FAS Director, Fellowships and Products Washington, DC

Does FAS sound like an organization that you would be energized to join? Is it aligned to your values?

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) takes quite seriously our role as a beacon and voice for the science community.

FAS has a rich history: after the devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, a group of atomic researchers – deeply concerned about the use of science for malice – created an organization committed to using science and technology to benefit humanity.

The group they created – the Federation of Atomic Scientists – soon became the Federation of American Scientists in recognition of the hundreds of scientists across diverse disciplines who joined together to speak with one voice for the betterment of the world.

Today, we are a group of entrepreneurial, intrepid changemakers, forging a better future for all through the nexus of science, technology and talent. We value equity, inclusion, and transparency. As a collective, we are building an organization focused on being impact-driven, customer-focused, and growth-oriented as a force for good in the world.

What leadership skills do you need to possess to be a strong candidate?

• Provide vision and strategic direction for our signature initiatives that seek to power a policy entrepreneurship revolution – our policy entrepreneurship programming and talent fellowships platform, ensuring alignment with FAS’s overall mission and organizational priorities
• Develop and execute multi-year strategies to expand the reach, impact, and sustainability of both initiatives through the creation of replicable, scalable products
• Serve as a senior member of the FAS leadership team, contributing to organization-wide strategic planning and decision-making
• Represent FAS in external forums, conferences, and meetings with senior government officials, foundation leaders, and other key stakeholders
• Work closely with the FAS development team to secure funding from foundations, government grants, and individual donors
• Cultivate strategic partnerships with universities, nonprofits, research institutions, professional societies, and industry
• Develop collaborative relationships with aligned organizations in the science policy ecosystem, identifying opportunities for joint initiatives, co-funding and shared resources

• Build and oversee deployment of the scalable infrastructure for programming, training, community-building and processes for converting promising ideas into policy action.
• Work across FAS domains in partnership with FAS subject matter experts, fellows, contractors and expert reviewers and contributors.
• Translate proven FAS models into a movement at scale that activates new communities, secures new partnerships, and builds a deeper ethos of policy entrepreneurship in S&T policy making, while scaling a sustainable operating model.
• Ensure Day One Project deliverables are timely, high-quality, and strategically positioned for maximum impact.
• Coordinate dissemination strategies to place recommendations before policymakers, the scientific community, and the public.
• Pursue opportunities to integrate our policy entrepreneurship engine with our talent and fellowships platform to drive greater impact.
• Oversee and expand the FAS Talent Hub’s work to put policy entrepreneurship into practice, by connecting technical experts with high-impact government positions across federal and state governments, and ensure their success, as well as connecting experts at all levels with roles in civil society.
• Develop recruitment strategies to build a robust pipeline of science and technology talent interested in public service and civil society and inculcate them in the policy entrepreneurship ethos.
• Cultivate relationships with new partners at state and federal agencies and congressional committees seeking technical expertise, and help them curate high-impact opportunities for fellows to drive impact.
• Track and evaluate the impact of talent placements on government capacity and policy outcomes.
• Pursue opportunities to integrate more deeply our Talent Hub’s work with FAS’ engine for policy entrepreneurship to…