Government Affairs & Communications Coordinator

St Johns Community Health•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

The Government Affairs & Communications Coordinator supports St. John’s Community Health’s government affairs, advocacy, community engagement, and communications work. The position helps translate policy and advocacy priorities into clear messages, materials, and public communications, and supports elected-official engagement, policy research, advocacy campaigns, civic engagement, media work, and special projects. The role calls for a strong writer who is organized, comfortable working with elected officials and community partners, and able to manage multiple projects while taking initiative and following organizational processes, messaging, approvals, and expectations. The coordinator tracks policy issues and researches legislation, government actions, funding opportunities, and policy proposals; prepares briefing and meeting materials; and supports meetings and follow-up with officials, agencies, stakeholders, and partners. The role also drafts communications, supports media outreach and events, helps explain policy issues to different audiences, and contributes to advocacy, voter education, community organizing, and civic-engagement efforts consistent with the organization’s nonprofit status. The position coordinates assigned projects from start to finish, maintains timelines and related materials, works with departments across St. John’s, and supports special projects. The employee is expected to support team and organizational initiatives, meet goals, communicate proactively with supervision, embrace process improvement, and uphold the organization’s mission, vision, and values. Work takes place in a normal office environment and may also occur at community centers and other locations for meetings and outreach activities.

Requirements

Strong writing, editing, research, and communication skills.
Experience in government affairs, public affairs, communications, advocacy, community engagement, political work, or a related field.
Ability to understand policy issues and explain them in clear language.
Strong organization and project-management skills.
Ability to work with elected officials, community partners, media, staff, and senior leadership.
Comfort taking initiative and working independently while following organizational processes and approvals.
Ability to perform the listed essential functions, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
Regularly sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
Occasionally stand, walk, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Required vision abilities include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

Experience with civic engagement, organizing, campaigns, or community-based work.
Knowledge of Los Angeles government, politics, health care, or community organizations.

Responsibilities

Track local, county, state, and federal policy issues that may affect St. John’s, its patients, and community health centers.
Research legislation, government actions, funding opportunities, and policy proposals.
Prepare briefing memos, talking points, background materials, public comments, and meeting materials for the Chief Government Affairs & Community Relations Officer and other St. John’s leaders.
Support meetings with elected officials, government agencies, and key stakeholders, and track follow-up items, commitments, deadlines, and next steps.
Support advocacy campaigns related to health care access, the safety net, health equity, and the right to health care.
Help develop clear messages explaining St. John’s policy, advocacy, and community work.
Draft newsletters, talking points, stakeholder updates, event materials, social media content, press materials, and other communications.
Support media outreach, press events, interviews, and public statements.
Translate complicated policy issues into language that patients, community members, elected officials, and the public can understand.
Support communications for advocacy campaigns, public events, and organizational priorities.
Support patient and community organizing, civic engagement, voter education, advocacy events, and community meetings.
Help develop materials for advocacy trainings, Right to Health committees, and other civic-engagement efforts.
Support efforts to move patients and community members from participation into deeper advocacy and leadership.
Assist with voter education and nonpartisan civic-engagement activities consistent with St. John’s nonprofit status.
Support relationships with community organizations, elected officials, government staff, coalitions, and other partners.
Help coordinate meetings, events, roundtables, briefings, and community activities.
Prepare background materials and follow-up communications for external partners.
Support coalition participation and partnership-building tied to St. John’s policy and community priorities.
Manage assigned government affairs and communications projects from start to finish.
Maintain timelines, work plans, contact lists, briefing materials, and follow-up items.
Coordinate with departments across St. John’s to collect information and complete materials.
Support special projects assigned by the Chief Government Affairs & Community Relations Officer.
Help ensure materials are accurate, approved, and completed on time.
Support team and departmental initiatives, communicate proactively with supervision, meet assigned goals and objectives, and participate in process-improvement initiatives.
Support St. John’s mission, vision, and values; model positive interactions with patients, staff, and community; and stay informed about internal policies and procedures and relevant external legal or political matters.
Perform additional duties as assigned.