Director of External Affairs

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 11 hours ago

⛰️ Colorado, Utah, +1 more states – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $120k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

👻 Ghost score 0%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Set Up Email Alert For New Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

DISA Technologies, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

🔬 Science

B2B • Hardware • Science

DISA Technologies, Inc. is a technology company commercializing DISA Tech™, a patented High-Pressure Slurry Ablation (HPSA) mineral-liberation platform. The company’s system uses high-velocity slurry collisions to selectively liberate valuable minerals from ore and legacy waste, reducing energy intensity, minimizing fines and slimes, and improving downstream concentration (flotation, leaching) compared with traditional grinding. DISA positions its modular, deployable hardware as an alternative to energy-intensive comminution infrastructure, targeting higher recovery from active ore bodies, stockpiles, tailings, and legacy uranium sites while enabling onsite remediation and resource recovery. The offering is aimed at mining and resource operators seeking to modernize processing circuits and unlock stranded domestic supply.

📋 Description

• Manage day-to-day federal legislative and regulatory engagement across DOE, DOI/BLM, EPA, USDA/USFS, DoW, NRC, and Congress. • Oversee contractors tracking legislation, rulemakings, comment deadlines, hearing calendars, and funding opportunities; translate findings into prioritized action plans. • Build and expand state government affairs presence in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wyoming. • Manage contract lobbyists and consultants, scopes of work, budgets, and deliverables. • Draft and oversee comment letters, position papers, legislative and regulatory analyses, briefing memoranda, one-pagers, and leave-behinds. • Prepare executives for Hill meetings, agency engagements, congressional testimony, and conferences. • Maintain the master engagement record and follow up on commitments. • Execute Navajo Nation engagement strategy, including chapter meetings, public open houses, and community education. • Ensure Tribal-facing communications follow company commitments and consultation protocols. • Build relationships with county commissions, elected officials, civic organizations, economic development groups, and community leaders. • Anticipate community concerns and develop evidence-based responses. • Draft and edit press releases, opinion pieces, executive statements, talking points, and speeches. • Direct website content, social media, stakeholder communications, and marketing collateral. • Maintain brand standards and message discipline. • Support crisis and issues communications with rapid-response materials and holding statements. • Supervise the Grants and External Affairs Manager and own the funding pipeline from identification through post-award compliance and reporting. • Maintain the proposal calendar and coordinate technical, financial, and legal contributors. • Manage relationships with program officers and agency contacts. • Supervise, mentor, and develop staff; manage outside vendors, agencies, and consultants. • Build systems including trackers, calendars, workflows, approval processes, and organized files. • Coordinate with operations, regulatory affairs, legal, and finance to align external commitments with internal reality.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required. • Approximately ten years of progressively responsible experience in government affairs, public affairs, communications, or a combination, including substantive time in both a government affairs and a public affairs or communications capacity. • Direct experience in a political, legislative, regulatory, or advocacy environment — Capitol Hill, a federal or state agency, a statehouse, a campaign, a trade association, or a corporate or firm-side government affairs practice. • Exceptional writing and editing skills, including experience preparing materials for senior executives and external audiences under deadline. • Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability to carry dozens of concurrent workstreams without letting any of them slip. • A self-starter who operates with minimal direction, exercises sound independent judgment, and is comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change. • Experience managing people, consultants, or both. • Discretion and sound instincts with sensitive information, and the credibility to represent the company without supervision. • Background in energy, mining, critical minerals, nuclear, or environmental remediation preferred. • Experience working with Tribal governments, particularly the Navajo Nation, preferred. • State-level government affairs experience in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, or Wyoming preferred. • Familiarity with federal grants, cooperative agreements, and compliance requirements preferred. • Experience in a startup or high-growth company where the function was still being built preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401k Matching up to 4% • Excellent Healthcare Benefits • Work Schedule: M-T (7:30am - 5:30pm) and Fri (7:30am to 11:30am) • Competitive benefits package • Direct exposure to executive leadership, the board, senior Administration officials, Congress, and Tribal leadership • The autonomy to build a function and the resources to do it well • A mission-driven, fast-moving culture that rewards initiative, integrity, and follow-through