Director of Government Relations

🔥 4 hours ago

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $160k - $330k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Kunin

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2025

🤝 B2B

🔬 Science

🏭 Manufacturing

B2B • Science • Manufacturing

Kunin is America’s only vertically integrated ion-exchange technology company that develops and commercializes hydrometallurgical processes to recover critical and by‑product metals from industrial and mining process streams. The company emphasizes R&D-driven, end-to-end capability — from process development and pilot demonstration to commercial deployment — to re‑establish U. S. capacity for recovering strategic metals (examples in their history include rhenium, gallium, indium, tellurium, selenium, cadmium, uranium, copper, and gold via various ion‑exchange, solvent extraction, and heap‑leach/CIP methods). Kunin positions itself as a domestic, by‑product critical metal company focused on enabling secure supply chains and U. S. industrial independence.

📋 Description

• Institutionalize Kunin Technologies' government relations across federal agencies, Congress, and states • Lead the Department of Defense Office of Strategic Capital relationship and positioning across federal critical-minerals financing programs • Drive special government projects, including Tennessee and Texas state incentive programs • Engage executive branch defense industrial-base offices, strategic materials programs, energy and loan programs, and export-control agencies • Build federal legislative relationships with armed services and appropriations committees, energy and natural resources committees, and the Tennessee delegation • Provide same-day policy intelligence on rulemakings, export controls, and stockpile solicitations • Manage outside lobbyists and government-relations consultants with advocacy compliance • Establish relationships across relevant committees, the Tennessee delegation, and defense, energy, and commerce agencies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree • 6+ years in government affairs touching the defense industrial base, critical minerals, energy, or advanced manufacturing • Ability to read a DFARS rule or an NDAA section and produce a same-day "what it means for us" memo • Experience across the Hill, agency policy shops, or defense-industrial government affairs • Record of moving report language or a provision • Ability to brief a member or senior official on 15 minutes' notice • Ability to write tight one-pagers • Tennessee delegation relationships or state economic development experience is a strong plus • Must be a U.S. citizen • Must travel monthly to Chattanooga, TN and Oak Ridge, TN • Extended hours and weekends frequently required to support critical project milestones

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits • Equity • Remote work arrangement

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