[YEP-DC] National Indian Education Association Seeks Director, Policy and Community Outreach

 

Director, Policy and Community Outreach, National Indian Education Association
The National Indian Education Association (NIEA), the leading advocate for advancing excellent education for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students, is seeking the next successful candidate to be Director, Policy and Community Outreach. This position will be responsible for managing an NIEA grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and ensuring the goals of the grant are being met. The primary role is to advance NIEA's Native education policy agenda at the federal and local level. The position reports directly to the Executive Director.

 

Essential Functions

The essential functions of this position, include, but are not limited to the following:

•  Implement NIEA's legislative agenda through meetings and briefings with the Administration, Congress, national partners, and state/local leaders.
• Develop briefing papers, talking points, comments, testimony, and other materials to support, clarify, and advance NIEA's policy agenda.  
• Serve as the lead liaison for NIEA on the Campaign on High School Equity, representing the Native voice on a coalition focused on improving minority student outcomes.
• Building and strengthening partnerships with other civil rights, school reform, and education policy organizations to achieve Gates Foundation and  Campaign for High School Equity (which are critical to achieving NIEA's mission).
• Attend policy related meetings, conferences, workshops, forums and other presentations to advance NIEA's policy agenda and build partnerships.
• Maintain strong connections with non-CHSE partners (NEA, NSBA, CCSSO, Native Hawaiian Education Council, Native Hawaiian Education Association, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians [Education Committee], California Indian Education Association, New Mexico and Washington State Indian Education Associations, other state Indian education associations, USET) and and initiate and represent NIEA in joint projects.
• Identify, foster, and develop relationships with national and local partners to create strategic partnerships that align federal initiatives with local practitioners and community leaders.
• Advising on NIEA's legislative committee on policy positions, especially in relation to pending congressional legislation.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-to-7 years of experience in education policy, public policy, government relations, or research desired.
• Experience in shaping legislation and policy on Capitol Hill, or at the state level.
• Experience managing projects on time and within budget.
• Experience building coalitions within the civil rights, school reform, and education policy communities.
• Knowledge and ability to use technology to build and maintain data bases.
• Knowledge of and commitment to national education issues, particularly related to high school education and minority/native youth.
• Familiarity and experience working and effectively communicating with Native communities.   An interest in and an understanding of education issues relating to Native Americans.
• Experience in formulating policy and communicating those policies to varied audiences.
• Excellent research skills, including the ability to review qualitative and quantitative research, assess and apply research on high school equity and education, create connections between research and policy and to monitor and analyze legislative activity and news.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• BA required; Master of Arts in Education or Public Policy preferred.
• Up to 25% travel

 

Contact Information

NIEA will be accepting resumes from qualified applicants. Please send the following items to ndewire@niea.org  or fax to 202-544-7293 attn:  Nancy Dewire

Address: 110 Maryland Avenue, NE, Suite 104 ● Washington, DC 20002

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Learn more at www.NIEA.org

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