ADVOCACY MANAGER JOB DESCRIPTION

An Advocacy Manager translates policy priorities into organized action. The role owns the execution of state and federal advocacy strategy within a non-profit or mission-driven organization, recruiting and managing volunteer advocate networks, cultivating relationships with elected officials and coalition partners, and ensuring that the populations the organization serves have a visible voice in legislative and regulatory processes. Where a Government Affairs Manager typically focuses on lobbying strategy at the organizational level, this role answers to both leadership and the grassroots: managing ACT member pipelines, grant-funded programme deliverables, and earned-media opportunities simultaneously. That dual accountability is what makes the work genuinely hard.

As the Advocacy Manager, you will own the design and execution of grassroots and legislative engagement programmes that translate a non-profit's policy agenda into measurable community and governmental action. You sit within the policy, government relations, or programme team, operating under a State Director, Campaigns Director, or equivalent senior leader, with regular coordination across communications, community engagement, and development functions.

Career Impact: Sustained work managing volunteer ambassador pipelines and state legislative relationships builds the kind of political credibility that opens doors to Senior Advocacy Manager and Director of Government Affairs roles within five to seven years.

Business Impact: When this role functions well, volunteer advocates show up at the right committee hearings, grant deliverables are met, and the communities the organization serves see their priorities reflected in state and federal policy outcomes.

Growth Opportunity: The combination of grassroots organizing, coalition management, and grant reporting gives Advocacy Managers a cross-functional skill set that commands value across the broader public policy, non-profit, and government sectors.

• Lead development and execution of a statewide advocacy agenda, coordinating state and federal legislative priorities with national office counterparts.
• Recruit, train, and manage a structured volunteer advocate network, including ambassador and champion pipelines aligned to congressional and state legislative districts.
• Cultivate ongoing relationships with elected officials, their staff, and coalition partners to advance the organization's policy platform.
• Coordinate community education events, town halls, and advocacy days at the state capitol and in congressional district offices.
• Prepare and distribute policy communications, including issue briefs, talking points, action alerts, and op-eds, in collaboration with the communications team.
• Monitor legislative activity and regulatory developments, tracking bills, committee agendas, and task force meetings to inform leadership on attendance and response needs.
• Manage grant reporting obligations and budget allocations tied to advocacy programme deliverables.
• Represent the organization at public forums, coalitions, task forces, and agency meetings on behalf of the communities it serves.

• Bachelor's degree in public policy, political science, social work, public administration, or equivalent work experience.
• 3 or more years of advocacy, government relations, or community organizing experience, with demonstrated knowledge of state or federal legislative processes.
• Experience recruiting, training, and coordinating volunteers or grassroots advocates in a structured programme.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with elected officials, agency staff, coalition partners, and community stakeholders.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to produce policy briefs, action alerts, talking points, and grant reports for varied audiences.
• Proven capacity to manage multiple concurrent projects with competing deadlines and to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in programme design and stakeholder engagement.
• Valid driver's license and access to reliable transportation, with willingness to travel across the service area, including occasional evenings and weekends.

• Experience managing grant-funded advocacy programmes, including budget tracking and funder reporting.
• Familiarity with aging, health equity, domestic violence, child welfare, or other human services policy areas relevant to the organization's mission.
• Bilingual proficiency, particularly in Spanish and English, to support engagement with diverse constituent communities.
• Prior experience with grassroots advocacy or issue campaign environments, including coalition organizing or volunteer management at scale.

• Active volunteer ambassador count per congressional or legislative district, reflecting network depth and coverage.
• Advocate contact rate with targeted elected officials during priority legislative windows, measured per session or campaign cycle.
• Grant deliverable completion rate, tracking on-time submission of required advocacy programme reports to funders.
• Number of coalition meetings attended and organizational representation events per quarter, reflecting external relationship maintenance.
• Community event attendance and volunteer activation rate across advocacy days and town halls.
• Typical tools: Advocacy management platforms (commonly VoterVoice or Phone2Action); constituent relationship management (commonly Salesforce Nonprofit or EveryAction)

• Base Salary Range: $55,000 to $75,000 annually, varying by region and organizational budget
• Bonus: Performance or mission-based bonuses, where available, are not universal in the non-profit sector
• Equity: Not typically offered in non-profit organizations
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer contribution rates vary by organization
• PTO: 15 to 20 days annually, plus federal holidays; some organizations offer additional mission days
• Common Perks: Flexible scheduling, remote or hybrid options, professional development funding, and conference travel reimbursement

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process. Requests may be directed to the hiring organization. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Given the nature of this role, employment is contingent on successful completion of a background check, which may include a criminal history review in accordance with applicable law. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

