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Senior Director of Policy
The States ProjectUKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Dec 2024
💰 $173,138/yr($164,025/yr – $173,138/yr)
About the role
Who We Are:
The States Project (TSP) connects the importance of state legislatures to every aspect of our lives and brings together communities to help build a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous future for all.
Our electoral work focuses on winning governing majorities in the states by making state legislative campaigns more effective and better funded. Our policy work provides nonpartisan tools and resources that connect a diverse community of state lawmakers committed to improving lives for the people they serve. We do it because we believe that state legislatures are the strongest force for change in this country.
We encourage you to find out more about our values here.
Senior Director of Policy, The States Project
LOCATION: National. 100% Remote, with 20-25% of expected travel for in-person team meetings and events. DEADLINE TO APPLY: January 15, 2025.
Position Details:This is a full-time, exempt at-will position. The team currently operates remotely, with occasional in-person team retreats, etc. Some travel will be required. Additional evening and weekend hours are occasionally required to fulfill the duties of this position.
TSP is committed to the safety of our employees and has a communicable disease policy in place. If you have any questions about our safety protocols, please contact us.
The Opportunity:
The Senior Director of Policy at TSP will lead a small team working to identify, assess, and develop strategic, innovative, and impactful state level policy ideas to advance America’s Goals and achieve the American Promise. The SD will lead efforts to significantly expand TSP’s policy work including building a library of hundreds of the most popular, responsive, and impactful state level model policy ideas and identifying promising solutions to the most pressing issues state lawmakers are facing. Building on a strong foundation, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of leading the next phase of TSP’s policy work. The SD will oversee processes to identify, assess, and develop policies for TSP’s model policy library and to ensure policy resources are sufficient to meet internal and external needs and help achieve America’s Goals in principles-aligned ways. SD will also help establish, oversee, and provide ongoing improvement to assessment processes. Such work will include managing additional staff or consultants that the SD may also be involved in hiring.
We value diversity at TSP. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer people, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply. This position will report to the Vice President of Lawmaker Engagement.
The States Project (TSP) connects the importance of state legislatures to every aspect of our lives and brings together communities to help build a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous future for all.
Our electoral work focuses on winning governing majorities in the states by making state legislative campaigns more effective and better funded. Our policy work provides nonpartisan tools and resources that connect a diverse community of state lawmakers committed to improving lives for the people they serve. We do it because we believe that state legislatures are the strongest force for change in this country.
We encourage you to find out more about our values here.
Senior Director of Policy, The States Project
LOCATION: National. 100% Remote, with 20-25% of expected travel for in-person team meetings and events. DEADLINE TO APPLY: January 15, 2025.
Position Details:This is a full-time, exempt at-will position. The team currently operates remotely, with occasional in-person team retreats, etc. Some travel will be required. Additional evening and weekend hours are occasionally required to fulfill the duties of this position.
TSP is committed to the safety of our employees and has a communicable disease policy in place. If you have any questions about our safety protocols, please contact us.
The Opportunity:
The Senior Director of Policy at TSP will lead a small team working to identify, assess, and develop strategic, innovative, and impactful state level policy ideas to advance America’s Goals and achieve the American Promise. The SD will lead efforts to significantly expand TSP’s policy work including building a library of hundreds of the most popular, responsive, and impactful state level model policy ideas and identifying promising solutions to the most pressing issues state lawmakers are facing. Building on a strong foundation, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of leading the next phase of TSP’s policy work. The SD will oversee processes to identify, assess, and develop policies for TSP’s model policy library and to ensure policy resources are sufficient to meet internal and external needs and help achieve America’s Goals in principles-aligned ways. SD will also help establish, oversee, and provide ongoing improvement to assessment processes. Such work will include managing additional staff or consultants that the SD may also be involved in hiring.
We value diversity at TSP. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer people, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply. This position will report to the Vice President of Lawmaker Engagement.
What You Will Do
- Principal activities will include but not be limited to:
- Develop and oversee processes to identify and evaluate state-level policy ideas most likely to advance America’s Goals, including building out strategies to generate innovative ideas from diverse sources (including but not limited to lawmakers, experts, academics, practitioners, advocates, other countries, federal opportunities, think tanks, TSP staff, press/media coverage, existing state legislation, etc.).
- In collaboration with VP of Lawmaker Engagement, oversee external stakeholder tracking for policy partners, and manage a set of key partner relationships. Evaluate and prioritize new policy ideas and translate them into model policies and lawmaker resources that advance America’s Goals and align with TSP’s principles.
- Analyze and assess policy ideas from a communications risk lens, focusing on how policies may be perceived and what impact they may have in differing state legislative landscapes.
- Identify opportunities to expand the effectiveness, innovation, and reach of potential model policies and lawmaker resources, including through media scanning and engaging with external partner programming.
- Identify and contribute to strategic opportunities to disseminate policy work to key stakeholders, including presenting to supporters and external partners as needed.
- Contribute to all Lawmaker Engagement products, programming, and resources that feature TSP policies (TSP agenda, seminars, briefings, task forces, fellowship, etc.).
- In collaboration with internal teams, ensure that TSP’s work is responsive to the needs of lawmakers in priority states as well as responsive to changes in the national political environment (including changes in federal landscape, shif
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