Washington, DC

Organization: The Center for Education Reform (CER) on behalf of the Yass Prize.

Internship Goals & Objectives:

The 2023 Summer Interns will partner with CER and Yass Prize staff to help advance their missions by supporting various aspects of the work related to the Yass Prize application, education policy, and public outreach. 

Responsibilities: 

• Research issues, collect data, analyze reports, and support the creation of editorial content for the work being done by CER and The Yass Prize initiative.
• Provide social media support..
• Assist Yass Prize leadership with the application process.
• Assist with mailings, press releases, and database entries.
• Support in-person or virtual events and meetings as needed.

Key Attributes:

• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple administrative duties with accuracy and excellence.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to analyze and synthesize information concisely.
• Highly proficient with technology and various programs, including but not limited to, Gmail/Google Drive platform and Slack.
• Excellent time management skills, with an ability to take the initiative, work independently, and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.

Qualifications:                                        

• Applicants should be in their sophomore, junior, or senior year of college.
• An interest in education and public policy issues, a passion for education transformation, and a commitment to education freedom.

Timeline & Compensation:

• Summer 2023 Interns will work 25-40  hours per week from June 1 – July 31, 2023 and will be provided with a stipend of $200/week, prorated for fewer days.

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Interested? Submit your resume, a cover letter, and a 2-page writing sample addressing the following question: In your view, what is the largest problem with K-12 education in the U.S. today? All application materials should be sent to apply@edreform.com with the subject line “Internship Application” by February 15, 2023. More information can be found at YassPrize.org and edreform.com.

Washington, DC with potential for remote

Organization: The Center for Education Reform (CER) on behalf of the Yass Prize.

About The Yass Prize:

The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education celebrates the country’s education provider that best demonstrates the STOP principles. In addition to the $1 million Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative provides more than $10 million in additional support to honor educators who achieve excellence. The Yass Prize is administered through the Center for Education Reform and works in tandem to ensure exceptional execution of all efforts that advance the STOP principles.

About the role:

The Digital Media Manager is responsible for managing all digital media content for the organization – including but not limited to social media platforms, e-newsletters, and all other online communication. This role will report to the Senior Communications Manager.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage digital communications content, including social media, e-newsletters, press releases, presentations and other communications as assigned. Collaborate with leadership and consultants, where indicated, on design and messaging.
• Develop and distribute social and web communications (text, podcast and video) and ad campaigns as well as track and optimize performance/engagement metrics.
• Track the success of campaigns and identify options for ongoing improvement and strengthening of engagement and optimization of target metrics.
• Establish relationships with key influencers on social media.
• Manage all social media properties, including overseeing social media campaign
  schedules.
• Inform teams as well as act on important, relevant news
• Assist CER with weekly newsletters.
• Other duties as assigned.

Key attributes of this position

• Exceptional oral and written communication and proofing skills.
• Able to write and direct the creation and distribution of compelling materials.
• Comfortable and confident in working with high-level media.
• Proactive in bringing PR plans to life and have excellent relationships with reports.
• Communicate and coordinate exceptionally with team members.
• Be highly proficient in all 21st-century technologies and office applications.
• Entrepreneurial, personable, and tenacious.
• Passionate about education transformation.
• Conscientious about deliverables and continually striving to excel.
• Adaptable, flexible, innovative, and creative.
• Able to work with urgency in a busy environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in social sciences, or English.
• 3 – 5 years of experience desired in a fast-paced environment, preferred media relations experience, and/or experience within a political/public policy setting.
• Strong background in writing, copy editing, and media relations.
• Experience developing communications using online marketing platforms including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Campaign Monitor, Facebook Business Manager, Twitter Ads, Buffer, YouTube, WordPress, HTML, PowerPoint, and Cision.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $80,000-100,000 depending on years of experience, accomplishment and performance
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Retirement
• Paid Holiday, Sick, and Vacation time

Washington, DC

Organization: The Center for Education Reform (CER) on behalf of the Yass Prize.

About The Yass Prize:

The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education celebrates the country’s education provider that best demonstrates the STOP principles. In addition to the $1 million Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative provides more than $10 million in additional support to honor educators who achieve excellence. The Yass Prize is administered through the Center for Education Reform and works in tandem to ensure exceptional execution of all efforts that advance the STOP principles.

