About Us

Hope Street Group, a nonpartisan nonprofit, is working to build a true Opportunity Economy, where everyone has the chance to realize the American Dream and our nation prospers as a result.  We are bringing a new generation of leaders across business, government and civil society into the policy arena in an effort to generate and implement innovative ideas that will tackle pressing national problems. 

Our Economic Opportunity Index illustrates that education and health care are the driving factors of Opportunity Economics.  Over the last 3 years, Hope Street Group has convened some of the nation’s most influential leaders, through our Bi-partisan Working Groups and Annual Colloquia, to build consensus around reasonable solutions and drive change.  These leaders remain committed to our mission and continue to help us expand our coalition for reform.  Within education and health care we are focusing our priorities on key levers: reinventing teacher effectiveness and primary care.

Our model of policy development connects reform minded practitioners to collaborate on solutions and implement them in partnership with our leadership network. We call this approach Policy 2.0 and believe it produces better outcomes using open innovation and a shared sense of ownership. Our online social media platform (beta at www.hopestreetgroup.org) enables us to scale our model and include contributors from across the country in the policy dialogue. It is essential to our success that we expand our mobilization efforts by building an active national network of contributors and strategic partner organizations to realize the full impact of Policy 2.0.   We are a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial organization, and are looking for an exceptional person to drive our next phase of development.


Position Summary

The Chief Organizing Officer (COO) is an integral part of our senior management team and architect of the mobilization strategy. The COO is responsible for developing and executing effective advocacy campaigns to achieve organizational goals. The COO is a dynamic leader who is politically aware, entrepreneurial, and has a proven track record in organizing, communications and management. This role provides an opportunity for the right candidate to engage with a broad network of leaders, be at the vanguard of open innovation and become an active player in ongoing national and local policy debates. 

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop and drive the organization’s mobilization strategy;
• Grow and manage the online community to meet strategic goals;
• Recruit, develop and manage leaders within the community that the Policy 2.0 model heavily relies on;
• Lead communications development and media outreach;
• Develop uniquely rounded online community managers on staff, by expanding the teams technical, community management, and marketing skills, and public policy knowledge across our principal policy areas;
• Design a contributor engagement model, training and processes to support the Policy 2.0 model;
• Serve as the main point person for online and offline contributors;
• Manage and lead operational tasks with the Hope Street Group staff,
• Work with development staff to ensure success of community events, online fundraising, and other operational activities;
• Work closely with the Executive Director, senior management staff and advisors to create and execute opportunities for the contributor community to collaborate with decision-makers to drive implementation of policies which promote economic opportunity.

Qualifications

Ideal candidate will have:

• BA in related field, MPP, or MPA preferred;
• Extensive strategic and tactical experience (7+ years) in organizing national political or advocacy campaigns;
• Extensive experience in project management, strategy vision and implementation;
• Familiarity with domestic economic policy;
• Fluency in web culture (organizations, operations, and tools), including Web 2.0 technology, web design, multi-media software, e-marketing and e-communications, blogging, webcasting, digital video, etc.;
• Excellent organizational and public speaking skills, high attention to detail, and the ability to manage many tasks simultaneously;
• Collaborative team player, great listener and ability to work with diverse groups of people;
• Creativity, flexibility, tenacity, sense of humor, and high level of energy;
• Passion for increasing opportunity and prosperity for all Americans;
• Superior editing and writing skills with an emphasis on web communications;
• Located in the DC metropolitan area and willingness to travel regularly.

Success Metrics

Ideal candidate will be able to:

• Develop and disseminate strategy within the organization;
• Build, sustain and engage an active user-base for Policy 2.0;
• Deliver policy goals (by area);
• Grow and engage contributors in a greater number and variety of projects supporting the Hope Street Group mission;
• Establish expertise in community management;
• Expand Hope Street Group’s skills and capabilities to support our transition from a start-up to a mature public policy think tank;
• Build dynamic and effective relationships with the Executive Director and Hope Street Group’s Board of Directors.

Work Environment

Hope Street Group is a virtual organization. We conduct staff and contributor business from locations across the United States and expect applicants to maintain their own workspaces and report to regular staff conference calls.

Hope Street Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, citizenship status, or sexual orientation. We are unable to sponsor work visas for this project.  

Compensation

This is a full time position. Hope Street Group offers a competitive salary based on experience with vacation, sick days, health care, dental, and optional 403(b) plan.  

To Apply

Please create a user profile on www.hopestreetgroup.org and submit a cover letter, resume, writing sample, references, and salary requirements to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . No phone calls please.