Director, Government Affairs and Outreach

Operations Department

Overall Responsibility:

America First Policy Institute (AFPI) seeks a director for its growing Government Affairs division. Reporting to the Head of Government Affairs, the candidate will play a key role within the division, managing AFPI’s policy positions, communicating with Members and their staff, tracking implementation of the America First Agenda at the federal level, helping to facilitate backend resources, managing outreach, and more.

Responsibilities and Duties:

Support implementing strategy alignment to advance critical AFPI policy goals
Working closely with communications and various policy centers to ensure perspective is built into communications and legislative initiatives, while managing a larger team
Working with AFPI’s policy centers to monitor and track federal legislative successes
Together with the Head of Government Affairs and larger government affairs team, drive AFPI’s policy agenda with federal lawmakers
Monitor, interpret, and analyze federal policy developments as well as emerging topics in the media. Work with the team to develop AFPI’s capacity to assess those issues and topics to take specific positions
Work with the Head of Government Affairs AND OTHERS to develop materials for policy outreach and publicize our work strategically through both media relations and thought leadership, including authoring relevant studies and research.
Support the government affairs team on major launches, POLICY campaigns, events, and initiatives

Type of Employment:

Full-Time

Qualifications:

4-10 years of relevant experience
Experience working in a regulatory or legislative office
Excellent writing and social communications skills
Superior research skills; ability to quickly and accurately pull key facts or statistics to support a broader policy position
Experience working with policy and academic communities
Experience analyzing and interpreting legislative and regulatory language
Established network in like-minded organizations

Salaries for positions will be commensurate with the experience, expertise, and skills of the individual. Please send a cover letter, resume, salary requirements or expectations, writing samples, and references.

AFPI is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute offering competitive salaries and benefits to qualified candidates.

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