Specialist, Network Advocacy (Chicago or Washington DC)
Description
Work. Serve. Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Chicago or Washington DC office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees must be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and can work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
The Opportunity
The Specialist, Network Advocacy will build advocacy capacity and engagement opportunities to advance policy priorities and advocacy programs that empower the people we serve. Work with food bank network members, the people we serve, and the public through our digital advocacy programs. Use a wide range of skills to support Feeding America’s advocacy program including coordinating the network and external advocacy communications efforts to help advance a policy agenda that increases both private and government food and funds for members, leads to federal regulations and laws that support reducing domestic hunger and positions Feeding America as the leading authority on hunger and hunger-related issues.
This position is office based in either our Chicago or our Washington DC office with moderate (up to 20%) travel required.
Compensation
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $79,000 - $93,000 Based on Experience and Location.
Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range: $79,000 - $93,000 Based on Experience and Location.
Benefits: A comprehensive list of benefits available to full-time employees can be found here.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Contributes to the implementation of advocacy strategies to advance Feeding America’s public policy agenda and increase engagement of advocates.
- Oversees timely and effective communications to network members about key legislative and policy issues and actions, through the weekly GR update, monthly GR webinars, maintaining the GR and Advocacy team’s intranet site, and other communication needs – with support from advocacy team members and other GR staff.
- Oversees the tracking of data around Feeding America’s network member advocacy legislative engagement and capacity efforts and ensures data – including contact data and advocacy tracking data – is up-to-date using databases including Quorum and Salesforce.
- Oversees organization and posting of advocacy, government relations and policy content on FeedingAmerica.org and other digital advocacy channels, in collaboration with the Manager, Digital Advocacy, digital marketing and IT teams respectively.
- Oversees the advocacy-related session development, content, and coordination of sessions needed for major conferences and events.
- Collaborates in the development of advocacy resources and toolkits for network members and digital advocates, provides advocacy technical assistance and support for network members, writes memos and reports on advocacy engagement trends across network.
- Collaborates with appropriate internal stakeholders enterprise-wide to ensure policy positions and initiatives are integrated into cross-programmatic strategies and projects.
- Provides counsel to VP of Advocacy and Neighbor Engagement and Director of Network Advocacy on advocacy strategies and learnings to help improve the program.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience in issue advocacy, grassroots mobilization, external affairs or issue campaigns required.
- Strong writing skills are required.
- Experience with CRMs (particularly EveryAction, Salesforce, Quorum), using social media platforms for advocacy engagement essential.
- Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
Required Leadership Competencies:
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
Feeding America’s goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging and contribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences. We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need. We encourage all individuals, including those from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger, to apply.
Feeding America participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.