organization that takes its work seriously but has fun while doing so, this may be the opportunity for you. 

A typical day at R Street may include meeting with prospective donors to pitch a new policy project, developing and reviewing funding proposals, researching a prospect’s policy priorities and potential for giving, preparing executives for high-level fundraising meetings, or tracking development opportunities in Salesforce. The ideal candidate brings a passion for free market principles, a desire to grow within the organization, and a strong work ethic. They will have at least two years of nonprofit fundraising or grant management experience. This opportunity includes a flexible working arrangement either in-office or virtually, based on the candidates preference.  [Read more…]

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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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