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The Center on Rural Innovation is an Equal Opportunity Employer — people of color, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. We are committed to a diverse workplace, and to supporting our staff with ongoing career development opportunities. We are interested in your ambitions, personal experiences, great ideas, and passions, and believe that everyone’s unique story and perspective adds value to our organization.
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Director of Research, Knowledge, and EvaluationThis role leads the organization's thought leadership work and provides support to other teams through research, data analytics, and knowledge development that informs our strategy and fact-based narrative changes about what is possible in rural America
Open positions at Rural Innovation Strategies, Inc. (RISI)
RISI is the collaborating organization of the Center on Rural Innovation.
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Director of Communications and MarketingThis role will be responsible for developing, planning, budgeting, and implementing marketing and communications strategies across the entire organization, and will work collaboratively across teams and serve their evolving communications and marketing needs.
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Entrepreneurship ConsultantThis role is responsible for the creation and execution of new programs and products for rural communities building tech entrepreneurship ecosystems. The ideal candidate brings experience in related fields as well as managing internal and external stakeholder relationships.
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Head of Federal Grants SupportThis role will develop and execute on a strategy for accessing federal funds to accelerate tech-based economic development for rural communities, provide federal grant application support expertise to rural communities, and lead a growing federal grant support team.
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Senior Broadband ConsultantThis role will independently lead client projects, delivering high-quality client services to a variety of public sector leaders as they move from initial ideation, through pre-development and feasibility, through funding acquisition and finally into construction.
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Director of Impact ConsultingThis role will lead consulting and technical support activities, managing and developing a team of 13-plus to execute client work at the highest level and evolve CORI/RISI’s service offerings in a way that supports our mission and drives our next stage of growth.
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Broadband ConsultantThis role will independently lead client projects, delivering high-quality client services to a variety of public sector leaders as they move from initial ideation, through pre-development and feasibility, through funding acquisition and finally into construction.