Senior Manager, State Government Relations

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🕒 April 14

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $81k - $87k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Dorskin

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🛍️ eCommerce

🏢 Enterprise

🔐 Security

eCommerce • Enterprise • Security

Dorskin is a company focused on providing secure and user-friendly access to email and other applications. Utilizing Google Account integrations, it aims to enhance user experience by allowing seamless sign-in processes and offering multilingual support for diverse users. Dorskin prioritizes privacy and ease of use, making it convenient for individuals to access their digital communication services.

📋 Description

• Support Share Our Strength and its mission to end childhood hunger and poverty in America by advancing its state government relations efforts. • Collaborate with partners and stakeholders, as well as colleagues across Share Our Strength to develop and execute state government relations strategies and tactics to preserve and expand state access to nutrition assistance programs. • Track progress and course correct as needed to meet goals. • Represent Share Our Strength in coalitions and in meetings with state-elected officials and legislative staff. • Work with the Associate Director of State Government Relations and in collaboration with the public policy team and internal state campaign managers to identify state legislative priorities and lead the execution of assigned state government relations initiatives. • Track and help to advance state legislative goals, with a primary focus on SNAP-related policy changes at the state level. • Collaborate across internal teams to develop government relations strategies and identify and monitor campaign progress throughout the year. • Oversee the work and performance of contracted lobbyists supporting specific state campaigns. • Create materials and provide background research for state legislative activities, including briefings, hearings, and training webinars for advocate networks. • Draft testimony, letters of support, meeting requests, and other documents relevant to state policy campaigns. • Maintain relationships with national organizations representing state elected officials and execute major events throughout the year that further government relations goals and priorities. • Communicate progress and facilitate shared understanding of government relations metrics, strategies, tactics, and impact among external and internal stakeholders, including senior leadership. • Represent Share Our Strength to external audiences, including through presentations at conferences, community events, meetings with policymakers and similar forums. • Provide strategic counsel and meaningful input to Government Relations and Advocacy and Share Our Strength Program Departments leadership during annual planning and on other strategic matters. • Partner with colleagues to support Share Our Strength's work to be a diverse and inclusive organization, and ensure this value is embedded in the organization and throughout our work. • Lead organizational workgroups as needed and may manage an intern.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. • 5-8 years of relevant experience in state-level issue advocacy, lobbying, or public policy. • Preference for experience working on nutrition and anti-poverty policy change. • Demonstrated knowledge and experience of working with elected officials and coalitions. • Expertise and history of SNAP advocacy through previous work, or knowledge of and/or experience working on anti-hunger and poverty policy change at the state level. • Track record of developing and managing effective and collaborative partnerships both externally and internally, including the ability to cultivate and maintain positive long-term relationships. • Demonstrated ability to build diverse legislative coalitions and manage state relationships from across the ideological spectrum, aligned organizations, and community leaders to achieve specific policy goals. • Demonstrated ability to initiate, organize, and prioritize multiple projects while identifying challenges and developing effective strategic recommendations. • Outstanding written and oral communications skills, including experience presenting to high-level audiences. • Expertise in monitoring and reporting on assigned state policy change efforts, including pending and enacted legislation, regulatory action, and other state developments as directed. • Must be self-directed with excellent time and project management skills, with strict attention to detail and minimal supervision. • Strong interpersonal skills, with a collaborative, team-oriented approach and personal qualities that include drive, determination, flexibility, and open-mindedness.

🏖️ Benefits

• health insurance • dental insurance • vision insurance • retirement • wellness benefits • paid time off (vacation leave, sick leave, personal leave, holiday, parental leave, bereavement leave, military leave, and jury duty leave)