ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE

Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization. Its mission is to advance the civil and human rights of Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. For 30 years, AAJC has served as the leading Asian American voice on civil rights issues in our nation’s capital – fighting for the rights of the communities which it serves through policy advocacy, community engagement, and litigation.

Special Projects Fellow

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Advancing Justice Policy & Programs department seeks an Innovator reporting directly to the Vice President of Policy & Programs to handle a diverse portfolio of special projects at the intersection of law and policy, including monitoring judicial and executive appointments, staffing coalition meetings, preparing research memoranda and backgrounders, and execution of government and stakeholder engagement strategy. This portfolio would also include issues such as court reform and other institutional reform efforts as well as newly emerging policy needs that cut across and/or require coordination across multiple program areas. This position is ideal for an individual with experience and interest at the intersection of law and policy and would offer both hands on experience in the day-to-day work of advocacy as well as a high-level view of federal policy issues. Duties and responsibilities include:

• Provide public policy research and analysis on issues related to judicial and executive appointments, court reform and other institutional reform efforts, and other emerging issues at the intersection of law and policy.
• Monitor and analyze legislation, regulations, and policy developments; prepare testimony, agency comments, legal briefs and memoranda, and other relevant material.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of strategic communications plans, including providing content support, drafting blog posts and press releases, and responding to press inquiries and making public speaking appearances as necessary and appropriate.
• Support the development and implementation of Community Partners Network strategies and activities on related policy issues.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with partners and relevant legal and advocacy groups within the civil rights and Asian American communities nationally and locally.
• Build strong and effective relationships with key stakeholders in the policy arena, allied organizations, coalitions, and policymakers.

DESIRED SKILLS

• One to two years of work experience in a related field preferred.
• Ability to operationalize vision, think strategically, creatively problem solve, exercise good judgment, and lead change.
• Experience working with diverse groups from various sectors.
• Excellent communicator and writer who can articulate messages to different audiences, including translating law and policy into plain language.
• Experience in government, advocacy, or policy research (including internships).

Strategic Communications Fellow

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Supervisor: Senior Director of Strategic Communications

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Advancing Justice communications team is looking for an Innovator to join its growing Communications department. AAJC seeks an individual who can work on projects that tell the timeline story of Asian Americans in several of its issue areas from voting rights to racial solidarity, and several issues in between. As an example, AAJC wants to create a narrative report of the timeline of voting rights in the Asian American community and demonstrate the continued need for progress in this area. An additional example includes the desire to show the interconnectivity of the histories in the Asian American, African American, and Latino American communities from the fight for education, voting rights, immigration, and more. The project will take multiple media formats from written documents (e.g. white papers) to multi-media content such (e.g. videos). The Innovator will also contribute to creating, building, and implementing integrated communications strategies that increase the organization’s impact within the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, advance its policy goals, and strengthen the organization’s brand.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Act as a thought partner to the Senior Director, Strategic Communications.
• Create and implement strategies and content to tell stories and to promote policy and programmatic initiatives.
• Contribute story ideas, ways to repurpose existing content, and provide recommendations for new tools, products, or ways of thinking about AAJC’s work.
• Assist with research, writing, copy editing, and development of owned media content like blogs, press releases, talking points, and campaign reports.
• Lead video shoots, including independently managing end-to-end process from video story boarding and shooting to editing and publishing.
• Manage video and audio productions, serving as camera operator, video editor, interviewer, lighting coordinator, audio recording operator and other roles as necessary and assigned.
• Produce high-quality visual media for website and multiple social media accounts that demonstrate technical sophistication and an ability to convey organizational or programmatic messages succinctly and clearly.
• Ability to lead the communications work in specific issue areas as needed.
• Lead or assist with research, writing, copy editing, and development of communications content like e-blasts, blogs, press releases, newsletters, talking points, and campaign reports.
• Develop multi-media content such as social media graphics or videos and other digital content as needed.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Up to two years of work experience in a related field.
• Experience in data analysis and research.
• Ability to operationalize vision, think strategically, creatively problem solve, exercise good judgment, and lead change.
• Excellent communicator and writer who can articulate messages to different audiences, including translating law and policy into plain language.
• A passion for storytelling on a multitude of issues and for a variety of communications products.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple work streams.
• Graphic design skills and familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite; Canva, etc.
• Tech-savvy, proficient with Google Office and Microsoft Suite.
• Competent at digital content management: Drupal, WordPress, Tweetdeck, etc.
• Self-starter, not afraid to take initiative and work independently.