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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) seeks a "Consumer Protection Advocate"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- Please apply through our website:
<a href="https://jobs.uspirg.org/consumer-watchdog-advocate.html">https://jobs.uspirg.org/consumer-watchdog-advocate.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">- The Consumer Protection Advocate position is the same as the U.S. PIRG Consumer Watchdog Advocate </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">ABOUT THE JOB</span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"><br>
U.S. PIRG seeks a Consumer Protection Advocate to uncover unsafe products, unfair practices, or exploitative policies that leave consumers vulnerable in the marketplace. We're looking for an experienced political advocate to be responsible for campaign development,
media outreach, coalition-building, advocacy, and coordinating among our state affiliates; fundraising; as well as staff recruitment and development.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Too often in the pursuit of economic growth, products, technologies, and practices that put consumers health, safety, or well-being at risk are brought to market. In just the last few years, Equifax exposed private
personal and financial information of 147 million people. VW defrauded consumers when they cheated on diesel air quality standards, the nuclear industry won multi-billion dollar ratepayer bailouts, Wells Fargo created millions of fake customer accounts, while
loopholes have let unsafe drugs hit the market, killing some patients. Even well-informed consumers will struggle to navigate all of these problems, and that is where the PIRG Consumer Protection Advocate comes in.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">For more than 40 years, U.S. PIRG has been a national leader in alerting consumers to the threats in the marketplace by advocating for policy solutions, developing consumer guides to help the public protect themselves,
and shifting the marketplace so it protects consumers first. Our work has led to more than 150 unsafe toys being recalled due to our annual watchdog report. We helped establish identity theft protections in 49 states. And, we helped create the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, reforming wall street and reining in abusive practices in the financial marketplace. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">RESPONSIBILITIES:</span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"><br>
<b>Media Outreach: </b>Serve as the spokesperson for our campaigns through media events, press releases, and opinion writing. Keep abreast of consumer issues, raise the profile of consumer issues in the media. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Coalition Building: </span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Build relationships, coordinate and mobilize support with key constituencies, including legal allies, consumers, business owners and
others.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Watchdog: </span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Identify failures in the marketplace that hurt consumers and rapid response plans to highlight those issues in the media, mobilize our network
and allies, and develop guides to empower consumers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Advocacy: </span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Advocate for policies that will protect and empower consumers. Build relationships with players in key regulatory agencies, statehouses, in Congress,
and other forums where relevant decisions are being made. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Campaign Strategy: </span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Develop plans to win our campaigns using research, advocacy, coalition-building, media attention, and grassroots mobilization; assess
opportunities for building political support for our agenda. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Fundraising: </span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Write grant proposals, build relationships with foundations, and meet with major donors, to bring more resources to our campaigns. Work with
our citizen outreach staff to build and deepen our membership base. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Staff Recruitment and Development: </span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Recruit new staff and volunteers. Oversee other staff working on our Consumer Program team, coordinate with our state
staff and provide training and leadership development. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">QUALIFICATIONS</span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"><br>
Candidates must have at least 4 years of relevant professional experience. Advanced degrees like a JD, or a master's degree may count toward experience. Qualified candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to public interest or consumer issues and to citizen-based
social change, as well as a track record of leadership. We're looking for people who are goal-driven and results-oriented, who have excellent verbal, written, and analytical skills, the ability to speak persuasively in a charged atmosphere, and driven to make
positive policy change.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rina Ravisundar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Digital Campaign and Recruitment Intern<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Public Interest Network<o:p></o:p></p>
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