Senior Officer, State Policy, Safer Chemicals Project (State Campaign/Advocacy Strategist)

The Pew Charitable Trusts • Washington, DC

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

Pew’s Safer Chemicals Project aims to measurably reduce Americans’ exposure to harmful endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). The project focuses on reducing exposure to the most harmful EDCs in use in the near-term, while laying the foundation for longer-term policy reform to prevent additional harmful EDCs from being introduced. The Safer Chemicals Project is a collaboration between Pew’s Environment and Government Performance portfolios. The Environment Portfolio focuses on science-based, nonpartisan, and sustainable solutions to help protect the planet and people. We work in partnership with governments, Indigenous rights holders, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, local stakeholders, scientists, and other researchers to advance public policy so that nature and communities can thrive. The Government Performance portfolio provides the nonpartisan research, solutions, and momentum decisionmakers need to ensure our institutions improve the health of people in the United States and enable them to successfully climb the economic ladder. Those goals are pursued through a wide range of the portfolio’s policy-focused projects (with explorations into new areas underway)—from ensuring states’ finances are prepared for future volatility, to unlocking gateways to mental health care, to addressing the nation’s lack of attainable housing. The Senior Officer, State Policy, Safer Chemicals Project, helps to advance the project’s efforts to reduce Americans’ exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals through state action, such as the adoption and effective implementation of state policies. Reporting to the Senior Manager, the Senior Officer helps to design and execute strategies to advance the project’s goals, including influencing state rules and requirements around endocrine disrupting chemicals and enabling state and local agencies to more effectively use research to protect public health and improve state health outcomes. The senior officer represents the project to key decision-makers and partner groups, identifies and develops new partnerships and coalitions, and leads policy, stakeholder and work related to advancing state policy adoption. Located in Pew’s Washington D.C. office, this position participates in Pew’s hybrid work program with core days in the office and the flexibility to telework the remaining days. Staff also enjoy four telework “flex weeks” per year.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Generally, a minimum of ten years of applicable experience.
• Knowledge and experience in working with state policy, preferably in environmental health, toxics, or related fields.
• Excellent oral, writing, and editing skills. Skilled at informing and influencing internal and external audiences through written and oral communications.
• Aptitude to apply a non-partisan, evidence-based approach to projects and campaigns that require support across the political spectrum.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively with colleagues and leveraging a variety of technical systems to advance complex projects to successful completion with measurable results.
• Experience working productively with a wide array of stakeholders, both internal and external, and approaching issues with a nonpartisan and objective mindset in a rapidly changing environment.
• Experience working on political campaigns or advocacy campaigns that seek to secure legislation through Congress or state legislatures.
• Seasoned judgment and comfort in making decisions, justifying recommendations, and being responsive, clear, and firm with colleagues and partners.
• Applies effective quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to synthesize large amounts of information quickly and summarize findings effectively, identify gaps in research and policy analysis, and develop ideas for research products that generate broad interest.
• Effective and results-oriented planner for both short- and long-term programmatic goals and orienting these goals to align with the project team and institution’s procedures.
• Demonstrated experience meeting multiple deadlines by maintaining a high level of organization and developing and moving projects forward with independence and autonomy.
• This position requires frequent domestic travel to meetings and conferences.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country for which they are seeking employment without visa sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Foster a work environment that inspires excellence, values impact, encourages transparency, builds mutual trust and respect, embraces and values diversity, and is collaborative, caring and compassionate.
• Develop and implement effective campaign strategies and technical assistance at the state level, including identifying opportunities, pivoting strategies as conditions change, and continuously assessing the effectiveness of tactics and partners.
• Lead the execution of Pew’s state strategy in multiple states with diverse political, geographic, and economic profiles to promote policies related to endocrine disrupting chemicals.
• Cultivate and maintain detailed knowledge of state public policy discussions, regulatory changes, and other relevant changes to policies and practices related to endocrine disrupting chemicals, chemical regulation, and chemical oversight.
• Build, engage, and maintain an effective coalition of states, industry partners, and other key stakeholders to move the agenda forward.
• Track related state policy proposals and draft public comments.
• Work with contracted policy and research partners and ensure that workflow is going smoothly, meeting deliverables, and is within budget.
• Develop and execute strategies with the federal policy workstream to ensure that policy engagement on a state and federal level is working in tandem to advance Pew’s work in the health policy space.
• Develop effective public messaging, outreach materials, and outreach strategies that reach diverse audiences such as policymakers, the media, the public, and other stakeholders.
• Track related policy proposals in relevant states.
• Participate in activities that support program and Pew-wide objectives.

Benefits

• comprehensive, affordable health care through medical, dental, and vision coverage
• financial security with life and disability insurance
• opportunities to save using health savings and flexible spending accounts
• retirement benefits to help prepare for the future
• work/life benefits to maintain a good balance

What This Job Offers

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