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
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 a Communications/Development intern for spring 2010 employment to aid with press and online outreach, and assist with fundraising operations and organizational marketing. MAP is a non-profit advocacy organization that promotes freedom of expression, independent media, and low-cost, universal access to communications services.
The ideal candidate is a responsible and self directed individual who can devote 15-20 hours per week to the following tasks:
- Developing and implementing new methods of outreach and marketing.
- Drafting organizational newsletter.
- Helping to plan and implement events, including policy forum series and annual fundraiser.
- Maintaining frequent and timely website and social networking updates.
- Managing outreach and development contacts.
- Researching new press contacts covering various communications policy issues.
- Assisting with press statements and releases.
- Assisting with online outreach.
Required skills:
- Effective organizational, writing, and communication skills.
- Ability to multitask in a fast paced environment.
- A meticulous, self-driven, friendly nature.
- Fluency with computers and the Internet, including word processing, calendars, spreadsheets, email, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, others), online collaboration, and web research.
This internship offers a great opportunity to work with a small and dynamic staff to gain experience in communications, marketing, and fundraising, as well as exposure to prominent reporters and foundation representatives. The candidate will have the opportunity to witness the Washington policymaking process. The intern will help to organize and attend meetings and events with key lawmakers, policy advocates, reporters, foundations, and the general public.
Media Access Project is an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, women, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
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