Now Hiring: Civics Outreach Associate

Are you passionate about the American founding, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence? Are you interested in ensuring the rising generation learns about America’s history, core documents, and shared values? If so, this opportunity may be for you.

About the Jack Miller Center

The Jack Miller Center (JMC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing education in America’s founding principles and history. Through a vast network of scholars and educators, JMC fosters strong undergraduate teaching, serious scholarship, in-depth professional development for K-12 teachers, centers for civic thought on college campuses, and innovative teaching resources.

About the Founding Civics Initiative:

JMC’s Founding Civics Initiative offers high-quality professional development programs and resources for K-12 civics and history educators across the country. This rapidly growing initiative at JMC emphasizes the importance of teaching founding documents to middle and high school students, deepens K-12 teachers’ understanding of the content they teach, and builds a community of educators committed to meaningful civics education for the next generation.

Position overview

The Civics Outreach Associate plays a key role in building the Founding Civics Initiative. We seek a mission-oriented, driven individual who will support the Founding Civics team in facilitating its expansion through a wide array of responsibilities including, but not limited to, the execution of programming; evaluation of program outcomes; entering and managing data for reporting purposes; and communications and marketing regarding the initiative.

Work Location: Bala Cynwyd, PA, a suburb just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is not a remote position.

Salary: $55,000 – $60,000

Reports to: Director of the Founding Civics Initiative 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Assist FCI team with the implementation of professional development programming for teachers, which includes a wide range of activities including grant administration, pre-event communication and logistics coordination, producing materials for events, attending events, post-event reporting, and other related tasks.
2. Assist FCI team in the evaluation of programs through surveys, participant tracking, and ongoing communications with teachers.
3. Draft and edit regular email communications for JMC’s network of teachers and professors as well as relevant publicity materials. 
4. Assist FCI team members with development of JMC educator resources and marketing materials for the initiative.
5. Manage the JMC Salesforce database as it concerns JMC’s K-12 outreach activities, as well as regional teacher contact information databases.
6. Occasionally conduct targeted research on civic education-related issues nationally and in specific regions.
7. Assist in the maintenance and improvement of JMC’s website.

Skills and Requirements

1. Commitment to the mission of the Jack Miller Center
2. Bachelor’s degree
3. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
4. Ability to travel, particularly during the summer (likely no more than 10% of the year)
5. Self-motivated; ability to work independently as well as part of a small team
6. Detail-oriented, strong time-management skills, and ability to prioritize multiple tasks
7. Team player with the ability to successfully engage with colleagues across the organization
8. Ability to interact professionally with professors, donors, and other individuals involved in our efforts
9. Flexibility and adaptability with job requirements and workflow
10. Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
11. Familiarity with Salesforce, Mailchimp, Adobe Acrobat, and/or Adobe InDesign, a plus

Benefits

In addition to a great team of colleagues, the Jack Miller Center offers an excellent benefits package which includes a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, generous paid time off and paid holidays, monthly smart phone reimbursement and group medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.

How to apply

Qualified candidates should email the following application materials in one PDF with his or her name in the file title and “Civics Outreach Associate” in the subject line to Lauren Altobelli at laltobelli@gojmc.org:

Résumé

A cover letter detailing your experience, interest in and passion for JMC’s mission, and your salary requirements

A writing sample of no more than 5 pages

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.