The Advocacy Manager owns the implementation of a statewide federal and state advocacy strategy in Ohio, leading results-oriented execution of the national, state, and community priority issue agenda across outreach, volunteer engagement, and member experience functions. Reporting to the State Director and partnering with the Ohio Executive Council, this role integrates the advocacy strategy into the overall state plan to grow relevance and impact for the 50+ population.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and implements a statewide federal and state advocacy strategy aligned with the national and state priority issue agenda.
• Integrates the advocacy strategy into the overall state plan in collaboration with the state leadership team.
• Builds and maintains a high-functioning team of generalists and subject matter professionals across advocacy, education, volunteer engagement, and member experience functions.
• Leads approaches for state and federal outreach, multicultural member engagement, and volunteer management in collaboration with national colleagues.
• Cultivates and maintains internal and external relationships across the enterprise and empowers team members to do the same.
• Plans and recommends strategic vision for targeted state and federal advocacy to senior leadership.
• Translates vision and strategy into an actionable plan for team members, volunteers, and external partners.
• Manages budget and resource allocation for state and federal outreach and advocacy.
• Supervises and leads a team of professionals using best-in-class management practices to motivate, support, and continually improve performance.
• Develops and monitors work plans, manages and documents staff performance, and takes corrective action when necessary.
• Ensures policies and procedures are carried out appropriately and identifies training and development needs of staff.
• Leads cross-functional implementation of the state plan, incorporating demographic, cultural, and economic dynamics to grow relevance and impact in targeted communities.
• Calibrates implementation of the state plan regularly with leadership and the national office to reflect the changing needs of the 50+ population.
• Represents the organisation at relevant forums and serves on enterprise task forces and work groups.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in public administration, social work, community organisation or development, political science, public policy, law, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing a diverse workforce environment.
• Minimum of 5 years of multicultural audience experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing a distributed and complex volunteer structure, including working with volunteers at the executive and grassroots level.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing external relationships, including with diverse audiences.
• Strong understanding of public policy issues facing the state and the association's membership, with some policy experience preferred.
• Demonstrated track record of communicating effectively with the media, policymakers, and external stakeholders.
• Ability to build rapport for results-oriented relationships with a lens of cultural competence.
• Knowledge of and experience with common approaches for marketing research and data analysis.
• Demonstrated competence in oral and written communication, computer literacy, social media, strategic thinking, and people management.
• Experience with strategic planning and financial and budget management.

Embedded within the South Dakota Chapter of the ACLU's National office, the Advocacy Manager delivers multi-disciplinary advocacy campaigns involving legislative, policy, legal, communication, and organising strategies to advance civil liberties and civil rights at the state and local level. Working closely with the Campaigns Director and community partners, this role builds a strong and robust organisational presence in South Dakota by cultivating relationships with directly impacted community members and key policymakers.

Core Functions

• Develops and executes effective multi-disciplinary advocacy campaigns involving legislative, policy, legal, communication, and organising strategies.
• Prepares and directs the statewide advocacy agenda, identifying, analysing, and tracking priority issues affecting civil liberties.
• Organises, leads, and participates in community education events, meetings, and trainings.
• Develops strategy and leads field organising activities for advocacy campaigns.
• Plans and manages events to raise visibility and support for campaigns.
• Recruits and trains community leaders and volunteers in support of campaigns.
• Establishes and cultivates collaborative relationships with community partners, coalitions, stakeholders, and key state and local policymakers.
• Identifies and develops relationships with directly impacted community members and creates leadership opportunities for them to accomplish shared strategic goals.
• Serves as a spokesperson for the organisation with the press and as a professional representative of the organisation.
• Elevates the stories and experiences of impacted communities to ensure their interests and vision are reflected in campaigns.
• Prepares materials in collaboration with communications staff, including blog and social media posts, issue briefs, letters, talking points, reports, action alerts, website updates, and op-eds.
• Works with communications staff to identify and develop stories of impacted individuals.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in a political, advocacy, organising, or policy-related field.
• Commitment to advancing civil liberties values, mission, goals, and programmes with an appreciation for and sensitivity to the culture of the organisation.
• Proactive and adept with key tools in advocacy and policy change, with an understanding of the political landscape and the ability to work across the political spectrum on bipartisan issues.
• Ability to think creatively and use non-litigation strategies to promote integrated advocacy campaigns.
• Ability to handle and prioritise multiple activities and responsibilities and to demonstrate composure under pressure.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with staff and partners from diverse backgrounds, coalitions, community groups, and volunteers.
• Ability to work evenings and weekend hours and travel to meetings and events throughout the state, as well as to national and regional trainings and conferences.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to resolve conflicts in a way that preserves relationships with colleagues and community partners.
• Strong sense of accountability to both internal teams and external partners in the community.
• Commitment to diversity within the organisation, valuing all individuals and respecting differences in race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, arrest or conviction record, and socioeconomic circumstance.
• Commitment to working collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflicts.
• Personal initiative and the ability to follow through with minimal direct supervision.
• Open to constructive criticism and committed to strengthening professional skills and tactics.

Reporting to department leadership, the Advocacy Manager shapes regulatory compliance strategy by evaluating new and emerging technologies, managing compliance for new and existing products, and leading advocacy engagement through trade association committees to satisfy internal and external customer business needs. Partnering with regulatory agencies, trade associations, and cross-functional teams, this role anticipates chemistry and compliance issues affecting the business and delivers content that communicates the impact of advocacy efforts across business lines.

