Associate Government Affairs Specialist

Dexcom • Remote California, CA

1d • $28 - $47

About The Position

Dexcom is seeking an Associate Government Affairs Specialist to join its Policy team. The role focuses on building policy-content infrastructure that supports company goals, initiatives, and objectives in partnership with the Director of Policy. It collaborates closely with Advocacy and Government Affairs to align policy positions and initiatives, and supports efforts to champion people with diabetes, their caregivers, and the broader diabetes community.

The specialist researches core issues, develops policy materials and company positions, and supports external policy initiatives. The role also administers the internal policy database and infrastructure, including internal dissemination. It contributes to policy pull-through, develops high-level insights and trends on evolving health care policy for department and company leadership, builds subject-matter expertise in the evidence behind policy—including Health Services Research and Health Economics and Outcomes Research—and helps track annual policy priorities and internal team metrics.

The position typically requires a bachelor's degree and 0–2 years of previous experience. Travel is estimated at 0–5%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Typically requires 0–2 years of previous experience.
• Familiarity with and curiosity about issues affecting medical device, pharmaceutical, and health care system businesses.
• Direct experience researching and analyzing public policy in areas related to access and health delivery policy, science and regulatory policy, or fiscal and industrial policy.
• Direct experience conducting analyses and creating presentations and other materials that synthesize pertinent, actionable information for a range of stakeholder audiences.

Nice To Haves

• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field, preferably Public Policy, Public Health, Health Services Research, Health Administration, Political Science, Communications, or Life Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Conduct foundational research on core issues to inform policy materials, company policy positions, and external policy initiatives.
• Administer the internal policy database and infrastructure, including internal dissemination efforts.
• Support policy pull-through and collaborate with Advocacy and Government Affairs colleagues to shape external engagement and champion the needs of people with diabetes, caregivers, and the broader diabetes community.
• Develop insights and identify trends in evolving health care policy for presentations to department and company leadership.
• Develop subject-matter expertise in the evidence behind policy, including Health Services Research and Health Economics and Outcomes Research, with guidance from the Director of Policy.
• Help manage tracking of Annual Policy Priorities and internal metrics and reporting used to measure Policy team goals and objectives.

Benefits

• Full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.
• Opportunity to work with life-changing CGM technology and learn about the Dexcom Warriors community.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level