About the role:

The Policy Associate is responsible for monitoring, researching, writing and supporting projects and goals related to the policy issues at the heart of the organization’s mission. This individual will be diligent and detailed in synthesizing and summarizing data and hunger to know everything and be accurate in overseeing the issues being researched. The Policy Associate will collaborate with the communications team and report directly to the Executive Vice President.

Responsibilities include:

• Researching and tracking education issues and news.
• Supporting leadership at meetings, reporting out what occurs in the space, providing and initiating summaries, talking points and information, and developing materials.
• Driving data collection efforts and analysis of news.
• Participating in social media efforts.
• Many other duties as assigned.

Key attributes of this position

• General knowledge of and commitment to understanding K-12 education policy trends.
• Hardworking, conscientious, able to move work forward without continuous feedback.
• Eager to learn and grow in a role.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• Technology proficient and able to learn various systems quickly.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and social media a must.
• Excellent time management skills, with an ability to take the initiative, work. independently, and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
• Analytical thinker with a commitment to accuracy and excellence.

Qualifications

• Interest in K-12 education reform, public policy issues, and a passion for education transformation.
• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree plus at least 3 years of experience in public policy, basic analytical research, and/or statistical analysis.
• Experience and demonstrated proficiency with policy analysis and issue development.
• Ability to analyze data, make sound, logical conclusions, and develop the strategy.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range – $50,000-70,000 depending on experience.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Retirement
• Paid Holiday, Sick, and Vacation time

Washington, DC

Organization: The Center for Education Reform (CER) on behalf of the Yass Prize.

About The Yass Prize:

The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education celebrates the country’s education provider that best demonstrates the STOP principles. In addition to the $1 million Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative provides more than $10 million in additional support to honor educators who achieve excellence. The Yass Prize is administered through the Center for Education Reform and works in tandem to ensure exceptional execution of all efforts that advance the STOP principles.

About the role:

The Research Associate for Operations plays a critical role in helping to support the organization’s overall, day-to-day activities, from events and technology to systems and grant-making. This individual will have experience and affinity for managing data and be strong in organizational and time management. The position reports report directly to the Vice President of Finance and Operations.

Responsibilities include:

• Assisting in event management from ideation to completion
• Developing and executing written communications
• Support grants management
• Editing and proofreading
• Synthesize and report on data, including summarizing for use by leadership
• Research a variety of needs and information that assist with overall programs and operations
• Operate databases
• Manage certain kinds of data collection and metrics

Key attributes of this position

• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple administrative duties with accuracy and excellence
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to analyze and synthesize information concisely
• Highly proficient with technology and various programs including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and social media platforms.
• Excellent time management skills, with an ability to take the initiative, work independently, and meet multiple deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to analyze and execute plans based on data

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree plus 1-3 years of experience in basic research duties
• An interest in education and public policy issues and passionate for education transformation

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range – $60,000-90,000, depending on experience
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Retirement
• Paid Holiday, Sick, and Vacation time

Washington, DC with potential for remote

Organization: The Center for Education Reform (CER) on behalf of the Yass Prize.

About The Yass Prize:

The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education celebrates the country’s education provider that best demonstrates the STOP principles. In addition to the $1 million Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative provides more than $10 million in additional support to honor educators who achieve excellence. The Yass Prize is administered through the Center for Education Reform and works in tandem to ensure exceptional execution of all efforts that advance the STOP principles.

About the role:

The Senior Communications Manager is responsible for managing all public relations efforts for the organization, coordinating everything from media relations to internal, external and online communications. This role will report to the CEO and supervise the Digital Media Manager.

Responsibilities include:

• Plan and execute the production of the organization’s print and digital collateral (newsletters, awardee stories, media releases, web copy, and e-communications). Interact with awardees for story development
• Manage and execute the email communications and conduct media outreach for The Yass Prize and CER. Manage all writing and editing of content for print and digital collateral.
• Develop and steward relationships with media, identify media opportunities, and conduct outreach.
• Manage daily newsclips.
• Support development of PR effort around Yass Prize events, including script
  development and awardee engagement.
• Support communication and promotion of national Yass Prize campaigns.
• Provide content and graphic design support for all uses and outlets.
• Manage issue advocacy work in tandem with other team members.

