Home Grown

Today's edition brings you nothing but DC (and close-by Virginia and Maryland) jobs in public affairs, communications and related fields – in a fit of low-grade xenophobia, we reject and ignore the usual handful of far-flung opportunities that usually show up as by-catch in our daily haul.

514) Alzheimer’s Association – Associate Director, Federal Affairs

515) American Association of School Administrators – Legislative Specialist

516) Association for Women in Science – Marketing & Communications Manager

517) Brookings Institution – Senior Conference Facilities Assistant

518) Bureau of Land Management – Legislative Affairs Specialist – $74k-$115k – job ID: WO-DEU-2010-0068 – apply by Aug. 30

519) Center for Science in the Public Interest – Project Assistant for Nutrition Action Newsletter

520) Conservation International – Events Coordinator

521) CQ/Roll Call – Managing Editor, Legislative Action

522) Democracy Data – Senior Public Affairs Writer

523) Friends of the National Arboretum – Director of Development – part-time - $35/hr

524) Helicopter Association International – Executive Assistant to the President

525) Indian Law Resource Center – Program Assistant (pdf) – apply by Sept. 15

526) Institute of Food Technologies – Manager, Science & Policy Initiatives

527-532) International Foundation for Electoral Systems – these are all DC-based:

• Program Associate, Africa – French fluency required
• Program Coordinator, MENA (we suspect that stands for Middle East/North Africa)
• Program Manager, MENA
• Program Officer, Afghanistan
• Program Officer, Iraq
• Program Officer, Liberia

533) The Lukens Company – Political Account Assistant

534) National Association of Independent Schools – Director, Legislative Affairs – $60k-$75k

535) National Association of Realtors – RPAC Online Fundraising Representative

536) National Farmers Union – Communications Coordinator (pdf) - $30k-$35k

537) National Institute on Retirement Security – Executive Director – search managed by EFL Associates

538) National Institutes of Health – Legislative Liaison – $105k-$136k – job ID: HHS/NIH-2010-2350 - apply by Aug. 19

539-540) Natural Resources Defense Council:

• Federal Building Energy Efficiency Advocate
• Communications Manager

541-542) Pew Charitable Trusts:

• Senior Associate, Economic Mobility Project
• Project Manager, Kids’ Safe and Healthful Food Campaign

543) Spectrum Communications – Account Exec – also Assistant and Senior varieties

544) Stateside Associates – Legislative Associate

545) Vanderbilt University – Director of Federal Relations, Health and Biomedical Sciences – DC-based – apply by Sept. 3

546) Van Eperan & Company – Account Coordinator