Primary Duties

• Evaluates new and emerging technologies and their regulatory compliance implications to meet business strategies.
• Investigates and benchmarks industry groups supporting new technologies to determine appropriate participation.
• Develops, maintains, and implements workflows, training materials, and guidance documents to ensure compliance with product stewardship requirements.
• Provides regional regulatory compliance support and performs duties related to product stewardship activities.
• Serves in a variety of support roles for departmental process expert circles, including transportation, food safety, and related functions.
• Anticipates chemistry, regulatory, and compliance issues affecting the business and leads activities as a departmental expert.
• Manages compliance for new and existing products to satisfy internal and external customer business needs and regulatory requirements.
• Oversees certain activities under advocacy, including engagement through trade association committees.
• Supports the continuing implementation of the Responsible Care 14001 Management System.
• Understands business needs and represents those needs to regulatory agencies, trade associations, and customers.
• Develops content for business lines to better understand the impact of advocacy efforts and delivers this content through regular communication.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant science field such as toxicology, chemistry, biochemistry, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience, including employment with a multinational chemical manufacturer or supplier.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within a global regulatory or toxicological department.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of global chemical-control regulations, including the Toxic Substances Control Act, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, and REACH.
• Functional knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements as they relate to business support, with hands-on experience in the SAP EHS Module and demonstrated ability to analyse and data-mine SAP databases.
• Excellent interpersonal and professional speaking skills combined with strong technical writing ability.
• Willingness and ability to travel both domestically and internationally.

Sitting at the intersection of social media strategy and internal communications, the Employee Social Advocacy Manager oversees the ongoing management of the employee advocacy programme and administers the enterprise software platform, owning the vendor relationship and configuring settings across 150+ internal publishers. Operating across talent, communications, sales enablement, and employee experience teams, this role leverages data-driven insights to identify performance trends and enables the organisation to scale consistent, on-brand employee content across digital and social channels.

Duties

• Oversees the ongoing management of the employee advocacy programme and develops plans to optimise and scale it.
• Manages a distributed editorial model, including direct responsibility for the creation and execution of a content calendar aligned with external brand social media activities.
• Facilitates processes and practices for content creation across 150+ internal publishers.
• Administers the employee advocacy software platform, owning the vendor relationship, configuring settings, monitoring seats, and identifying training and optimisation opportunities.
• Serves as a centre of excellence for employee content creators, providing best practices and guidelines to ensure consistently high-quality, on-brand content.
• Collaborates with internal teams across talent, communications, sales enablement, and employee experience to integrate upcoming initiatives into the editorial calendar.
• Explores and defines strategies for additional employee advocacy opportunities, such as LinkedIn content recommendations and user-generated content campaigns.
• Creates training programmes for employees and executives to build personal brands and ensure on-brand positioning of content.
• Leverages data-driven insights to identify performance trends, make strategic adjustments, and develop reports for internal stakeholders.
• Assists in ongoing research across the digital and social space, including competitive technology audits, social media audits, vendor audits, and trend monitoring.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, journalism, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in social media, internal or external communications, or employee advocacy or ambassador programmes for a large, well-known brand.
• Experience developing and managing a social media editorial calendar and an enterprise SaaS employee advocacy tool, such as Dynamic Signal, Everyone Social, or Bambu.
• Passionate about social media content and strategy, with a proven ability to deliver meaningful content via digital and social channels.
• Adept at developing new and creative ways to activate employee advocacy around existing company initiatives or campaigns.
• Working understanding of employee advocacy programmes and how they are used effectively.
• Excellent analytical and reporting abilities, with the capacity to collect meaningful data, interpret it, and develop strategic insights to guide programmes.
• Excellent written and oral communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working with multiple teams across an enterprise.

A key member of the Office of Government Relations and the Office of General Counsel, the Behavioral Health Advocacy Manager provides patient-level advocacy and consultation to clinical and leadership teams by issue-spotting, problem-solving, and coordinating with state agencies, payors, and legal services organisations on behalf of children and families facing barriers to behavioral health care. Collaborating across the Department of Psychiatry, Care Management, Social Work, and the Accountable Care Organisation, this role enhances the hospital's capacity to track behavioral health inpatient boarding data and enables timely access to appropriate residential and continuing care placement.

Functions

• Provides patient-level advocacy, consultation, and support to clinical and leadership teams by issue-spotting, problem-solving, and coordinating with external systems, including state agencies, local education authorities, payors, providers, and legal services organisations.
• Provides patient-level advocacy and support on behalf of patients in the care and custody of the Department of Children and Families who are facing difficulty accessing timely residential, foster, or continuing care placement.
• Enhances the hospital's capacity to track and analyse behavioral health inpatient boarding data and escalation protocols.
• Develops systems and processes to communicate with and engage internal experts and departments on issues impacting patient-level behavioral health access.
• Works in close consultation with the Department of Psychiatry, Care Management, Social Work, Child Protection Programme, and the Accountable Care Organisation.
• Provides support to the Office of General Counsel regarding patient care matters, including participating in team coverage rotation for off-hour patient care emergency matters.
• Provides support to the Medical Legal Partnership, including conducting intakes, issue-spotting, and referrals for legal services.
• Conducts briefings and trainings for internal stakeholders.
• Represents the hospital at meetings and fosters collaboration with partner organisations and internal departments.

