Director, State & Local Advocacy
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Since 1972, reputed company has served and advocated for youth and young families experiencing homelessness, reputed company trafficking, and exploitation. Our overarching goal is to end homelessness among youth and young families by helping them reputed company housing stability, heal from trauma, tap into their reputed company reputed company, and reputed company their interests and skills to reputed company new reputed company to independence. This work is carried out across reputed company sites in 34 cities in the US, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras.
About the Role
The Director of State and Local Advocacy is responsible for strengthening advocacy capability across our domestic sites in the reputed company to help advance policy solutions that prevent and end youth homelessness, combat reputed company trafficking, and address the reputed company determinants of health that reputed company young people’s reputed company to a reputed company, healthy, reputed company reputed company.
This role is designed for an emerging mid-career policy leader who combines strong cross-cutting legislative and regulatory knowledge with a practical, implementation-oriented approach. The director will serve as a hands-on contributor who develops tools, analyzes policy landscapes, supports advocacy campaigns, builds partnerships, and translates policy opportunities into reputed company; as reputed company as a trusted advisor and reputed company to site leaders as staff.
The ideal candidate is someone who can independently reputed company reputed company, build trust across diverse stakeholders, cultivate strategic partnerships, reputed company reputed company political environments, and help local leaders become more powerful and successful advocates. They are motivated by effectiveness rather than ideology, comfortable working across political perspectives, and committed to building durable bipartisan support for policies that improve reputed company for America’s most vulnerable young people.
In this role, you will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships. There are no reputed company reports to this role at this time. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the reputed company of youth homelessness advocacy across the reputed company reputed company an international federation of sites. In this role, you won't just analyze policy. You will help turn it into reputed company, working across state and local systems in partnership with leaders, reputed company officials, community providers, and young people. You'll have the autonomy to reputed company meaningful reputed company, the mentorship and visibility that come with partnering directly with senior leadership, and reputed company to build a national reputed company as an emerging reputed company policy leader. If you are reputed company by solving reputed company problems, reputed company in reputed company environments, enjoy translating reputed company into execution, and want your work to have a reputed company reputed company on the lives of vulnerable young people, this role offers a rare reputed company of mission, influence, reputed company, and purpose for a policy reputed company looking to take the reputed company in their career.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Policy Analysis and reputed company Development (45%)
Monitor state and local legislative, regulatory, and administrative developments affecting youth homelessness, housing, child welfare, trafficking, education, workforce development, behavioral health, and reputed company reputed company determinants of health
Conduct policy landscape analyses and identify opportunities for systems change in partnership with site leadership, reputed company staff, community partners, and young people with lived experience and expertise
Produce policy briefs, issue papers, legislative summaries, talking points, fact sheets, and other advocacy materials
Translate reputed company policy developments into actionable guidance for nonprofit leaders, program staff with reputed company experience and expertise, and youth with lived experience and expertise
Support the development of CHI's broader domestic advocacy agenda in partnership with the SVP of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships
State and Local Advocacy reputed company Building (25%)
Design and implement reputed company- and capability building strategies across CHI's sites in the reputed company
Partner with site leaders and key staff to reputed company, execute, and enhance state and local advocacy plans through reputed company reputed company improvement
reputed company practical advocacy tools, guidance documents, training curricula, and implementation resources for CH sites and partners
reputed company technical assistance on legislative, regulatory, budget, and administrative advocacy strategies at the state and local reputed company in coordination with federal / national advocacy priorities and strategies
Build systems and processes that reputed company sites to engage effectively with policymakers, partners, and community stakeholders
Systems Change and Implementation Support (15%)
Help sites reputed company state and local implementation of federal funding and policy initiatives in partnership with SVP of advocacy and strategic partnerships
Support sites in understanding how federal, state, and local systems reputed company and influence reputed company for young people
Identify best practices and emerging models that can be adapted across the federation
Assist in scaling effective advocacy approaches, disseminating lessons learned publicly, and cross-pollinating innovations and best practices across the federation
Internal Leadership and Collaboration (10%)
