Regional Community Advocacy Director, Atlanta

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Regional Community Advocacy Director.

 

The Regional Community Advocacy Director is responsible for coordinating and supervising strategy and efforts to foster the public policy priorities of the American Heart Association in the assigned communities. Responsible for serving as the primary representative of the American Heart Association to community level public officials and relevant community public agencies to generate awareness and support for the American Heart Association’s public policy agenda. Responsible for building and managing teams of American Heart Association staff, volunteers, coalitions and partner organizations to build support for and integrate advocacy issues messaging into all other American Heart Association programs/events.

 

 

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Responsibilities

• Strategically coordinates and supervises all elements of successful public policy priority campaigns at the assigned market levels.
• Meets one on one with elected community officials, their staff, and other community government officials to gain support for the American Heart Association’s advocacy issues.
• Monitors and engages on legislative and regulatory issues of concern to the Association’s and apprises appropriate Association volunteers and staff of emerging advocacy issues.
• Provides policy research, development of support materials, recruiting of spokespersons, preparing testimony, and other activities as needed to advance the Association’s community public policy agenda.
• Participates in coalition efforts and other collaborative partnerships to leverage opportunities that advance the Association’s public policy priorities.
• Recruits membership for and provides staff support to a volunteer community advocacy committee.  In collaboration with the committee, and with strategic direction from the Association’s advocacy program, develops a community legislative agenda.
• Provides strategic direction on community grassroots and key contact, recruitment, retention and mobilization efforts.
• Collaborates with communications staff partners on development and timing of media advocacy efforts.
• Assurances compliance with lobbying requirements and prepares all necessary reporting.
• Provides advocacy presentations and training opportunities to volunteers and staff as needed.
• Attends and participates in relevant American Heart Association meetings throughout the year.
• Travel 25% 

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Qualifications

• Three (3) years of experience and success in legislative and regulatory lobbying
• Three (3) years of demonstrated experience building and managing issue advocacy coalition(s)
• Three (3) years of experience developing and implementing grassroots and media advocacy tactics
• Outstanding oral and written communications skills
• Policy analysis and technical (legislative and regulatory) writing skills
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple, sophisticated projects in varying stages of development under time constraints
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of strategic planning, budgeting, and managing work

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years of experience working in health care policy
• Three (3) years of experience in volunteer management
• Knowledge of voluntary health organizations or nonprofit organizations
• Demonstrated understanding and appreciation for the use of technology and information systems

Compensation & Benefits

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