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Juris Doctorate with current bar licensure preferred, along with demonstrated experience in child advocacy, healthcare, behavioral health, or government.
• Analytical skills to resolve problems requiring the application of scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, including the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse internal and external constituencies.

Sustained growth in enterprise marketing depends on the Enterprise Advocacy Manager, who builds deep connections with enterprise customers and brings their stories to life through videos, case studies, speaking opportunities, and advisory boards that unite leading global brands with industry data luminaries. Based within the Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Sales teams, this role owns the logo approval workstream and manages co-marketing collaborations with Fortune 500 customers to amplify the voice of the customer and drive loyalty, adoption, and advocacy.

Accountabilities

• Partners cross-functionally with enterprise sales, product, and customer success teams to manage co-marketing collaborations with the largest, highest-priority customers.
• Owns the logo approval workstream, building strategy, and negotiating terms with Fortune 500 customers.
• Builds deep relationships with enterprise customer advocates globally.
• Organises enterprise customer events and advocate activations, both virtually and in person.
• Ensures advocacy efforts support overarching marketing goals and proactively seeks opportunities to infuse customer perspectives and advocacy into marketing content and communications.
• Uses qualitative and quantitative data and a customer-first mindset to continually innovate and optimise advocacy programmes.
• Measures and communicates programme success internally and externally.

Technical Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in enterprise customer sales, advocacy, or customer success.
• Experience with B2B programmes, preferably in the Modern Data Stack space.
• Strong foundation in customer- and community-centric marketing.
• Experience building customer advisory boards, feedback groups, and other events.
• Experience collaborating with external vendors and agencies.
• Experience building and managing customer reference, advocacy, and enablement programmes.
• Experience working with advocacy tools such as Crowdvocate, SaaS platforms such as Marketo and Salesforce, and BI tools such as Looker.
• Measured approach with the ability to self-direct, lead, organise, and prioritise multiple projects.
• Ability to analyse and diagnose complex business challenges and develop creative and impactful marketing programmes.

As the Advocacy Manager, this role recruits, trains, supervises, and develops advocates and other direct service staff across a primary office and assigned off-site locations while ensuring 24-hour advocacy coverage for hospitals and law enforcement. The direct services team relies on this work to deliver quality, client-focused advocacy services and safety planning for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in accordance with programme standards.

Activities

• Recruits, trains, supervises, schedules, and develops advocates and other direct service staff.
• Ensures appropriate staffing at the primary office and assigned off-site locations.
• Authorises requests for emergency funds.
• Ensures client files are current in the data management system.
• Prepares and writes grant reports as necessary.
• Provides a format for advocates to share information about community organisations and resources.
• Facilitates training sessions for volunteers and community groups.
• Provides quality, client-focused advocacy services and safety planning in accordance with programme standards.
• Maintains accurate client and other documentation within assigned deadlines.
• Communicates effectively in oral and written form with clients, collaborating agencies, co-workers, supervisors, and the community.
• Attends all required supervision meetings.
• Assists in covering on-call shifts to ensure 24-hour advocacy coverage for hospitals and law enforcement.

Position Requirements

• Master's degree in social work, criminal justice, public administration, or a related field preferred; Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of direct service and case management experience.
• Minimum of 1–3 years of supervisory experience in a social services environment preferred.
• Knowledge of domestic violence and background in women's issues and community resources.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation regarding crime victims.
• Ability to work as an advocate across a variety of settings, including the criminal justice system, civil court, hospitals, and outside agencies.
• Ability to work with clients in crises while remaining positive and client-focused.
• Ability to work with diverse clients from various communities and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to supervise direct care and case management staff.
• Ability to multitask and manage competing priorities.
• Ability to provide own transportation to any required location within the service area.
• Fluency in spoken, written, and read Spanish preferred.
• Must pass a required background check.
• Must complete required domestic violence, sexual assault, hotline, and stalking training upon hire.

The Senior Advocacy Manager develops and executes a patient advocacy strategy that positions the organisation as a leading biotechnology company by building and maintaining relationships with patient advocacy organisations and societies across relevant disease areas. The work directly supports business units including field force, digital communications, and medical teams, enabling execution of internal educational initiatives, disease awareness campaigns, and patient and family webinars aligned with organisational goals.

Operational Focus

• Develops and executes a patient advocacy strategy, positioning the organisation as a leading biotechnology company.
• Builds and maintains relationships with patient advocacy organisations and societies.
• Works closely with business units, including field force, digital communications, and medical teams, to support strategic objectives through advocacy activities.
• Coordinates events for relevant diseases, including non-HCP education and disease awareness campaigns and patient and family webinars, aligned with organisational goals and strategy.
• Manages sponsorship, grant, and volunteerism requests submitted on behalf of the patient advocacy function.
• Drives the execution of internal educational initiatives related to patients and develops materials to keep colleagues informed of ongoing local efforts.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Patient advocacy experience or patient relationship-building experience.
• Cross-functional work experience.
• Excellent communication skills to build mutual relationships with external customers.
• Strong organisational agility and ability to work cross-functionally across a growing matrix organisation while engaging multiple internal stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a global and culturally diverse environment and interact with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Native-level proficiency in Japanese required, both spoken and written.
• English reading and writing skills required; English presentation skills preferred.
• Ability to travel nationally as needed and internationally on occasion.

