Senior Policy Officer

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 1 minute ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

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Pathways

1 - 10 employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Construction • Consulting • Manufacturing

Pathways is a human services provider dedicated to supporting youth and adults with developmental disabilities. Based in the Twin Cities, Pathways to Community offers a range of person-centered services that promote growth, relationships, and opportunities for success. Through their guiding values, they strive to make a difference in the lives of the individuals they serve every day, providing essential support and assistance in residential, respite, and one-to-one service settings.

📋 Description

• Support the CEO and Executive Chair in their daily work and high-profile public and private engagements • Project manage multiple high-level strategic mandates in the executive office • Support the CEO’s and Executive Chair’s time management and deliverables • Prepare, execute, and follow up on key meetings of senior executives and the Board • Coordinate strategic initiatives end-to-end, tracking timelines, dependencies, and deliverables • Coordinate engagements with government, private-sector, NGO, and other key partners • Support fundraising and development strategy engagements • Manage high-level stakeholders with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment • Coordinate organizational communication on social media channels • Prepare policy and briefing documents for the CEO and Executive Chair • Draft and edit confidential background documents, correspondence, and emails • Develop meeting strategies, prepare agendas, schedule and organize meetings, and record and distribute minutes • Communicate with meeting and event participants professionally and promptly • Support organizational development, including integrating AI into Pathways International’s work and streamlining project management processes

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field such as public policy, public affairs, political science, or international development, or equivalent professional experience in diplomatic, private sector, political, or chief of staff roles • At least eight years of relevant work experience in a fast-paced work environment • Preference for direct work with executive offices or similar functions • Proven understanding of one or more relevant fields, including forced displacement, refugee protection, global migration, geopolitics, and diplomacy • Strong organizational skills and experience project managing executive office projects, meetings, event deliverables, and deadlines • Strong policy capability, including researching, analyzing, and drafting high-quality briefings and materials for senior stakeholders • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English • Proficiency in other languages, particularly Spanish and Italian, is an asset • Editorial or copyediting experience is an asset • Excellent interpersonal skills and experience collaborating across backgrounds, countries, cultures, and languages • Ability to work on a varied and constantly evolving portfolio with professionalism, discretion, tact, and responsibility • Strong understanding of confidentiality and need-to-know principles; direct experience handling similar sensitive functions is ideal • Strong comfort level using AI tools for correspondence and project management • Comfortable preparing well-presented PowerPoint and Word documents and using Excel, Zoom, MS Teams, and SharePoint • Legal right to work in the country of residence • Availability for flexible working hours, including meetings in CET and ET • Application materials must be submitted in English: cover letter, CV, and an unedited writing sample of no more than five pages

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time remote work within the Eastern Time (ET) to Central European Time (CET) range • One-year term contract, renewable • Equal opportunity employer • Accommodation upon request during the recruitment, selection, and assessment process

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