Director of Government Affairs

October 31

🌵 Arizona – Remote

Although this job is listed in Arizona, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

🏄 California – Remote

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+26 more states

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🐊 Florida – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🌪️ Kansas – Remote 🎰 Nevada – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🌶️ New Mexico – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🏈 Ohio – Remote 🌪️ Oklahoma – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🏰 Missouri – Remote 🌴 South Carolina – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote 🧀 Wisconsin – Remote

💵 $180k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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HopSkipDrive

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Transport • Education • Enterprise

HopSkipDrive is a leading provider of innovative and scalable school transportation solutions, partnering with schools, districts, and counties to provide safe, reliable transportation for youth. They specialize in providing alternatives to traditional school bus routes, catering to students' non-routine needs, those in foster care, and students with special transportation requirements. HopSkipDrive also supports personalized and small group transportation solutions, and uses RouteWise AI technology for transportation optimization. Their service is known for being 40% more affordable than traditional underutilized bus routes. They also address challenges such as bus driver shortages and provide a flexible network of CareDrivers, ensuring safety and reliability.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🚗 Transport

📚 Education

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $37M Series D on 2022-09

📋 Description

• Develop and implement a comprehensive government affairs strategy that advances HopSkipDrive's overall goals and objectives • Oversee the Government Relations team • Develop, execute, and simultaneously manage multi-faceted advocacy campaigns that enable the business to expand opportunities in the U.S. • Ability to integrate and align internal company priorities into effective advocacy & policy campaigns with proven outcomes; • Expertise in legislative and advocacy engagement, including the ability to build and lead coalitions to advance company and policy needs; • Draft and edit position papers, testimony, and comments on proposed legislative and regulatory actions; • Ability to drive outcomes in a fast-paced environment, and pivot in response to areas of opportunity • Supervise the management of external consultants to help execute proactive and reactive government affairs strategies

🎯 Requirements

• Established government relations expert with at least 8-10 years of experience working on State-level policy issues in a relevant business or non-governmental organization—or in a political, governmental, or regulatory context. A mix of public and private sector experience is an advantage. • Direct policy/engagement experience, preferably in the following fields: transportation/TNCs, education, child welfare • Exceptional project management skills, with proven ability to establish and grow impact initiatives and advisory councils • Strong analysis and critical thinking skills; ability to resolve sophisticated and unfamiliar problems creatively. • Ability to lead and prioritize several competing goals, and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders and manage complex issues effectively with minimal input or direction. • Supervisory experience with the ability to be a strategic leader to other managers on the team. Ability to mentor and develop their team and tactfully dispense actionable feedback. • Subject to approval, the ability to control planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods. • Willingness and ability to travel

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Flexible vacation • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • 401(k) • FSA • Opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company