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🧭 Full-Time
💸 112521.38 - 146277.79 USD per year
- Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Public Policy, Business Administration, Management or related discipline AND
- Five (5) years of successful leadership experience in lobbying, political campaigns, legislative affairs, and regulatory policy, including extensive experience identifying and building relationships/working with key policymakers OR
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
- A keen interest/knowledge of policy as it relates to workforce and education technology.
- Strong interpersonal, influencing, negotiation and communication skills (written and verbal) along with considerable tact and diplomacy to effectively address all levels
- Exceptional personal and professional integrity
- Strong people management skills and open leadership style with ability to effectively lead/manage multiple projects
- Actively seeks out, participates in and accepts collaborative thinking and problem solving
- Extremely organized, ability to prioritize, self-directed, process-oriented and hands-on with the ability to dig into the details when necessary
- Strategic thinker able to position the organization for the future, conceptualize critical trends, identify changing market demands and implement tactically
- Creative, innovative and “out-of-the-box” thinking skills; Systems thinker; Understands impacts of decisions on all aspects of the business
- Strong business acumen, intelligence and capacity
- Proactive, high energy, problem solving mentality, data driven with strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Strong work ethic, achievement oriented with a “failure is not an option” mentality
- High level of commitment to team and company values
- Professional appearance and presentation
- Ability to travel domestically 50% or more of the time
- Ability to pass required background check
- Cross-functional support of the company’s portfolio companies and new lines of business impacted by government policies at the state, federal, legislative, administrative and regulatory levels;
- Monitors proposed state and federal legislation and rules to determine possible effects on the company’s portfolio companies and new lines of business;
- Supports strategy and tactics for a diversified team of executive directors for government affairs, lobbyists, consultants and employees from portfolio companies and new lines of business within the company;
- Develops and maintains strategic relationships with legislators and other public officials through participation in local, state and national events and meetings of legislative, administrative, policy organizations and campaigns;
- Identify potential business opportunities in policy changes for the company’s portfolio companies and new lines of business;
- Monitor several projects and track progress while moving them along effectively with a variety of interested parties and outside resources;
- Assists in the preparation of press releases and messaging collateral in order to state the company’s views and to inform policymakers of impacts of proposed legislation considered desirable or undesirable for the company’s portfolio companies and new lines of business;
LeadershipProject ManagementData AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipCommunication SkillsAnalytical SkillsNegotiationInterpersonal skillsRelationship buildingStakeholder managementStrategic thinking
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