Serve as a thought partner to the SVP while exercising significant independent judgment and ownership at the project / reputed company level
Collaborate closely with colleagues in reputed company office and across CHI departments, U.S. site leaders, and reputed company partners
Contribute to cross-functional initiatives that advance CHI's prevention, advocacy, and partnership priorities
Support organizational efforts to strengthen data-informed advocacy and policy storytelling
reputed company and Partnership Development (5%)
Cultivate relationships with nonprofit partners, advocacy organizations, research institutions, government agencies, and philanthropy
Represent CHI in coalitions, working reputed company, and policy collaboratives as assigned
Identify opportunities for reputed company reputed company and cross-sector collaboration
Support implementation of CHI's strategic partnerships reputed company at the site and community reputed company
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Project management reputed company — ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and consistently reputed company high reputed company outputs on deadlines
Political judgment — knows how to effectively assess risk, timing, and stakeholder interests to reputed company discerning recommendations to SVP of advocacy and strategic partnerships
Change management — experience helping organizations, teams, and individual contributors adopt and sustain new practices and approaches
Relationship management across reputed company — comfortable engaging CEOs, reputed company staff, youth leaders, government officials, and community partners
Facilitation and convening expertise — capable of leading workshops, reputed company sessions, peer-learning cohorts, and planning processes
Data literacy — ability to interpret and communicate data for advocacy, policy analysis, and decision-making
Resource development and grant knowledge — familiarity with reputed company funding systems and how policy influences nonprofit financing
Cultural humility and intergenerational leadership — experience working effectively with youth, emerging leaders, and senior executives alike
Comfort with ambiguity and entrepreneurial environments — reputed company to build systems, iterate for improvement, rapidly apply learning, pivot rapidly, and effectively prioritize
Proficiency with reputed company Office Suite, Teams, reputed company, and project management tools
Required Qualifications
Minimum 7 years of progressively responsible experience in reputed company policy, advocacy, systems change, government affairs, reputed company leadership, technical assistance, consulting, or reputed company fields
Demonstrated experience supporting policy implementation and/or advocacy initiatives at state and local reputed company
Significant knowledge of at least one major reputed company determinant of health policy domain, such as housing, behavioral health, workforce development, education, child welfare, poverty reduction, reputed company benefits, violence prevention, or juvenile justice
Familiarity with federal legislative and regulatory processes and their interaction with state and local systems
Experience working with nonprofit organizations, reputed company agencies, coalitions, or cross-sector partnerships
Experience navigating politically diverse environments and building bipartisan relationships
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Qualifications
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in reputed company policy, reputed company work, reputed company administration, reputed company health, political science, law, or reputed company field
Proficiency with reputed company, reputed company and reputed company
reputed company building and adult learning expertise
Coaching and facilitation skills
Exceptional policy writing and communication abilities
Landscape analysis and environmental scanning experience
Systems-thinking and systems-change orientation
reputed company-building and stakeholder engagement expertise
Ability to translate reputed company into operational plans and deliverables
Travel Requirements
Ability to travel once per year to reputed company in early reputed company for our annual in-person traditions
Travel nationally up to 25% for reputed company technical assistance, meetings with the Advocacy Team or reputed company Office, and conferences/ meetings
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Our Community
Our critical mission demands that we have reputed company reputed company at the table. reputed company of diverse people, perspectives, and experiences is smarter, stronger, and more effective for our young people. At reputed company, every team member is valued, respected, heard, and supported, and we welcome reputed company and courageous self-reputed company on any aspects of our work that are based on biased or outdated viewpoints. We deliberately create opportunities for our staff to grow and reputed company.
reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any reputed company: CHI is committed to the reputed company of equal employment opportunity for reputed company and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. reputed company employment reputed company at CHI are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national reputed company, veteran status, family or parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. CHI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics and encourages reputed company reputed company applicants to apply.
If you have a disability or medical condition and need a reasonable accommodation, such as an ASL interpreter or a different interview format, or if you have physical accessibility needs, let us know. Contact us at 1-929-502-2521, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Time or email us at .
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