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

Senior Development Officer – Young America’s Foundation – Santa Barbara, CA

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MISSION:

Young America’s Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.

JOB SUMMARY:

The senior development officer is a member of the Young America’s Foundation’s

Development Team which includes staff at the Foundation’s National Headquarters in Reston, Virginia, and at the Foundation’s Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. Young America’s Foundation has raised more than $200 million in the last decade, and we expect this senior staffer at the Reagan Ranch Center to add to this momentum. The senior development officer will report to the director of the Reagan Ranch but operates under the Foundation’s overall development team led by the president and the director of development.

The senior development officer will play a key role in identifying, cultivating, and soliciting annual, major, and capital gifts—ensuring Young America’s Foundation reaches our full development potential.

President Ronald Reagan’s 688-acre ranch, Rancho del Cielo, which served as the “Western White House” during his Presidency, is the centerpiece of Young America’s Foundation’s Reagan Ranch operation. The Reagan Ranch Center—the Foundation’s 22,000-square-foot facility in downtown Santa Barbara—compliments our Reagan Ranch efforts. The Center features a conference center, classrooms, a theater, a library of conservative resources, an interactive exhibit gallery, and the Reagan Ranch administrative offices.

The senior development officer reports to the director of the Reagan Ranch.

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Research Director – Empire Center for Public Policy – Albany, NY

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For more than ten years, the Empire Center for Public Policy (EC) has been working to make New York a better place to live and work by promoting public policy reforms grounded in free-market principles, personal responsibility, and the ideals of effective and accountable government.

The Center seeks a research director, to work with leadership to: plan, grow, organize, and manage its research agenda. This is an exciting time to join a growing team working to expand its presence and impact in the state Capitol and throughout the state.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in policy analysis/research or a related field
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher, advanced degree in related field preferred
  • In-depth knowledge of multiple public policy issues
  • Experience managing experienced and inexperienced researchers
  • Familiarity with the New York legislature or another state legislature
  • Excellent interpersonal skill and relationships
  • Proven ability to produce and oversee the production of fact-based work free from hyperbole, sensationalism, and politics

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Litigation Counsel (Mid-Level) – Freedom Foundation – Olympia, WA

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Brief Description

The Freedom Foundation seeks a Litigation Counsel who is licensed in either Oregon or California to work in its Olympia, Washington office.

Organizational & Job Details

Freedom Foundation is an aggressive and effective conservative/libertarian organization devoted to public-sector labor reform. With offices in Washington, Oregon, and California, we work to defeat forced unionism and diminish the undue political influence wielded by Big Labor. We do this by informing workers of their rights and protecting and enhancing those rights in the courts. Success in this fight is a fundamental prerequisite to expanding freedom and prosperity not only in the West, but across the country.

The Litigation Counsel will join an experienced, committed, and hard-working litigation team under the direction of the Foundation’s Chief Litigation Counsel. The subject matter includes First Amendment, open government, administrative, civil rights, and other cases. Because of the Foundation’s overwhelming success in the labor reform field, unions and other entities regularly seek to force the Foundation into defensive litigation. Therefore, the litigation team also provides defense-side litigation support for the Foundation. Though we work collaboratively, the Litigation Counsel must be a self-starter and capable of managing his or her own caseload.

The Litigation Counsel will travel to OR or CA for roughly one week per month for litigation work.


The Litigation Counsel’s job duties will include:

  • Creating, filing, and/or managing legal actions in federal and state courts and administrative agencies against governments, labor unions (primarily public-sector), and their allies who violate workers’ rights;
  • Writing legal opinions, briefs, articles, memos, blog posts, and analysis; driving and managing discovery processes; communicating about the Foundation’s legal activities to trustees, members, donors, the media, and to the general public;
  • Advising Foundation staff as they advance other facets of the Foundation’s mission;

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Program Director, Faith, Work, and Economics – The Kern Family Foundation – Waukesha, WI

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POSITION SUMMARY

The Faith, Work, and Economics Program promotes the idea that productive work within a free economy is critical to human flourishing as it allows the most people to lead meaningful, satisfying, and sustainable lives. The Program Director (PD) identifies, recommends, and actively stewards investments in organizations that help people connect their faith or beliefs system with their work and their understanding of the broader economy. The Program has a unique opportunity to build upon past impact and expand the work into new areas. The PD will play a pivotal role in guiding the program to achieve that impact.

