Jobs and Internships
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Essential Function
Reporting to the board of directors, the CEO will:
- Provide leadership and vision to guide MAP in fulfilling its mission
- Create strategies that ensure MAP’s current and future success
- Manage day-to-day operations including supervision of staff
- Secure and manage resources in alignment with MAP’s priorities
- Represent MAP to the public and to constituents
Responsibilities
Planning
- In collaboration with the board, staff, and outside organizations, lead initiatives to shape MAP’s policy agenda, to define and articulate MAP’s mission and vision, and to develop strategies for achieving them
- Create annual operating plans with measurable goals that correlate with annual operating budgets
- Develop and monitor strategies for ensuring the long-term financial viability
- Develop future leadership within the organization
Management
- Oversee the operations of the organization
- Promote a culture that reflects MAP’s values, encourages good performance, and rewards productivity
- Hire, manage, and fire personnel
- Ensure that staff and board have sufficient and up-to-date information to perform effectively
- Evaluate the organization’s and the staff’s performance on a regular basis
Financial Stewardship
- Oversee staff in developing timely budgets that support annual operating plans
- Manage the organization’s resources within budget guidelines
- Ensure that staff and finance personnel practice accounting procedures in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Provide prompt, thorough, and accurate information to keep the board appropriately informed of MAP’s financial position
Fund Raising
- Develop fund raising strategies with the board, and support the board in fund raising activities
- Oversee staff in the development and implementation of fund raising plans
- Serve as MAP’s primary representative in donor relationships
Community Relationships and Advocacy - Serve as the primary public spokesperson and representative for MAP
- Actively advocate for MAP, its beliefs, and its programmatic efforts
- Act as a liaison between MAP and the community
Programmatic Effectiveness
- Ensure that MAP’s programs and policy statements are consistent with its mission and approved strategies
- Oversee the design, delivery, and quality of program activity
- Collect and analyze evaluation information that measures programmatic success
Board Support and Leadership
- Serve as an ex-officio member of the board of directors and all board committees
- Support operations and administration of the board by advising and informing board members and serving as an interface between board and staff
- Assist in the selection and evaluation of board members and board leadership
Education
An undergraduate degree is required. An advanced degree such as a J.D., M.B.A. or M.P.A. would be highly desirable.
Experience and Skill Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have a track record of the following:
- Proven leadership qualities, including:
- Articulating vision
- High level involvement with organizational change efforts
- Articulating clear performance metrics and expectations and holding staff accountable for results
- Communicating effectively and collaboratively with constituents
- In-depth experience with the issues of First Amendment rights with regard to communications and technology and in working with the institutions that govern those rights
- Public speaking, including working with the press
- A leadership role in advocacy for a social cause
- Experience as senior leader—preferably in a legal or advocacy-based organization
- Working effectively with a board of directors
- Successful fund raising for nonprofit organizations
- Familiarity with budgeting and financial analysis
Compensation
A competitive compensation package will be provided. MAP offers an unusually generous benefits plan and makes efforts to respond flexibly to employees’ personal needs.
To Apply
Please email a cover letter, resume, and salary expectations to mapceosearch@gmail.com.
For more information about the position, contact Oliver Tessier at the email address below.
MAP is an equal opportunity employer.
Contact Person:
Oliver Tessier
Consultant
Oliver Tessier & Associates
email: oliver@otessier.com
No direct calls, please
Staff Attorney
Responsibilities
Legal
- Primary responsibility for MAP’s litigation and rulemaking activities relating to telecommunications, Internet, and spectrum policy.
- Actively participate in the MAP Legal Team, sharing expertise with colleagues, planning, strategizing, and carrying out the legal and administrative work that support’s MAP’s program goals.
- Plan, prepare for, perform and/or support others in performing litigation in assigned policy areas.
- In coordination with the Legal Team, plan and carry out FCC lobbying and other advocacy tasks, as needed.
- Maintain knowledge of current status of all assigned proceedings and of MAP’s interest areas in general.
- Respond to inquiries from clients and other stakeholders regarding communications law and policy.
- Ensure that case files remain complete and up to date.
- Provide routine, evaluative progress reports to the Legal Team.
Communications
- In collaboration with the Legal Team, develop writing projects that further legal scholarship, develop long-term detailed legislative proposals, or provide overviews of the current state of literature.
- Create marketing and development communications content related to assigned policy areas.