Key attributes of this position

• Exceptional oral and written communication and proofing skills
• Able to write and direct the creation and distribution of compelling materials
• Comfortable and confident in working with high-level media
• Proactive in bringing PR plans to life and have excellent relationships with reports
• Communicate and coordinate exceptionally with team members
• Be highly proficient in all 21st-century technologies and office applications
• Entrepreneurial, personable, and tenacious
• Passionate about education transformation
• Conscientious about deliverables and continually striving to excel
• Adaptable, flexible, innovative, and creative
• Able to work with urgency in a busy environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in social sciences, or English
• 3 – 5 years of experience desired in a fast-paced environment
• Strong background in writing, copy editing, and media relations
• Experience developing communications using online marketing platforms
• Strong background in project management, event organization and execution

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $100,000 – $145,000 depending on years of experience, accomplishment and performance
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Retirement
• Paid Holiday, Sick, and Vacation time

East Coast (Washington, DC, Philadelphia or New York preferred)

Organization: The Center for Education Reform (CER) on behalf of the Yass Prize.

About The Yass Prize:

The Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education celebrates the country’s education provider that best demonstrates the STOP principles. In addition to the $1 million Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative provides more than $10 million in additional support to honor educators who achieve excellence. The Yass Prize is administered through the Center for Education Reform and works in tandem to ensure exceptional execution of all efforts that advance the STOP principles.

About the role:

We envision this role to be directly involved in the development of messages and strategies that help communicate the work of The Yass Prize and the Center for Education Reform far and wide throughout the nation, finding and building alliances that help amplify the work, and in partnership with the digital and media teams, which would be co-directed by this position. While this position would not be responsible for media and communications, it would be directly attached and integrated into that work. The person in this role would support, direct and coach the communications staffers. The Vice President of Advocacy is responsible for developing and overseeing the efforts to make The Yass Prize a household name while enhancing the awareness and knowledge of the STOP for education principles. The position will work directly with leadership on developing a communications and partnership strategy that will help further our objectives. Execution is the responsibility of the Vice President of Advocacy. The person in this role will build robust and collaborative internal and external relationships to achieve The Yass Prize priorities.

Responsibilities include:

Strategic leadership in Advocacy, Communications, and Engagement

• Drive a growth-oriented comprehensive strategic marketing and communications program that effectively communicates and perpetuates The Yass Prize’s story and value proposition among key audiences, especially in growing the number of applicants for The Yass Prize.
• Drive a mobilization strategy that builds and activates a movement of STOP education principles champions through meaningful engagement, network development and support, and other approaches.
• Utilize, support and be the primary liaison to all Yass Prize and STOP Award alumni.
• Manage The Yass Prize community of applicants to drive movement change.
• Drive team and organizational focus on targeted regional/state strategies that bring an integrated approach to inclusive growth paired with strategic stakeholder relationship management.
  •  Identify, document, and communicate with organizations and networks that can promote and amplify the STOP Award (i.e. SPN, Philanthropy Roundtable).  This also includes communication with organizations that already support our work. 
• Manage issue advocacy campaigns supporting The Yass Prize goals and objectives related to communications-related priorities.
• Participate and lead on the organization’s senior leadership team.

Team Leadership

• Lead and co-manage with the CEO a communications team with direct reports, including the Digital Media Manager and Communications Manager.
  • Develop and coordinate communications strategies to reach and inform critical audiences.
  • Ensure digital, social, and earned media efforts and goals are fully integrated.

Key attributes of this position

• Leadership acumen
• Driven, entrepreneurial, personable, and tenacious 
• Experienced managing complex projects and people with calm
• Comfortable and confident in working with high-level media
• Communicates and coordinate exceptionally with team members, 
• Highly proficient in all 21st-century technologies and office applications
• Passionate about education transformation
• Conscientious about deliverables and continually striving to excel
• Adaptable, flexible, innovative, and creative
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Qualifications

• 8-10  years of experience working in communications-related roles
• Incredibly well-organized 
• Strong time management skills
• Bachelor’s degree /Master’s in a business-focussed area a plus

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $140,000 – $180,000 depending on years of experience, accomplishment and performance
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Retirement 
• Paid Holiday, Sick, and Vacation time

Interested? Send interest statement and resume to apply@edreform.com
More information can be found at yassprize.org and edreform.com.

About CER: Working to advance education innovation and opportunity for nearly 3 decades, the Center for Education Reform also today administers the $1 Million Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless Education which celebrates the country’s education provider which best demonstrates the STOP principles. In conjunction with the Yass Prize, the STOP Awards Initiative provides over $16 million in support annually to honor educators who achieve excellence.

CER is an equal opportunity employer, especially committed to equal opportunity for all in education and life and fostering diversity in our workplaces. All applicants are encouraged to apply!