Director, Legislative Affairs

Ryan Companies US, Inc.

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Legislative Affairs Director assists the Principal and the Advocacy Services Practice with directing, implementing, managing, coordinating, overseeing, and supervising multistate legislative efforts of the Firm, or the Firm’s clients as needed. This includes, without limitation, drafting, reviewing, and tracking proposed state legislation that we support and oppose. They are the lead with internal subject matter experts developing the Firm’s state legislative agendas and working through hearings, testimony, amendments, and all other legislative functions. The Director coordinates with external lobbyists, third party groups and other policy influencers and may be required to register as a lobbyist and give testimony. The Legislative Affairs Director also assists the Practice Leader with drafting, reviewing, and implementing policies and procedures pertaining to the Advocacy Services Practice. They will lead communications both internally and externally as needed.

Requirements

Juris Doctor Degree (“JD”) from an accredited law school and at least seven years related experience in a similar environment.
Understanding of State and Local Tax policies and statutes.
Experience in tax policy, communications and government affairs.
Property tax policy experience is required.
Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft® Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.
Valid driver’s license required.
License to practice law within the United States required.
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Ryan LLC (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Nice To Haves

Multi-state property tax experience is strongly preferred.
Membership to the American Bar Association preferred.
May be required to register as a lobbyist.

Responsibilities

Leads development of legislative agendas for assigned states.
Coordinates with subject matter experts from Practices on content, amendments, and passage of legislation.
Coordinates testimony and may be called upon to testify.
Leads coordination with external groups and lobbyists in support of legislative efforts.
Provides legislative expertise to other departments where needed and may be asked to give written, PowerPoint and formal public presentations.
Supports Principals with political insights and tracking and policy campaign management.
Assists with and manages client-related state legislative efforts.
Develops client workplans and schedules associated project deliverables.
Prepares and conducts client presentations.
Reviews and reconciles client data and identifies tax issues to research.
Responds to client inquiries and requests from state agencies.
Researches and provides legislative insights, threats, opportunities and trends.
Plans and directs various aspects of the Firm’s Legislative Affairs Practice.
Supports coordination of the Firm’s multistate legislative agenda.
Assists in managing the Firm’s relationship with its outside counsel and lobby groups.
Tracks and monitors tax legislation in various states.
Drafts and reviews proposed state tax legislation including amendments.
Interprets laws, rulings, and regulations for the Firm.
Prepares and reviews state lobby reports as needed.
Maintains comprehensive database of public policy initiatives and facilitates status update meetings.
Performs research and advises on state tax legislative matters.
Writes communications documents some of which are: white papers, testimony, update documents (internal and external), persuasive one pagers, and more.
Manages complex state and local tax projects.
Negotiates tax resolutions with state agencies.
Negotiates tax issues, ideas and policies with elected officials, agencies, thought leaders and their staff members.
Assists with other projects as needed.