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Government Relations Manager

The LGBT Center

Summary: The Government Relations Manager works with the Senior Director of Government Affairs to represent The Center with elected officials, their staff and key agency personnel. This individual will assist with the research, planning, cultivation, relationship management, and reporting functions to create, sustain and grow a comprehensive and integrated program of government partnership, support, and advocacy on behalf of The Center.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the execution of government relations strategic work, including coordination of The Center’s participation in events, collaborations and partnerships.
• Serve as a liaison with Community Boards and Borough Presidents, and state and city agencies, where appropriate.
• Coordinate The Center’s legislative priorities, including bill tracking and analysis, committee hearing tracking, regular communication and hearing preparation and testimony.
• Manage the government grant application process, including preparing and compiling all components for grant submissions, including meeting coordination, proper proposal formatting, packaging, and submission in accordance with granting agency requirements, as well as timeline and deliverable management.
• Engage with the LGBTQ political landscape at the local, state and federal levels.
• Develop, track and maintain database and system for recording and tracking grant proposals, awards and applicable information.
• Work with the Senior Director of Government Affairs to secure new government funding and maintain existing funding at the City, State and Federal levels for all Center programming.
• Support the facilitation of The Center’s government and community relations work as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements:

• Minimum of three (3) to five (5) years of direct experience working in a government setting or in a governmental relationship management function.
• Bachelors in Public Administration or a related field; or equivalent, transferable life/professional experience.
• Previous government relations experience within New York City and/or State strongly preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong team player and the ability to work harmoniously with diverse team.
• Comfort with working in a fast-paced environment, where pivoting from project to project is necessary,
• Prior experience working on multiple projects and setting and sticking to priorities, while maintaining high attention to detail.
• Salesforce experience a plus.
• Highly organized, professional, and trustworthy.
• Working knowledge of government funding and contracting.
• Strong sense of initiative, ability to work independently and use independent judgment.
• Ability to manage and impart information to a range of internal and external stakeholders and interested parties.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact with a wide range of personalities including government officials, staff and members of the public.
• A strong commitment to the mission of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.

Executive Director of Intergovernmental Affairs

New York City DEPT OF HEALTH/MENTAL HYGIENE

• The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) protects and promotes the health of eight million New Yorkers with a budget of $1.6 billion and more than 6,500 staff. Central to this effort are programs to combat communicable diseases, expand access to health care, prepare for emergency disease and bioterrorist threats, and tackle other public health challenges. Pursing effective public health policy is also vital to this work.

• -Monitor public health trends and initiatives, research best practices, and conduct analyses to support the generation of new policy and legislative initiatives.
• -Lead a team of three legislative analysts to develop and advance the agency’s legislative and policy agenda across all divisions.
• -Serve as the point of contact between the Department and the Office of the Mayor and other city agencies, the New York City Council, State legislature, and other key stakeholders.
• -Provides strategic advice on issues related to policy and politics to Department leadership, including the Commissioner, Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Deputy Commissioner for Mental Hygiene.
• -Oversee the agency’s relationship with key advocacy partners to ensure communications reflect the priorities of the Department.
• -Coordinate the development of briefing books materials, public testimonies, talking points, agendas and other communications.
• -Serve as the agency’s liaison to the Mayor’s Office by representing the Department’s position on public health issues.
• -Work with Communications, Community Affairs, Press Office, Office of the General Counsel, and other relevant agency units to advocate for the enactment of policies by Board of Health, City Council, state legislature, or other legislative bodies.

Minimum Qual Requirements 

1. A master’s degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a closely related field, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management; or in a related area. 18 months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or
2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in “1” above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative or supervisory experience, as described in “1” above.

Preferred Skills

Political or policy analysis background with a track record of collaborating across diverse program and subject areas;

MPA or MPH desirable;

Experience in public health or public policy development, including supervisory experience;

Excellent oral and written communication, analytic, customer service skills;

Experience working in a government or legislative office;

Self-motivator, team leader, and skilled at simultaneously managing multiple priorities and projects and

Share the agency’s commitment to public health and health equity.

Government Relations Analyst

Better.com

About Better.com:
We’re one of the fastest growing homeownership companies in America. Why? Because we’re making homeownership simpler, faster — and most importantly, more accessible for all Americans.

By combining smarter technology with a desire to not just change one piece of the journey but the entire makeup of what it’s like to buy and own a home in this country, we’re building things that don’t exist yet.

Better.com by the numbers:

• We fund $600 million in home loans per month
• Nearly $5 billion in loans funded since our inception in 2016
• 2 years running, we’re one of Crain’s “Best Places to work”
• We’re #11 on Fortune’s Best Places to Work in NYC
• And #964 on Inc.’s 2019 “5000 Fastest-Growing Companies”
• We’ve secured over $254 million from our investors to date
• …and counting

We continue to outpace the industry at every turn. We’ve recently joined forces in partnership with Ally Bank. Plus, our backers have helped build some of the most transformative tech and finance companies in history. Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs, IA Ventures, American Express, Citigroup, Activant Capital, and others have all invested in our vision of redefining the entire home buying journey.

A Better Opportunity

As a Government Relations Analyst at Better, you will be a key contributor to our tactical strategy for developing our external facing presence and advocacy priorities. You will be one of the frontline managers of all our advocacy priorities, including managing relationships with legislators in Washington, DC and our footprint states, issue coalitions, third-party stakeholders and industry peers. You will also collaborate with our Public Relations function and other teams to support high profile strategies and events. More specifically, you will:

• Conduct policy research
• Perform data analysis
• Manage internal communications on government relations activities
• Ad-hoc projects as necessary

This person will be reporting to Better’s Government Relations Associate.

About You

The ideal candidate will be highly organized and a great communicator with the ability to deliver best-in-class service, while maintaining their composure in a fast-paced environment.

• You have at least one legislative internship at any level of government
• Understand state and federal lobbying compliance law
• Experience writing legislative text and testimony
• Possess excellent project management and task tracking skills
• Can work in a fast-paced environment and juggle multiple projects
• Can think outside the box in difficult situations; giving up is never an option
• SQL skills a plus
• Start up Grit

Things we value:

• Curiosity. Why? How? Repeat.
• Nerdiness. Financial news and trends are fascinating. Seriously.
• Relentlessness. No one here gives up. We try. We fail. We will try again.
• Passion. If you don’t get excited about homeownership, mortgages, and real estate, it simply won’t work.
• Smarts: book and street. We have to use all the tools at our disposal to build Better.
• Empathy and Compassion. You understand that people’s biggest dreams are in your hands.
• Communication. Can you ask for help or put your hand up when you don’t understand?

Building. Doing. Making. Yes, we have to do a lot of thinking and talking to figure this stuff out, but you can’t wait to leave the conversation and build it.