The Advocacy Manager produces a cohesive government relations programme by cultivating relationships with city council district offices and parks board members, representing the organisation at city council and parks board meetings, and partnering with senior leadership to develop and execute the overarching advocacy strategy. Reporting to senior leadership and collaborating with the Community Engagement Manager and marketing team, this role converts contacts into advocates and enables the organisation to advance its policy platform across local, regional, and national city parks issues.

Key Deliverables

• Cultivates and strengthens relationships with city council district offices to promote and advance the organisation's policy platform.
• Fosters and strengthens relationships with parks board members and advocacy partners.
• Represents the organisation at city meetings, including city council and parks board meetings.
• Stays informed on relevant local news, city council meeting agendas, and local, regional, and national city parks issues, and keeps leadership up to date.
• Tracks city council, boards and commissions, relevant working groups and task forces, and other pertinent city meetings to determine attendance needs.
• Partners with senior leadership to develop and execute the overarching advocacy strategy.
• Supports leadership in reviewing parks and recreation department assessments, unmet needs, and strategic plans.
• Works with the marketing team to provide content for the website and plan advocacy communications.
• Leads quarterly partner meetings and represents the organisation in various coalitions.
• Works with the Community Engagement Manager to identify opportunities and convert contacts to advocates, including park adopters, volunteers, neighbourhood associations, past board members, and partner organisations.

Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Overall work experience of 5 or more years required, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in advocacy, government relations, or a related field.
• Familiarity with the local political landscape.
• Excellent written, verbal, and public speaking skills.
• Superior relationship-building skills with proven ability to manage and steward key partnerships.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Ability to work independently while also functioning as a strong team player.
• Positive, proactive, and self-motivated demeanour.

Reporting to senior leadership, the Senior Advocacy Manager advances the adoption of smart energy by influencing governments to amend regulations and legislation and securing grants and other revenue to sustain and grow advocacy work across renewable hydrogen and electric vehicle policy initiatives. Working closely with government, business, industry, academia, media, and community stakeholders, this role prepares high-quality written content, including funding proposals and political briefings, to enable coordinated advocacy campaigns and expanded organisational impact.

Areas of Ownership

• Influences governments to amend regulations and legislation to advance the adoption of smart energy.
• Finds and secures grants and other revenue to maintain and grow advocacy work.
• Supports and maintains growing relationships with government, business and industry, academia, media, and community stakeholders.
• Builds and maintains high-level networks with relevant stakeholders and assists in working collaboratively with diverse sector partners to execute coordinated campaigns.
• Leads the delivery of projects, which may include renewable hydrogen or electric vehicle policies.
• Coordinates with the communications team on proactive and reactive media opportunities.
• Prepares high-quality written content, including funding proposals, summary reports, political briefings, talking points, statements, and media releases.
• Contributes positively to organisational culture, including supporting and developing other team members.

Education & Experience

• Degree in a related field and/or directly related experience.
• Minimum of 6 years of demonstrated effective advocacy experience at the state or federal level, in policy and communications.
• Demonstrated skills in developing advocacy tactics, with strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Project management experience in the delivery of campaigns or other programmes.
• Experience working with politicians and their advisers.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to make complex information accessible.
• Ability to adapt and respond positively when priorities shift quickly, with a strong capacity to work autonomously and meet tight deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to travel when required.

Sitting at the intersection of patient relations and federal health policy, the Advocacy Manager manages all components of the Patient Advocacy Connections Programme, Bladder Health Alliance, Prostate Cancer Impact Alliance, and Kidney Cancer Impact Alliance, including budgets, programme development, and evaluation. Operating across relationships with patient advocacy organisations, the National Institutes of Health, and the Research Advocacy Committee, this role enables the urologic advocacy community to advance federal rulemaking priorities and promote sustained advocacy collaboration.

Job Functions

• Manages all components of the Patient Advocacy Connections Programme, Bladder Health Alliance, Prostate Cancer Impact Alliance, and Kidney Cancer Impact Alliance, including budgets, programme development, and evaluation.
• Cultivates relationships with patient advocacy organisations through regular outreach and by sharing relevant resources.
• Prepares and distributes regular communications for the urologic advocacy community to promote advocacy collaboration.
• Provides support to the Research Advocacy Committee.
• Supports patient advocacy activities associated with the Annual Urology Summit, including the inclusion of patient advocates on panels.
• Maintains relationships with agencies within the National Institutes of Health and schedules meetings as needed for staff and committee members.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, preferably in public policy.
• Minimum of 5 years of management experience.
• Thorough knowledge of federal rulemaking, health policy, and health care–related agencies.
• Strong policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning skills.
• Prior experience working with patient groups preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to serve as a persuasive and effective spokesperson.
• Strong external relations and interpersonal skills.

