Congress Watch Director

Congress Watch Director

Public Citizen is a national, non-partisan, public interest group with over 500,000 members and activists. The Congress Watch division conducts public education campaigns and advocates before Congress, the White House, and administrative agencies on corporate accountability, consumer protection, access to justice, healthcare, worker health and safety, progressive tax policy, budget and military spending issues, tech policy including AI, privacy, and anti-trust, and public health and safety. This position reports to Public Citizen's co-presidents.

General Description Of Position :

The Congress Watch Director coordinates and oversees a team of 10-15 people working on diverse public interest policy issues including a managing director. The CW Director will also create cross-cutting advocacy strategy across Public Citizen in close collaboration with the co-presidents, and directly lead some discrete policy and coalition work.

We're looking for someone who combines a lot of attributes :

• A leader who can develop and implement bold, aggressive and effective campaign and lobbying strategies
• A coalition builder and leader who can help guide multiple issue-specific coalitions
• A deft lobbyist
• A policy expert on at least one of the Congress Watch subject matter areas, with broad policy familiarity and dexterity
• A team leader with experience mentoring and coaching staff and the ability to foster equity and inclusion
• A strong fundraiser
• A person who can keep a lot of balls in the air at once
• Someone who is excited about taking on corporate power and shares our commitment to advancing health, safety, democracy and justice

Responsibilities :

Qualifications :

Fifteen years of experience in a legislative setting or in campaign-oriented public interest advocacy, including ten years as a supervisor preferred. Proven interpersonal and management skills. Outstanding analytical thinking, political judgment, and oral and written communication skills. High energy and enthusiasm. Law or other professional degrees are a plus.

Salary And Benefits :

Competitive non-profit salary commensurate with experience; excellent medical and dental coverage; three weeks paid vacation for new employees.

$144,185 - $183,835

Benefits include :

To apply : Send cover letter, resume, and writing sample to Rachit Choksi at rchoksi@citizen.org. Please include your last name and the position for which you are applying in the subject line of your email and in the filenames of attachments.