AEP External Affairs Coordinator

Organization: Arts Education Partnership

Location: Washington DC

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary: Based on experience

Benefits: ECS offers competitive compensation and benefits, including health, dental, life, long term disability, and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, a health reimbursement account, and a yearly contribution to your 403b retirement plan.

Deadline: August 18th 2016

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Support the work of AEP and ECS leadership in advancing policies and research related to the arts in education, through technical assistance, coalition building, communications, and event support.
2. Provide support for AEP Director for meetings with partners in the DC area on a regular basis, and provide strategic recommendations for ongoing engagement.
3. Lead external affairs engagement for AEP in collaboration with ECS and AEP leadership, by ensuring open lines of communications with AEP partners and stakeholders, identifying new and on-going opportunities for collaboration and engagement, and participating in meetings on behalf of AEP.
4. Draft, contribute to, and edit policy reports, blogs, newsletters, and other communications materials for publication and Web distribution.
5. Support the implementation of strategic planning priorities as directed by the AEP director, including active engagement with partners around the AEP 2020 Action Agenda for Advancing the Arts in Education.
6. Contribute project concept ideas individually and as a member of teams. Assist in linking projects between departments and with other organizations.
7. Assist with meeting planning, including determining meeting objectives, speaker identification, preparation of background materials and synthesis of conference proceedings.
8. Participate in internal and external meetings as needed.
9. Contribute to content development and strategic planning for social media platforms.
10. Perform other ECS duties as required.

To Apply: To be considered for this position, please send a resume, cover letter/e-mail to Matt Padilla/mpadilla@ecs.org. The subject line in your e-mail should read “AEP External Affairs Coordinator.”

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