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Outreach Associate, Health and Reproductive Rights
Date Posted: 2/18/2010
Organization: National Women's Law Center
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: Based on experience
Description of Organization:
Since 1972, the Center has expanded the possibilities for women and girls in this country. The Center uses the law in all its forms: getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families. An experienced staff of more than 50 takes on the issues that cut to the core of women's and girls' lives in education, employment, family economic security, and health -- with special attention given to the needs of low-income women and their families. Women's health is jeopardized by limited access to health care, reproductive rights are under concerted attack, and women's health needs are often overlooked. The Center's Health and Reproductive Rights program is fighting to protect reproductive rights; guarantee accessible, comprehensive health coverage for women and families; and promote policies that advance and protect women's health on the state and federal levels. Current priorities include reducing the number of uninsured women; increasing funding for research and programs that help to prevent and treat health risks for women and their families; protecting a woman's right to decide to have an abortion; expanding access to affordable birth control, including emergency contraception; investing in comprehensive sex education and ending federal funding for abstinence-only programs; educating policy makers and the public about the need to protect and promote women's fundamental reproductive rights; pioneering new legal theories to ensure that health care providers do not refuse to address women's reproductive health needs; highlighting the best public policies for improving women's health; and fighting to protect Medicaid.
Position Responsibilities:
Assisting in the creation of effective and dynamic health and reproductive rights campaigns, including developing and implementing campaign strategies, messaging, and production of related engagement activities and materials.
Supporting state and federal advocacy by coordinating regular communications with current advocates and coalition members, and developing opportunities for recruiting potential advocates.
- With the support of program staff and Outreach Manager, writing and editing action alerts, web content, blog posts, flyers, fact sheets, and other advocacy materials.
- Managing the logistics of advocacy conferences, rallies, meetings, webinars, conference calls, coalition sign-on letters, and related events.
- Managing and updating related health and reproductive rights web content, social media, and databases.
- Supporting NWLC's two yearly Progressive Leadership and Advocacy Network (PLAN) conferences and related activities, including handling the logistics for the two PLAN meetings, organizing regular follow-up, networking activities, and maintaining the PLAN listserv and web content.
- Providing support for the overall Outreach Team.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree. A degree in a related field is preferred (public health, women’s studies, political science, etc).
- At least 2 years of related professional experience.
- A demonstrated ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of constituents about issues, in person, by phone and in writing.
- Internet, social media, and computer savvy. Experience with eCRMs (Convio), HTML, Drupal, and databases (Raiser’s Edge) highly desired.
- A demonstrated understanding of grassroots organizing (online and offline) and progressive politics and political campaigns.
- The ability to work well with competing priorities, meet deadlines, and manage workflow processes involving multiple people.
- Demonstrated experience and judgment working both collaboratively and independently and the ability to make quick decisions.
Apply To:
If you are interested in joining the NWLC team, submit a cover letter describing your qualifications and salary requirements, resume, three supervisory references, and writing samples if requested in the position description. Electronic submissions are preferred. Please include position title in the subject line. Applications accepted until positions are filled.
EMAIL: humanresources@nwlc.org
Human Resources Department
National Women's Law Center
11 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
FAX: 202-588-5185
No calls please.
Equal opportunity employer.
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