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

Managing Editor – Leadership Institute, Campus Reform – Arlington, VA

Leadership InstituteAbout 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. Since 1979, LI has trained more than 200,000 conservative activists, leaders, and students. The Institute’s unique college campus network has grown to more than 1,700 conservative campus groups and newspapers.

About the Role

The Leadership Institute is hiring a Managing Editor for its campus news website Campus Reform.org. As America’s leading source for conservative college news, Campus Reform serves as a watchdog to our country’s higher education system, with a mission to expose liberal bias and abuse on college campuses.

As managing editor, you will oversee a team of professional journalists and a network of roughly 200 conservative student journalists with a passion for reforming American higher education by reporting on the conduct and misconduct of administrators, faculty, and students. The ideal candidate will have at least three years of professional journalism experience. Strong writing and editing skills will be imperative. This is a full-time in-office position located in Arlington, VA.
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Events Assistant – The Philanthropy Roundtable – Washington, DC

About the Philanthropy Roundtable

The Philanthropy Roundtable is a well-established organization in the philanthropic sector, serving as a resource for hundreds of donors and foundation leaders. Its vision is to build and sustain a vibrant American philanthropic movement that strengthens our free society. To achieve this vision, the organization pursues a mission to foster excellence in philanthropy, protect philanthropic freedom and help donors’ advance liberty, opportunity and personal responsibility.

Since 1991, the Philanthropy Roundtable has served individual philanthropists and foundations that are refining their philanthropic strategies to maximize the impact of their resources, as well as emerging donors and entrepreneurs who are developing their philanthropic plans. The Roundtable is the leading organization in the United States focused on promoting and defending the power of private giving and the means to create wealth to make charitable giving possible. [Read more…]

Director/Vice President of Development – Federalist Society – Washington, DC

About the Director/Vice President of Development Opening: The Federalist Society

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies seeks a Director or Vice President of Development to lead our development team. This position, in partnership with the President and CEO, is responsible for building a donor engagement strategy and overseeing a variety of efforts to reach fundraising goals. A strong candidate will be deeply dedicated to the mission of FedSoc with a strong vision for how to expand the development operations and capacities of the organization. Top candidates will have a track record for leading a team to meet and exceed fundraising goals and will encourage a healthy development culture both within the development team and across the organization. [Read more…]

Human Resources Manager – Leadership Institute – Arlington, VA

About Leadership Institute Leadership Institute
The Leadership Institute is a 501(c)3 nonprofit 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. Since its founding, LI has trained more than 200,000 conservative activists, leaders, and students.

About the Opening
LI seeks a friendly, detailed-oriented, and organized individual with the highest levels of personal integrity and exceptional judgment to serve as our Human Resources Manager. The HR Manager supports the organization and its staff in a variety of human resource functions. 

The person we are looking for is a servant leader, a team player, and a “doer”, who is motivated by the Institute’s mission to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative leaders.  [Read more…]

Communications Manager – Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom – St. Paul, MN or Virtual Office

Citizens' Council for Health FreedomAbout the Organization 

The Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) is a non-partisan, free-market organization that promotes policy ideas consistent with the principles of limited government, individual liberty, and free markets. Recognized as the leading free-market voice for patient-centered care and medical privacy rights, CCHF’s primary area of focus is health care policy, with an emphasis on freedom, free-markets, and the medical privacy rights that protect patient and doctor freedom.

About the Role

CCHF seeks a Communications Manager to plan and execute their communications, marketing, and outreach strategy and activities. Writing and editing skills are essential to this position and a minimum of three years of communications or policy writing is preferred. Those with less experience are still encouraged to apply. This person will work closely with the organization’s President and the State Legislative and Policy Manager to maximize the publicity and earned media of each project and initiative. 

Qualified candidates must have a passionate commitment to free-market principles and have the skills and experience required to generate maximum media coverage for CCHF and its projects, as well as the ability to take talking points and formulate a concise and marketable press release. The Communications Manager will also be expected to spearhead CCHF’s marketing-centered campaigns. This is a full-time role located in St. Paul, Minnesota. A virtual office option will be considered for exceptional candidates.  [Read more…]

Member Outreach Coordinator – NFIB Small Business Legal Center – Washington, DC or Virtual Office

About the SBLC
The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) is the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member-driven. Since our founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses, and remains so today.

The NFIB Small Business Legal Center (SBLC) is the voice for small business in the nation’s courts and the legal resource for small business owners nationwide. 

In the courts, we educate judges on how the decision they make in a given case will impact small businesses nationwide. In addition to our litigation work, we produce and disseminate educational guidance documents that cover laws important to small businesses nationwide.

About the role
Member Outreach Coordinator who plays an important role in growing the organization by building and sustaining long-term relationships with current and prospective small business owners.  The Member Outreach Coordinator will serve as the primary point of contact for NFIB members, non-members, and NFIB staff, fielding questions and requests for information and conducting follow-up activities as needed. 

The Member Outreach Coordinator must possess excellent English verbal and written skills, be conversant in Spanish, and have a strong customer-focused mindset and demonstrated level of responsiveness. [Read more…]

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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Katelynn Barbosa
Director of Talent Engagement
Katelynn started her career in the Koch Associate Program and then litigated at the Institute for Justice…
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Katy Gambella
Director of Network Engagement
Katy began her career at the Institute for Humane Studies and later joined the Cato Institute…
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Stephanie Keaveney
Network Engagement Manager
Stephanie’s career started at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal…
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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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