National Office Employment Opportunities

National Campaign Manager

Department: National Campaign
Location: Washington, DC
Posting: 10/07

Public Education Network (PEN) is a national nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to improve public schools and build citizen support for quality public education in low-income communities across the nation. PEN seeks a dynamic, articulate and motivated Manager to work 25 hours/week to manage Give Kids Good Schools, a national campaign to build an informed and motivated public that will work to ensure that all America’s children receive a quality public education. The Manager works with all of PEN’s divisions and reports to the Senior Vice President.

The Manager has primary responsibility for daily activities of PEN’s five-year national public engagement campaign. Under the supervision of the Senior Vice President, the Manager will exercise professional judgment to:

• Cultivate and coordinate relationships with campaign partner organizations.

• Develop close working relations with PEN members (LEFs) and other grassroots organizations participating in the campaign and provide support as they need it.

• Provide internal clearinghouse function among the PEN staff, partners and consultants in developing, delivering and retrieving information and materials needed to implement the campaign

• Prepare informational materials for the campaign.

• Plan and manage campaign events.

• Work with our webmaster to keep the campaign website www.givekidsgoodschools.org current.

• Manage the campaign website e-mail traffic.

• Produce and distribute weekly campaign updates for LEFs; biweekly e-alerts for GKGS constituents, and monthly updates for partners.

• Work closely with Development to support campaign funding initiatives.

• Track campaign expenses and provide monthly report to Senior Vice President.

• Assist Senior Vice President on other campaign duties as assigned.

• Occasional Travel Required.

Background, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in liberal arts, communications, marketing or education.

• Minimum of five years of progressively more responsible experience in nonprofit communications/public relations, marketing, or program areas.

• Social marketing and/or public education campaign experience strongly recommended.

• Experience working with state and local stakeholders and national organization partners.

• Excellent understanding of technology and working knowledge of web marketing.

• Experience in report and proposal writing and making presentations to external audiences.

• Experience in grassroots organizing and/or constituency-building an asset.

• Knowledge of and interest in public education a plus.

Skills

• Superb written and verbal communications ability.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently and in teams.

• Ability to work within tight timeframes.

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