A key member of the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, the Advocacy Manager trains and develops the direct service team to provide best-practice, empowering, client-centred services to survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and related crimes while managing 24/7 advocacy coverage and ensuring compliance with contracts, funders, and accreditation agencies. Collaborating with community service providers and reporting to the Director of Sexual Assault Services, this role implements trauma-informed policies and procedures and enables the organisation to deliver high-quality, survivor-centred care to underrepresented groups across the service area.

What You'll Do

• Supports direct service staff providing seamless services to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, bullying, and other crimes.
• Trains and develops the direct service team to provide best-practice, empowering, client-centred services.
• Manages and ensures 24/7 availability of advocacy services for victims of sexual assault.
• Provides 24/7 direct services to victims in complex circumstances requiring a higher level of intervention.
• Solicits, maintains, and reviews client and stakeholder feedback to ensure delivery of a high-quality experience.
• Prepares and delivers public presentations on sexual violence to promote awareness and provide access to services and referrals.
• Implements policies and procedures for programmes and ensures compliance with state regulatory guidelines, agency policies, and industry best practices.
• Provides coaching, staff development, and performance evaluation to direct service providers.
• Reviews data, reports on trends, and makes service recommendations based on findings.
• Develops, coordinates, and maintains relationships with community service providers, with an emphasis on identifying underrepresented groups.
• Coordinates and participates in community awareness activities and represents the agency at meetings and task forces.
• Facilitates peer reviews of cases to offer real-time case planning and advocacy support for clients.
• Ensures all services are properly documented in accordance with industry standards, accreditation requirements, and agency policies and procedures.
• Ensures direct service staff maintain all required training and certifications, including Crimes Victim's Compensation, Victim Services Practitioner Designation, and advocacy core training.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human services or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in advocacy, social work, or a related field.
• Knowledge of legislation regarding sexual assault victims and of local law enforcement protocol about victims of sexual assault.
• Understanding of trauma-informed care and how trauma affects individuals seeking services.
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to view programmes and services from a systems perspective.
• Knowledge of contract administration and management.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills, with a proven ability to manage multiple projects and achieve results.
• Excellent communication skills, including oral, written, and presentation.
• Analytical thinking with strong quantitative and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to create a team environment using strong interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office products and database management software.
• Must possess reliable transportation and a valid driver's licence.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Must complete Advocacy Core Training as required within 30 days of employment.

Reporting to the Director, the Advocacy Manager refines the organisation's advocacy strategy by leading day-to-day coordination of the advocacy team and overseeing the Results Framework, monitoring and evaluation approach, and the development and submission of funding proposals related to priority advocacy areas. Partnering with the Director, Development, and Network Manager, this role applies the meaningful involvement of people living with relevant conditions to organisational advocacy work and manages grants applicable to identified priority areas.

Role Responsibilities

• Leads, in partnership with the Director, the development and monitoring of the organisation's advocacy strategy and assigned advocacy objectives.
• Co-ordinates the advocacy team on a day-to-day basis, with line management to the Senior Advocacy Advisor.
• Partners with the Director in overseeing the development of the organisation's advocacy strategy, including the Results Framework and the monitoring and evaluation approach.
• Partners with the Director, Development, and Network Manager in the development and submission of funding proposals and reports related to advocacy work, and manages grants applicable to identified priority advocacy areas.
• Applies the meaningful involvement of people living with relevant conditions to organisational advocacy work.

Background & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in management, development studies, public policy, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in planning, managing, and implementing advocacy projects.
• Knowledge of non-profit governance and structure.
• Strong network within the government and media industries.
• Strong research skills.
• Experience organising and coordinating advocacy and engagement activities, including meetings, campaign days, social media campaigns, and conferences.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and advise colleagues on policy changes across the organisation.
• Ability to communicate with a range of internal and external stakeholders and foster positive working relationships in diverse settings.

