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

Development Director – American Institute for Economic Research – Virtual Office

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The American Institute for Economic Research was founded in 1933 as America’s first independent research institution dedicated to sound money, free-market economics, prosperity, and peace. The intellectual and donor legacy at AIER is immense. Its reputational capital is impeccable. It is now in an exciting growth phase, and is poised to be even bigger, with high reach in media and a fast-growing staff in our beautiful Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home. The Development Director can work from a virtual office anywhere in the country or may work from our Great Barrington headquarters. Great Barrington rests in the heart of the Northeastern corridor, just over 2 hours from both New York City and Boston, just over an hour to Hartford, and under an hour to Albany.

AIER is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to help take the organization to its next level of growth. AIER’s long history, excellent reputation and large database of donor prospects offer an extraordinary opportunity for donor cultivation. The ideal candidate for this role will be a solid manager who is self-motivated, organized, and professional.

Currently AIER has no on-staff development director or team. We have outsourced our fundraising letters that have been very successful even though we’ve only embarked on this effort in 2018. There is a limited staff to assist the new development director, but the goal is to build an in-house development team. This really is a new beginning with nothing but upside.

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Development Manager – Mississippi Center for Public Policy – Jackson, MS

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The Mississippi Center for Public Policy (MCPP) has a goal to build a Mississippi where individual liberty, opportunity, and responsibility reign because government is limited.

After 25 years of advancing the cause of liberty, MCPP is entering into a new era of greater leadership in the lives of all Mississippians across the Magnolia State. We are leveraging our past policy accomplishments and accelerating our advocacy so we can take on the enemies of liberty – in whatever form they take. Whenever and wherever entrepreneurs, parents, families and citizens are prevented from reaching for the lives they have imagined, we’ll be on the job aggressively defending those Mississippians – including taking action to protect constitutional rights through the Mississippi Justice Institute.

We are building a team of professional patriots – a talented and hard-working group of folks who want to make a difference for liberty and be part of a fast-moving organization dedicated to getting things done in Mississippi and beyond. If you’ve got skills, initiative and spunk and you believe in free market solutions, we should talk.

About the Opening

MCPP is currently searching for a Development Manager to help assist the organization’s fundraising efforts. This is an excellent position for a junior level person to really launch their career in development.

The Development Manager will work closely with the CEO on the leveraging of technology, database management, prospect research, event coordination, scheduling, grant writing, donor communications and office management. As the CEO’s background includes fundraising, this will be an amazing opportunity for the Development Manager to learn from and be mentored by an expert in the field.

The Manager will also work with the VP for Policy, the Communications Director, and the Executive Director of the Mississippi Justice Institute to develop winning strategies for articulating MCPP’s value to donors.

The Manager is based in Jackson, the capitol city, where MCPP is headquartered. 

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Communications Director/Manager – Empire Center – Albany, NY or Virtual Office in NY

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Nowhere is the fight for prosperity, free-markets, and the ideals of effective and accountable government more important than in New York. With our practical solutions to New York’s most serious problems, a good amount of gumption, and a little bit of elbow grease, the Empire Center for Public Policy is turning the tide of this great state.

To carry on this work, we need a passionate, energetic and personable individual to be our Communications Director/Manager. Does this sound like you? If it does, you’ll be responsible for planning and executing the Center’s communications, marketing and outreach strategy. Working closely with our executive team, you will help us put New York on a better path by maximizing the impact of our work.

This position will be based at Empire Center’s Albany, NY offices, however a virtual office in NY will be considered for select candidates on a case-by-case basis.

Responsibilities:

  • Creating and implementing EC’s short- and long-term communications and marketing strategy
  • Cultivating new and existing media contacts while staying on top of the current media landscape both locally and nationally
  • Strategically managing the publications schedule
  • Securing earned media coverage for EC’s reports, projects and strategic initiatives
  • Booking TV and radio interviews for EC staff
  • Editing and placing op-eds
  • Manage EC’s website, including the NYTorch blog
  • Developing and implementing paid and organic social media marketing campaigns
  • Execute email strategy, including a monthly newsletter, donor communications and press releases, with an eye to growing EC’s audience and email list
  • Editing and assisting in the writing of reports, articles and other materials prepared by other Empire Center researchers and staff
  • Working with outside vendors, including on graphic design, website maintenance and print collateral

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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
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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