Salary commensurate with experience. Position available immediately. Please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to avoloshin@acus.org.  No phone calls.

Excellent opportunity for an exceptionally organized, sophisticated, computer savvy office administrator with research skills and a deep knowledge of, and interest in, international relations. Journalism experience and/or German language ability a plus.

Summary of Duties

Administrative

• Build and maintain contacts database
• Organize executive travel and schedule
• Organize management lunches, dinners and meetings
• Design and maintain comprehensive filing system
• Set up office system for tracking multiple projects
• Coordinate with External Relations department on Board related administrative tasks
• Draft, edit and proofread correspondence
• Generate cover letters and formal correspondence
• Coordinate CEO's media appearances
• Manage some mass mailings and email campaigns

Research Related

• Regular background research on speakers,  CEO’s, and public figures
• Background research for speeches and articles
• Some historic research for special projects
• Write summaries of research findings
• Condense research materials into digestible written form

Qualifications

• BA or MA in international relations or related field
• Working knowledge of non profit or basic office operations
• Demonstrated research and writing skills
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Superior Internet research skills
• German language skills especially helpful
• Working knowledge and familiarity with budgets and spreadsheets with ability to create as well as interpret them
• Excellent telephone presence
• Willingness to work on emergency basis late evenings or weekends if needed

Salary commensurate with experience. Position available immediately. Please send resume and cover letter with salary requirements to dajubert@acus.org.  No phone calls.

Director, Business and Economics,
Program on Transatlantic Relations
Job Description and Requirements
 

The Atlantic Council of the United States seeks a talented, entrepreneurial thinker and manager to develop its business and economic-oriented projects. A major task will be to launch a new study group of business and economic policy experts that will provide cutting edge analysis of transatlantic economic and business developments.

The successful candidate will have a central role in developing new business and economic policy projects ranging from monitoring and analyzing news events of importance to a transatlantic business audience to launching a business leaders’ speaker series. Issues to be covered will include transatlantic trade and investment, regulatory policy, financial markets and services, competition policy, privacy, intellectual property rights, and other concerns of interest to the business and economic policy communities.

The successful candidate for this position will have excellent managerial and communication skills, a record of initiative and accomplishment, and a proven aptitude for business and regulatory issues. She/he should think creatively about how to strengthen outreach to the corporate and policy communities.

The director for Business and Economics will report to the director of the Transatlantic Relations program and will have the following responsibilities:

• Primary staff support for a high-level transatlantic advisory group: serve as primary liaison with members; identify relevant issues; develop follow-on activities; and organize program for annual meeting.

• Coverage of business and economic issues and related outreach: exercise substantive oversight of website and other products; write short articles/op-eds/policy statements; and develop outreach to other business groups, the policy community, and the public.

• Program development and fundraising: conceptualize and develop new programs that reflect concerns of the transatlantic business and economic policy community; identify and approach potential funders; develop high-impact dissemination strategies for products; manage relations with funders and other partners.

• General management: oversight of events, budget, general administration of program.

Qualifications for the position:

• MBA or a Master’s degree in a relevant field, with 5-6 years work experience preferred

• Extensive experience in program management, preferably in a non-profit or association environment

• Superior writing/communication skills; willingness to experiment in outreach methods

• Demonstrated track-record in fundraising, including from corporate donors

• Experience in the business community; awareness of business priorities

• Superb people skills; must be able to work well with both interns and senior officials

• Serious expertise and interest in transatlantic business and economics

Salary negotiable. Position available immediately. To apply, send resume and cover letter to:

Frances G. Burwell, Director, Transatlantic Relations Program
Atlantic Council of the United States
1101 15th St., NW, Washington DC 20005
email: fburwell@acus.org; fax: 202-463-7241

Internships

For internships with the Atlantic Council, please see the John A. Baker Internship Program.