The Center for Science in the Public Interest is scaling up its food safety efforts with the creation of a new position beginning in January 2027.
The Campaign Manager will lead and advance the center’s campaigns for stronger, evidence-based food safety policies addressing foodborne pathogens and fraudulent or dangerous dietary supplements.
The manager will work full time to to design and execute state and federal advocacy campaigns to promote standards to limit food contamination, ensure product testing, enhance research and regulatory programs, and otherwise advance safety. In addition, the manager will work on campaigns opposing efforts to defund, deregulate, or impede enforcement of existing safeguards.
The Campaign Manager will report to the Director of Regulatory Affairs and collaborate with colleagues across the organization involved with CSPI’s food safety and regulatory campaigns. The center’s office in Washington D.C. offers a hybrid work environment with staff free to work from home but available for occasional in-person meetings based on team needs. Many of the center’s staff work remotely, and we will consider D.C.-based or remote applicants within the United States.
Essential duties and responsibilities
- Oversee the development and implementation of strategies to advance food pathogen safety and securing policies to enhance outbreak response and prevention. This work includes developing and implementing issue briefs, campaign and project plans, and budgets.
- Support campaign strategies to advance dietary supplement safety efforts, including developing and implementing projects.
- Engage in policy design, develop policy targets, prioritize and identify strategic opportunities to advance federal and state regulatory and legislative reforms.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with coalition partners, including scheduling, drafting agendas, and representing the organization in meetings with coalition partners and regulators at FDA, USDA, and CDC.
- Develop and update high-quality written advocacy materials, including regulatory comments, testimony, fact sheets, advocacy letters, op-eds, action alerts, articles, and social media content.
- Engage in advocacy with state and federal lawmakers and regulators in collaboration with CSPI's Legislative Affairs and Community Engagement teams, including member education, cultivating relationships, power-mapping, and constituent engagement.
- Ensure high-quality work product, including preparing documents for internal fact-checking by peers and serving as peer fact-checker.
- Carry out other departmental activities as needed.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated commitment to public-interest advocacy and consumer protections, ideally with substantial demonstrated training or experience in food safety policy.
- Substantial experience with state or federal policy advocacy, including congressional and regulatory advocacy (Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years' experience or professional/graduate degree and 5+ years’ experience).
- Experience implementing and supporting successful policy/advocacy campaigns and maintaining the partnerships necessary for advancing those campaigns.
- Exceptional written communication skills with experience writing policy documents (regulatory comments, testimony, advocacy letters, fact sheets, op-eds, action alerts, articles, and social media content).
- Ability to understand and communicate complex public policy topics effectively and persuasively to a policy and lay audience, with experience and comfort with public speaking. Media relations experience a plus.
- Excellent judgment, professionalism, and interpersonal skills demonstrated through a history of effective collaboration and teamwork.
- Demonstrated skills in organization/project management, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and take responsibility for multiple projects and deadlines.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret legal, policy, and scientific documents.
- Proficiency with MSOffice applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Familiarity with social media and other web-based research and advocacy tools.
- Beneficial skills/experience: Training in microbiology or food safety, academic research experience, or a prior position at a state or federal executive or legislative body.
About CSPI: The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a food and health watchdog, and is one of the nation’s leading public health advocacy organizations with a 50-year record of fighting for science in the public interest. The center has led efforts to win passage of many federal, state, and local policies to improve food safety and nutrition. The center’s victories include successfully petitioning FDA to ban partially hydrogenated oils and carcinogenic flavorings; lobbying states to ban harmful food additives; and lobbying successfully for the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act. The center does not take corporate donations, allowing it to serve as an independent voice for consumers in the food system.
Compensation
The salary range for the new manager’s position is $94,000 to $110,000 per year, based on experience. The actual salary offered will take into consideration many factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, internal pay equity, and organizational needs. CSPI offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes: three weeks of annual vacation leave; additional paid holiday leave between Dec. 24 and Jan. 1; eight weeks of paid parental leave; excellent medical and dental insurance with CSPI paying a significant portion of employee and dependent premiums; and a 3 percent employer match contribution to the retirement plan after six months of service. We also offer half-day Fridays, which means full-time staff work 36 hours per week.
Please use CSPI's Paylocity Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to apply for this position. Applicants are required to submit a resume and cover letter highlighting relevant experience and interest. The deadline to apply is Oct. 30, 2026.
