KAP 2026-2027 - Program Associate for Trustee & Government Affairs - American Council of Trustees and Alumni

The Program Associate for Trustee & Government Affairs advances ACTA’s core values of academic excellence, academic freedom, and accountability by assisting the Associate Director of External Affairs in maintaining ACTA’s national network of trustees and elected officials and improving ACTA’s communications with those audiences in coordination with ACTA’s Trustees and Government Affairs Department.

Specifically, the Program Associate performs the following tasks:

• Assisting the Associate Director of External Affairs with communications and outreach to trustees, governors, policymakers, and related constituent groups, including responding to research questions and coordinating with other departmental staff on outreach projects.
• Organizing ACTA’s trustee events and webinar programs, including seeing through selection of participants, event marketing, logistical management, and constituent communications.
• Ensuring quality control of ACTA’s database of college and university trustees, assisting with database administration on an as-needed basis; overseeing database work of interns and outside contractors.
• Managing the department’s direct mail and e-mail campaigns, including serving as the department’s primary point of contact with ACTA’s mail house vendor, facilitating department mass mailings, and responding to resource requests from constituents.
• Drafting correspondence and/or policy statements directed to higher education stakeholders including boards of trustees and government bodies.
• Providing research, logistical, and operational support to departmental initiatives including targeted mailings, trustee publications, events, and ACTA’s board services.

The Program Associate must approach these tasks as an entrepreneurial enterprise, requiring an understanding of and proactive approach to ACTA’s programming activities. The Program Associate is expected to be personable, dynamic, well organized, highly motivated, and principled, and to act with the highest degree of personal responsibility, accountability, and honesty. This role is Washington, DC based, and applicants must be able to reliably commute to the ACTA office. Hybrid arrangements may be considered for exceptional candidates. The salary for this position ranges from $50,000 to $55,000, depending on experience.