Senior Manager, State Impact
Children's Funding Project
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $90,000 - $97,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Strengthen relationships with state advocacy partners and expand technical assistance offered to them.
- Work with state partners to understand and use strategic public financing tools to advance advocacy goals.
- Provide strategic coaching to partners on campaign planning and coalition-building.
- Support and facilitate coordination among partners within the state’s child and youth policy and tax ecosystems.
- Assess state partners’ readiness for advocacy work and advise on capacity-building strategies.
- Draft template legislation on topics related to codification of fiscal maps or cost models, funding allocation, and revenue generation.
- Manage grants and conduct legislative tracking and analysis.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5-7 years of progressively responsible, relevant experience in state advocacy and/or policy work.
- Applied experience in child, youth, or family-focused policy development, education, or public finance preferred.
- Experience coaching, informing, or providing technical assistance to state entities and community-based organizations.
- Experience supporting decision makers to make evidence informed policy decisions is a plus.
- Experience assessing advocacy readiness, developing campaign action plans, and supporting coalition coordination in state-level policy contexts.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to translate data-related concepts and solutions to professionals.
- Experience working collaboratively and communicating across internal teams and with a variety of external audiences.
- Deep commitment to the values of justice, equity, diversity, and belonging.
- Comfortable with unfamiliar tasks and flexible in problem-solving, learning new skills, and embracing change.
- Efficient and high-quality research and writing skills.
- Attention to detail and anticipation of organizational needs.
- Familiarity and comfort with common technology platforms (e.g., Microsoft Office 365, Google Suite).
Benefits
- Generous benefits package
- Professional development and growth opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
policy developmentadvocacy readiness assessmentcampaign planningcoalition-buildinglegislative trackinggrant managementfiscal mappingcost modelingfunding allocationrevenue generation
Soft skills
strong communicationcollaborative workproblem-solvingflexibilityresearch skillswriting skillsattention to detailorganizational anticipationcoachingcapacity-building