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Microsoft – Director of Regulatory Affairs – experience with federal regulatory and legislative process or directly related activities strongly preferred

ONE Campaign:

• Press Secretary
• Assistant Designer
• Assistant Director, U.S. Government Relations
• New England Regional Field Director – New Hampshire location
• Director, Agriculture & Europe Policy – based in Berlin, Brussels, London, or Paris – apply by Jan. 10

American University – Admin Assistant, School of Public Affairs – $16-$18/hr – apply by Dec. 26

Your top task as Government Affairs Attaché for the Government of Quebec? We’d like to think it’s scoring fine tickets for visiting Quebecois whenever the Canadians are in town to face the Caps. We’re usually wrong about this sort of thing. Fluency in French required, apply by Jan. 16

Barbaricum is an ancient Roman Army term referring to the frontier beyond the charted Roman Empire -- the great unknown, full of chaos and seemingly void of order, and presumably the kind of thing you be challenged to tame at this consulting/communications outfit with a (we think) focus in energy issues:

• Strategic Communications & Public Affairs Advisor
• Financial Outreach & Policy Advisor
• Senior Strategic Communications Assessment Analyst
• Intern

The Methanol Institute is looking for an Intern to assist with our government affairs and external communications responsibilities – conveniently located in the near-Metro/Hard Times Café precinct of Old Town, Alexandria.

Summer in Aberdeen, MD? Ripken Baseball/Aberdeen Ironbirds – PR/Radio Broadcasting Intern – $30/game – for current college students or May 2012 grads

Intuit:

• Director, State & Local Government Relations
• Senior Policy & Issue Manager

The American Chemical Society is seeking candidates with 7+ years of experience in public relations, communications, or similar field for Senior Communications Officer

If you love raising money and can't stand the GOP, a Mystery Super PAC would like to make you a Fundraiser.

Scroll down for possibly active or perhaps just evergreen calls for Account Supervisor or Senior/Regular Strength Account Exec posts with Spectrum Communications.

Noted career advice dispenser Heather Huhman now helms HR/PR, branding & communications operation Come Recommended - which has spots on the team for Senior Content Creator and Media & Blogger Relations Director, as well as multiple Vice President opportunities. For those of you still in (or recently out of) the happy cocoon of college, you might want to check out her book Lies, Damned Lies & Internships book before classes start up again in January.

University of Maryland – Associate Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations – $69k-$87k

Laffer Center for Supply-Side Economics/Teas Public Policy Foundation – Austin, TX – searches managed by Talent Market

• Director of Outreach & Communications
• Staff Economist

We have it on good authority that the University of Virginia is still in active search mode for this Assistant Director for Alumni & Parent Engagement opportunity – $33k-$58k – Charlottesville, Va.