Translating youth-related data into clear and actionable communications for Indiana policymakers and stakeholders is the defining work of the Policy & Data Advocacy Manager, who produces high-quality materials, including state KIDS COUNT Data Books, issue briefs, white papers, and data analyses, while building strong relationships with partner organisations, data providers, and local community stakeholders. Serving as a resourceful partner to senior leadership and collaborating with multiple internal departments, this role informs and executes a data-driven, long-term strategic approach that inspires action around youth and youth worker issues across federal, state, and local policy.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Provides expertise and insight into a range of youth well-being and youth worker issue areas, including data and current and proposed federal, state, and local policy.
• Identifies and researches legislative trends and recommends and assists in developing analysis, strategies, and language around priority issue areas.
• Provides written insight and analysis on data and key legislative and policy issues, with an emphasis on impact on youth.
• Develops educational and informational materials for stakeholders on data and youth issues and effective tools for achieving equity outcomes.
• Produces high-quality written materials, including a state KIDS COUNT Data Book, data analyses and summaries, issue briefs, white papers, blog posts, digital communications, presentations, and other informational literature.
• Writes clear, concise, and polished copy consistent with organisational tone and mission.
• Edits content produced by the data and communications team, including copy-editing before publishing.
• Provides specialised and technical research projects at the request of senior leadership.
• Informs and executes a data-driven, long-term strategic approach to sharing, educating, and inspiring action around youth and youth worker issues.
• Collaborates with other departments to ensure key data and issues are integrated into programme initiatives.
• Creates a thorough analysis of how key youth issues vary across the state and develops recommendations for communicating on topical issues in a mission-aligned manner.
• Engages meaningfully in conferences, convenings, work groups, and other activities related to priority areas.
• Builds strong relationships with partner organisations, data providers, experts, and local community stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree in public policy, human services, education, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of direct experience in policy advocacy at the state or local level.
• Experience or knowledge in fields such as youth development, education, child welfare, family services, health, and/or juvenile justice.
• Experience tracking legislation and analysing bills for their immediate and long-term impact.
• Understanding of state regulations or rulemaking, including state processes for drafting, influencing, and adopting regulations.
• Experience using statistical software and data visualisation software such as Tableau.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with close attention to detail.
• Exceptional ability to critically analyse policy issues and data.
• Project management skills, including time management, scheduling, and event co-ordination.
• Ability to travel within the state as required.

As the Florida Advocacy Manager, this role plans and implements all grassroots advocacy activities required to engage state and federal officials, recruits and trains volunteer advocates, including Alzheimer's Association Ambassadors, and represents the Florida chapters at public forums, conferences, and government agencies on public policy issues. The Florida chapters rely on this work to mobilise advocates on federal issues, support planning for Alzheimer's Advocacy Day, and enable sustained engagement with state and congressional officials in support of the Association's public policy priorities.

Scope of Work

• Plans and implements all grassroots advocacy activities required to engage state and federal officials.
• Recruits, trains, and facilitates the efforts of volunteer advocates, including Alzheimer's Association Ambassadors and state-level Association Champions for state legislators.
• Develops and maintains a goal of one volunteer Ambassador and two ACT members per Member of Congress.
• Manages year-round state policy grassroots advocacy activities, including office visits and electronic correspondence.
• Mobilises advocates on federal issues in co-ordination with the national public policy office, ensuring timely and effective responses to new developments.
• Works with advocates to promote the Association's federal and state policy priorities in earned and social media.
• Supports planning for Alzheimer's Advocacy Day at the state capitol, including recruiting and training volunteer advocates and coordinating their engagement.
• Supports leadership in coordinating advocates during committee meetings and meetings with elected officials.
• Recruits and coordinates volunteer advocates to attend the Annual Advocacy Forum in Washington, D.C., and to engage in pre- and post-Forum congressional district office meetings.
• Plans and implements town halls and other community events as directed with state and federal officials.
• Represents the chapter at public forums, conferences, state task forces, and government agencies on public policy issues as needed.
• Supports and participates in chapter events as requested.

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in grassroots advocacy, volunteer management, or community organising, preferably with non-profit organisations.
• Strong and extensive experience in volunteer recruitment and volunteer management.
• Experience in coalition building and community organising.
• Political or issue advocacy campaign experience desired.
• Current contacts within the state government and the federal congressional delegation are a plus.
• Familiarity with senior, aging, health, and long-term care issues and experience engaging vulnerable populations is a plus.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse populations with a high level of integrity, diplomacy, and initiative.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate, identify, organise, and analyse public policy opportunities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a detail-oriented, adaptable, and organised approach to managing multiple projects and tasks.
• Ability and willingness to travel across the state, including some evenings and weekends.
• Must possess a valid driver's licence, a good driving record, access to a reliable vehicle, and proof of automobile insurance.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred.

Senior Manager of Advocacy oversees a team of Advocacy Managers and Community Managers, leading recruitment, onboarding, and strategy development to position the organisation as a leading influencer in the cybersecurity prevention space across sales, communication, and technology channels. Success in the position means defining and running MVP and open-source programmes, delivering thought leadership presentations to industry analysts and external stakeholders, and enabling advocacy managers to contribute to demand generation tactics through content creation and high-impact conference speaking opportunities.

Work Activities

• Recruits, onboards, and trains new hires within the advocacy and community management team.
• Works with senior leadership to define community strategy and develop a growth plan to position the organisation as a leading influencer in the prevention space.
• Ensures advocacy managers submit for and speak at the most impactful industry conferences.
• Accelerates advocacy managers' contribution to demand generation tactics through content creation and speaking opportunities.
• Defines and runs MVP and open-source programmes, aligning them with the product portfolio strategy.
• Advocates the organisational vision and portfolio with external key stakeholders in the industry.
• Actively engages with practitioners across the cybersecurity industry through networking, social media, and live events.
• Cultivates strong relationships with customers and security practitioners to increase the size, quality, and loyalty of the community.
• Understands customer pain points, needs, and interests to develop a unique thought leadership platform.
• Leverages competitive, market, and business data to stay current on industry topics and trends.
• Delivers presentations on thought leadership to internal and external groups, including industry analysts.
• Contributes to the overall marketing and messaging strategy, priorities, and solution positioning worldwide.
• Provides mentorship, guidance, and career development to team members, with a focus on people management skills.
• Evaluates team performance, provides quarterly feedback, completes annual reviews, and recommends rewards based on performance.
• Partners with senior management on budget requests and spending for strategy and team development needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a marketing-related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in marketing, campaign marketing, demand generation, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of direct people management experience, with experience managing other people managers preferred.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, with creative marketing and communication skills to engage and motivate customer advocates.
• Experience working with field marketing, sales, and partners.
• Ability to collaborate in a highly matrixed environment with stakeholders at all levels of management.
• Ability to work effectively with senior leaders across multiple time zones.
• Ability to balance and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

