Health Care Associate

PIRG is an advocate for consumers. We’re hiring a Campaign Associate to build public support for our work to bring down health care costs and improve the quality of patient care in the United States. Our Health Care Campaign Associate will support campaigns to lower prescription drugs costs, address runaway prices in hospitals and fight for stronger patient protections from unfair medical bills.

Key responsibilities

• Build powerful coalitions: Reach out to a broad range of organizations and affected constituency groups across the political spectrum to demonstrate support for our campaign goals.
• Earn traditional media and social media attention: Respond to media requests and write press releases and opinion pieces. Develop relationships with key health reporters. Build a following on social media for your campaign.
• Lobby elected officials: Meet with decision makers - from city council members to state or federal legislators - to make the case for our campaign goals. When a critical vote is happening on your campaign, work to demonstrate the support you’ve been building on the ground to help line up the votes needed to win.
• Research and write reports: Translate data relevant to the issue and repackage it into compact and easy-to-understand reports that support our policy proposals. Develop fact sheets and explainers to help influence public debate and earn media attention for our cause.
• Recruit new people to your team and campaigns: Help build your team by recruiting volunteers, interns and full-time staff. Reach out to people who contact us about their medical billing problems to engage them in our campaigns.
• Run a grassroots campaign office each summer: Run a campaign office for the summer, knocking on doors to raise money to support our campaigns, build our organization and membership, and help build critical and timely grassroots support to win key campaigns. Your responsibilities will include meeting your own fundraising goals and managing a team of paid staff. You may be assigned to a different office location for the summer and should be flexible to move.

Qualifications

Entry-level candidates are encouraged to apply. Though we expect you to take your campaign and run with it, we provide training on advocacy and organizing skills, as well as oversight by an experienced advocate. Ideal candidates will have:

• Leadership experience
• Top-notch writing and public speaking skills
• An eagerness to learn, and be ready for a challenge
• Organizing experience, including building campus or community groups
• Experience in health care or knowledge of health care policy is a plus

Compensation and Benefits

The target annual compensation for this position is $38,250-$39,500. PIRG offers an excellent benefits package. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, time off, a commuter benefit program, a 401(k) plan with employer match, parental leave, long term disability insurance, and may include needs-based student loan assistance. We also offer an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement.

Location: Washington, DC

Apply: https://jobs.publicinterestnetwork.org/postings/788af11e-01ac-4faa-bcbd-c532ccfb3f1f.

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About PIRG

PIRG is an advocate for consumers, advancing solutions to problems that affect our health, our safety and our well-being.

Being a consumer advocate means being a champion for a marketplace that is not only honest and transparent, but also wastes less because it reduces, reuses and recycles more; prevents toxic threats to our health and safety; and considers the impact of new products and technologies on the next generation, not just the next quarterly earnings report.

The true North Star of a successful marketplace should not be the quantity of “stuff” we consume. It should be the quality of our lives.

Our Mission and Values

PIRG is part of The Public Interest Network, which operates and supports organizations committed to a shared vision of a better world and a strategic approach to social change. Visit https://pirg.org/core-values/ for things you should know about our network when you apply.

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PIRG is an equal opportunity employer.