The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) staff are dedicated to academic freedom, academic excellence, and accountability at America’s colleges and universities. We work with alumni, donors, trustees, policymakers, and education leaders across the United States to safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus and ensure for students an intellectually rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price.
The impact of our work is evident in the actions of state legislatures, university boardrooms, classrooms and campuses across the nation. Our staff is enthusiastic, energetic, and collegial, and we model the free exchange of ideas in the way we do our work and in the social events of the office.
The Program Associate for Trustee & Government Affairs advances ACTA’s core values of academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability by assisting the Associate Director of External Affairs in maintaining ACTA’s national network of trustees and elected officials and improving ACTA’s communications with those audiences in coordination with ACTA’s Trustees and Government Affairs Department.
Specifically, the Program Associate performs the following tasks:
• Assisting the Associate Director of External Affairs with communications and outreach to trustees, governors, policymakers, and related constituent groups, including responding to research questions and coordinating with other departmental staff on outreach projects.
• Organizing ACTA’s trustee events and webinar programs, including seeing through selection of participants, event marketing, logistical management, and constituent communications.
• Ensuring quality control of ACTA’s database of college and university trustees, assisting with database administration on an as-needed basis; overseeing database work of interns and outside contractors.
• Managing the department’s direct mail and e-mail campaigns, including serving as the department’s primary point of contact with ACTA’s mail house vendor, facilitating department mass mailings, and responding to resource requests from constituents.
• Drafting correspondence and/or policy statements directed to higher education stakeholders including boards of trustees and government bodies.
• Providing research, logistical, and operational support to departmental initiatives including targeted mailings, trustee publications, events, and ACTA’s board services.
The Program Associate must approach these tasks as an entrepreneurial enterprise, requiring an understanding of and proactive approach to ACTA’s programming activities. The Program Associate is expected to be personable, dynamic, well organized, highly motivated, and principled, and to act with the highest degree of personal responsibility, accountability, and honesty. This role is Washington, DC based, and applicants must be able to reliably commute to the ACTA office. Hybrid arrangements may be considered for exceptional candidates. The salary for this position ranges from $50,000 to $55,000, depending on experience.
To Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to Hanna Hotes at hhotes@goacta.org.
Launched in 1995, we are the only organization that works with alumni, donors, trustees, and education leaders across the United States to support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives an intellectually rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price.
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