Advocacy & Legislative Directory
- Washington DC
- $105,000-130,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Developing and driving legislative and advocacy strategies and tactics to advance our policy priorities in collaboration with our policy, campaigns, and communications staff
- Working with our coalition partners to collaborate in advocacy and legislative strategy development and implementation, and providing leadership and guidance in advancing our plans
- Enhancing and maintaining systems for communicating with Congressional offices and other decision makers and ensuring AFR policy and research work is visible to key decision makers.
- Building strong relationships with policy makers and representing AFR at meetings with lawmakers and regulators, and with allies and partners
- Explaining and defending our policy positions for a variety of audiences
- Creating and helping to shape the creation of messages and materials to explain financial policy issues
- Identifying opportunities created by new developments and emerging debates in the broader policy arena to promote AFREF policy objectives
- Supporting AFREF policy staff in developing and deepening their relationships with policymakers
- A strong commitment to economic and racial justice
- Experience moving legislative campaigns, and interacting with legislative staff
- An ability to drive results and to collaborate effectively with colleagues, allies and decision makers;
- Knowledge of financial policy and ability to master new policy areas swiftly
- Excellent strategic judgment
- Good advocacy writing skills, including at translating complicated policy issues into laypersons language
- Excellent relationship building and verbal communication skills
- An ability to connect with many different constituency groups and experience working with racially diverse communities
- Be very well organized, skilled at working on multiple complex projects simultaneously, and at sharing information effectively