Remote Government Relations Manager – Conservation Policy

CVSC; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 55.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health Insurance

Flex Spending Account

Short-term Disability

Dental

Vision

SIMPLE IRA retirement plan

Cell Phone Stipend

Remote Work Setup Stipend

Professional Development Budget

14 holidays

PTO (17 days)

Paid parental leave

Sabbatical

Zusammenfassung

CVSC in South Carolina seeks a Government Relations Manager to advance conservation policy at the local level. You will build relationships with city and county officials, staff, partners, and stakeholders and track local ordinances.

You will work with CVSC’s Government Relations Director and policy experts to implement strategies, track progress, and report outcomes, while traveling within the state as needed.

Qualifikationen

• 2+ years professional experience with advocacy campaigns, including outreach, campaign planning, lobbying, and coalition-building.
• Experience with grassroots and grasstop advocacy and how these efforts can amplify and support local government engagement efforts.
• Ability to professionally represent CVSC in written and oral communications.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adjust strategies and workplans in real time.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, negotiating, and public speaking skills. An ability to communicate complex information in a clear and concise manner in person, over video conferencing, and over the telephone.
• Strong attention to detail, fast and willing learner, strong organizational skills and ability to follow up and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work well within a team and with individuals, both internal and external, from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about difference, and the ability to learn and build on varying cultural and community norms. Shares our commitment to increasing racial justice and equity in our movement and organization, integrating these principles into all of the work we do and ensuring an inclusive organizational culture.
• A personal approach to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice that values the individual and respects differences of race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, ability and socio-economic circumstance.

Aufgaben

• Build and maintain a diverse set of positive working relationships local elected officials and staff, conservation partners, community leaders, state agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Work with policy staff and partners to identify conservation and environmental policies that help to tackle systemic environmental, racial, and economic inequities.
• Collaborate with coalition partners to identify campaign needs and develop strategy.
• Track, monitor, and analyze local ordinances and policies, attend hearings, council meetings, and other public engagement events.
• Identify and leverage opportunities between local and state elected officials to advance conservation policy.
• Track and report on activities and metrics, capture success stories for grant reporting and funding proposals.
• Represent CVSC within state and local government and in public settings and model behavior and expectations that support a cohesive, inclusive, impactful team culture
• Performs other duties as needed in accordance with the successful operation of a non-profit organization.

Kenntnisse

Advocacy campaigns

Grassroots & grasstop

Written & oral communication

Public speaking

Problem solving

Collaboration

Diversity, equity, inclusion

Jobbeschreibung

CVSC in South Carolina seeks a Government Relations Manager to advance conservation policy at the local level. You will build relationships with city and county officials, staff, partners, and stakeholders and track local ordinances.

You will work with CVSC’s Government Relations Director and policy experts to implement strategies, track progress, and report outcomes, while traveling within the state as needed.