- Offer public presentations on media advocacy issues as a representative of MAP’s Legal Team.
Development
- Provide content and support to the development function, as requested.
Desired Skills and Characteristics
Candidates must be able to work unsupervised and must possess superior research and writing skills. Candidates must be proactive in identifying issues that will further MAP’s mission.
Candidates must be able to explain complex, highly technical matters in plain English to policy makers and the press. Because of MAP’s small size, candidates must be willing to handle a variety of cases and assist other MAP attorneys as needed. Candidates must be comfortable with technology. WordPerfect a plus.
Desired Experience
Candidates should have general familiarity with MAP’s issue areas (media regulation, spectrum management, open access/open network architecture) and experience with FCC practice.
Candidates must have a good grasp of new and emerging technologies and their impact on law and policy. Candidates must have a J.D., be a member of the bar in good standing, and have at least 3 years of relevant experience.
Compensation
Salary will be commensurate with experience and qualifications, and competitive with director of operations positions at other Washington-based nonprofit organizations of comparable size. MAP offers a very generous benefits plan and makes efforts to respond flexibly to employees’ personal needs.
To Apply
Please e-mail (or mail): 1) cover letter, 2) resume, and 3) three-year salary history (which will be held in strict confidence) to Parul P. Desai.
MAP is an equal opportunity employer.
Contact Person:
Parul P. Desai
Vice President
Media Access Project
1625 K Street, NW Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20006 202-466-7656 (fax)
email: pdesai@mediaaccess.org
No direct calls, please
Legal Internship
Media Access Project (MAP) generally has openings for 2 full-time interns during the summer, and 1-2 full/part-time interns during the school year.
MAP is a non-profit, public interest law firm that has been practicing telecommunications law for more than thirty years. Its mission is to promote the public’s First Amendment right to hear and be heard via the electronic media of today and tomorrow before the Federal Communications Commission, other policy-making bodies, and the Courts.
Previous interns have worked on the following projects: a petition for writ of certiarori to the Supreme Court; briefs and motions before the Federal courts of appeals, filings with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and helping to prepare MAP staff for Congressional testimony and policy conferences. MAP interns generally have the opportunity to attend meetings with FCC Commissioners and staff, as well as with MAPs clients in the public interest community.
Interns will gain experience in these issues and will develop a wide variety of legal research and writing skills. In previous semesters, MAP’s work has focused on:
- Fighting cable monopolization of broadband access and censorship of the Internet.
- Creating a new low power radio service.
- Ensuring that digital television technology promotes democracy and civic discourse.
- Ensuring broadcast stations afford reasonable access to political candidates.
- Promoting full community, government, and educational access to cable television and direct broadcast satellite outlets.
- Fighting discriminatory deployment of new media.
MAP offers an informal, congenial work atmosphere and strongly encourages women and minorities to apply.
Applicants should be mature, motivated, and dependable individuals who have an interest in telecommunications law and policy issues. A small stipend may be available for the summer position to superior students unable to obtain funding elsewhere, but students should pursue independent sources of financial support. MAP has had significant practice in providing rich internship experiences and considers the mentoring and education of students as part of its core mission.
Interested persons must send a resume and a detailed cover letter describing their interest in MAP to the contact person listed below.
This position is unpaid.
Contact Person:
Parul P. Desai
Vice President
Media Access Project
1625 K Street, NW Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20006 202-466-7656 (fax)
email: pdesai@mediaaccess.org
No direct calls, please
Communications/Development Intern
Media Access Project (MAP), is seeking Communications/Development interns for fall, spring and summer employment.
MAP is looking for responsible and self directed individuals who can devote 15-20 hours per week to research and write overviews of various legal issues for its website and monthly newsletter, research new funding opportunities, and provide general assistance with its yearly annual fundraiser.
The internship offers a great opportunity to gain substantive work experience. The ideal candidate is an undergraduate junior/senior or graduate student with some knowledge of media and telecommunications policy and excellent computer skills. Knowledge of basic html and web design is a plus.
Media Access Project is an equal opportunity employer.
Interested persons must send a resume and a detailed cover letter describing their interest in MAP to the contact person listed below.
This position is unpaid.
Contact Person:
Kamilla Kovacs
Development and Communications Manager
Media Access Project
1625 K Street, NW Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20006
202-466-7656 (fax)
email: kkovacs@mediaaccess.org
No direct calls, please