The Program Director plays several important roles and possesses some key characteristics. S/he first serves as an ambassador of the Kern family, representing the ethos of the Kern family both within and outside the Foundation. S/he is a steward of the Kern family’s generosity and legacy. The PD plays the role of servant leader, working closely with the Senior Program Director (SPD), Leadership Team (SLT) and, at times, the Foundation’s benefactors and board to discern donor intent and conceptualize, design, and advance strategies and partnerships that help achieve the Kern family’s mission and vision. The PD also serves as translator and communicator, clearly communicating the Foundation’s mission and inspiring people and organizations to be a part of that mission. S/he is a relationship builder, recognizing that the best results come not from transactional relationships but from partnership. The PD is an evaluator, assessing the alignment of potential partner organizations and, once an investment has been made, evaluating a project’s progress and success. 

The PD is first and foremost a person of strong character, who demonstrates a high level of integrity and accountability. S/he has an entrepreneurial mindset and can recognize new ways to build upon the Foundation’s past work. Together with the SPD, the PD will help nurture and develop the program team, providing direction, management, and an environment that helps team members reach their potential. S/he has the humility to place the family’s mission and vision first. The PD is organized and data-driven, striving to define impact with objective measurements. The PD is team-oriented and network-minded, recognizing that the greatest achievements are often due to the work and input of more than one person or organization. Finally, the PD is passionate about the Foundation’s animating ideas and the opportunities to make significant, systemic change.

The Program Director reports to the Senior Program Director for Faith, Work, and Economics.

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Executive Director, Adam Smith Society – The Manhattan Institute – New York, NY or Washington, DC

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Overview

The Manhattan Institute is looking for an Executive Director for its Adam Smith Society (Smith Soc), a national organization for business schools akin to what the Federalist Society has been for law schools.

In its seven years of operation, the Society has already grown to include 32 chapters on the campuses of top business schools in the US and abroad, 8 professional chapters and over 9,000 members. Our chapters are thriving, with the vast majority recruiting more than 10 percent of the student body as members. We are providing the education that so many business leaders never get: exposure to Adam Smith, Hayek, Friedman, for example, as well as capitalism’s most thoughtful critics. We ask questions. We encourage debate. We network MBA students and professionals who want to think deeply about these topics and equip them to be thoughtful advocates for the free-market system we care so deeply about and that has enabled so much opportunity across the globe. 

Starting immediately, we are looking to talk to truly impressive candidates who share our mission and would be a good fit for the role and on the Manhattan Institute team. The Executive Director’s responsibilities will include daily and long-term management of all aspects of the Society including but not limited to:

  • Management
    • Managing a team of five direct reports across programming, operations, events, and marketing
    • Coordinating and managing relationships with 5 MI teams that provide media relations, editorial, fundraising, operations and marketing leadership for Smith Soc
  • Strategy and Operations
    • Developing the strategy and growth plan for the Society
  • Member Outreach and Relationship Management
    • Actively identifying, equipping, and motivating the Society’s chapter leaders to achieve their goals
    • Cultivating relationships with speakers (CEOs of Fortune 1,000 companies, as well as intellectual/policy leaders on free market issues, and journalists) to maintain and grow the Society’s speakers’ bureau of business and thought leaders
    • Extensive travel to develop relationships with members and manage high-level national events
    • Working closely with marketing team and development team on paid membership program and overall strategy for membership communications
  • Programming
    • Overseeing programming across all student chapters. Managing a program office responsible for 200+ events per year
    • Developing nascent programming for a professional network of regional chapters for business school alumni and professionals
    • Developing and organizing an annual National Meeting attracting more than 300 members from schools and cities across the country
    • Conceptualizing and curating one-of-a-kind experiences for members

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President – Foundation for Economic Education – Atlanta, GA

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The trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education (“FEE”) are seeking a President to succeed Lawrence W. Reed.  The search is being undertaken at the request of Mr. Reed, who will become President Emeritus upon the appointment of the successful candidate.  The target date for the transition is late 2018/early 2019. 

In Mr. Reed’s ten-year tenure—the longest since that of FEE’s founder Leonard E. Read—FEE has experienced dramatic growth and has become one of the most dynamic and productive organizations in the free-market non-profit community. 

Since our founding in 1946, FEE has devoted its efforts exclusively to the dissemination of the principles of classical liberalism.   Since 2008, we have focused in particular on being the entry point for young people into the freedom philosophy and into the larger freedom-loving community.  FEE’s ambition is to be the global leader in making the principles of a free society familiar, credible, and compelling to the rising generation.

To that end, FEE has gathered a team of professionals with expertise in the core disciplines of education, editorial, publishing, media, technology, and marketing.  They are supported by experienced development, finance, and management teams, who have enabled us to triple our revenues and manage the commensurate growth in staff and activity levels over the past ten years.

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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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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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