Remote Senior Policy Lead — Elections & Audits

National Conference of State Legislatures; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 82,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office reimbursement

Wellness reimbursement

Flexible PTO

3 months paid parental leave

403(b) retirement plan with employer 3

Job summary

Verified Voting is seeking a Senior Policy Associate to join its programs team in a fully remote capacity across the United States. The role focuses on advancing policies related to risk-limiting audits, ballot accounting, and voting rights, with opportunities to engage with state legislatures and election officials.

The SPA will lead policy work, develop resources, and collaborate across departments, with occasional travel to priority states.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to articulate key policy, procedural, and technical concepts to various non-technical audiences, orally and in writing.
• Ability to analyze, summarize, and draft concrete legislative or regulatory proposals, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to build trusting and productive relationships with partners across the political spectrum.
• Experience working with state legislatures, government, or the public sector.
• Experience with either election policy or election administration.
• Knowledge of election technology and/or voting rights issues.
• Strong outreach skills and initiative.
• Ability and motivation to learn about complex policy issues and election procedures.
• Ability to function and collaborate effectively in a remote work environment.
• Experience with legislative and/or executive lobbying on state- and local levels.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to policy formation and articulation related to Verified Voting’s work.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders and monitor relevant developments in selected priority states.
• Provide expertise for policy improvements in meetings, statements, and analysis, including, on occasion, in written and oral testimony to state legislatures.
• When appropriate, partner with election officials on implementation of risk-limiting audits and other best practices.
• Contribute to the development of new resources and support existing VV resources, such as the Verifier and other tools.
• Work and collaborate in a remote team environment, sharing information and responsibilities with state leads and other colleagues.
• Occasionally represent Verified Voting at conferences, virtually or in person.
• Travel to priority states, potentially several weeks in some months, though this is unusual.

Skills

Policy analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Legislative drafting

Nontechnical communication

State legislatures experience

Election policy

Election technology knowledge

Outreach

Remote collaboration

Lobbying experience

Job description

Verified Voting is seeking a Senior Policy Associate to join its programs team in a fully remote capacity across the United States. The role focuses on advancing policies related to risk-limiting audits, ballot accounting, and voting rights, with opportunities to engage with state legislatures and election officials.

The SPA will lead policy work, develop resources, and collaborate across departments, with occasional travel to priority states.