The Advocacy Manager creates and executes product advocacy plans via cross-functional global and regional teams, leading policy task forces at the brand or molecule level and identifying roadblocks that limit the full utilisation of Corteva's crop protection portfolio to support existing and new product approvals. Reporting to leadership and coordinating efforts across Business Portfolio and Marketing Managers, Regulatory Managers, and Government and Industry Affairs Leaders, this role provides political insights and communicates analysis of policy and regulatory developments to enable a favourable regulatory environment and technology acceptance for the portfolio.

Performance Expectations

• Establishes, leads, and coordinates product advocacy plans via cross-functional teams, including global and regional teams.
• Regularly liaises with all relevant internal stakeholders on product advocacy matters.
• Engages externally with all relevant stakeholders to support advocacy objectives and maintain strategic relationships.
• Manages relationships and engagement with external contracted advocacy support.
• Provides political insights and expertise and communicates analysis of policy and regulatory developments relevant to the current and future success of the portfolio.
• Identifies roadblocks for the business and develops plans to address them.
• Leads solutions management for unknown or unplanned issues, creating task force teams with defined timelines to overcome significant business hurdles.
• Leads policy task forces at the brand or molecule level.
• Identifies and executes process improvements to reduce friction in issues management and increase the effectiveness of solutions.
• Creates opportunities to remove regulatory and policy hurdles that limit the full utilisation of the crop protection portfolio.

Experience & Qualifications

• Master's degree (MBA or M.Sc.) with a minimum of 7–10 years of experience in agriculture-related industry sectors.
• Extensive knowledge of business processes, product positioning, and the competitive landscape.
• Demonstrated experience working with government policymakers to advocate policies and positions, with experience effectively leading coalitions to achieve timely results.
• Ability to analyse, assess, and critically evaluate diverse commercial and research and development audiences on local advocacy options to meet objectives.
• Demonstrated competency in distilling and communicating complex information to diverse external audiences.
• Experienced crisis management leader with a demonstrated negotiation mindset and the ability to develop convincing narratives and approaches.
• Strong communication and public speaking skills, with experience communicating with diverse internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership, legal, public affairs, government relations, value chain customers, government policymakers, and community members.
• Ability to effectively prioritise competing needs and synthesise complex issues into clear and actionable work plans.
• Strong project planning and writing skills, including the ability to produce positioning papers and other strategic documents.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally, with intensity varying throughout the year.

Embedded within the Product Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, and Sonar Community teams, the Advocacy Manager manages, maintains, and supports the growth of customer advocates through community, engagement, and social proof platforms to drive loyalty, adoption, and advocacy. Working closely with Sales, Product Marketing, and Demand Generation teams, this role generates content with customer advocates, identifies and wins customer references for use in deals, and enables the organisation to amplify the voice of the customer across marketing campaigns, analyst relations, and speaking engagements.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and support the growth of customer advocates through community, engagement, and social proof platforms.
• Identify and source new customer reviews with third-party sites like Gartner Peer Insights, G2 Crowd, Capterra, etc.
• Define, launch, and manage forums such as customer advisory boards.
• Develop and build relationships with customer champions, engaging them throughout their customer journey.
• Generate content with the customer advocates for use on the SonarSource website, in marketing campaigns, sales enablement programs, social channels, and other initiatives.
• Identify and win customer references for use in deals.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product Marketing & Demand Generation to promote and repurpose customer stories (quotes, videos, blog posts, and case studies) across multiple communication channels to increase awareness and drive inbound leads.
• Support analyst relations, media relations, and events teams in securing spokespersons for interviews, assessments, speaking engagements, panels, workshops, and conference participation.
• Establish success metrics for the customer advocacy function.
• Continuously monitor and analyze the results and make improvements accordingly.

Technical Qualifications

• 3+ years of customer marketing experience, preferably with running customer reference programs, feedback programs, third-party review sites, and advocacy community groups.
• Familiarity and experience with Techvalidate, Influitive, or similar platforms preferred.
• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, visual), both for internal audiences and customer-facing messaging.
• Customer-centric and experience serving as the voice of the customer.
• Team player with proven success collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills and executive presence.
• Flexibility and adaptability to the changing needs of customers and the business.
• Strong project management skills; results-focused with impactful execution and follow-through; highly detail-oriented.

The Regulatory Affairs Advocacy Manager coordinates strategies to engage and influence policy and regulations related to the organisation's priority circular economy advocacy objectives, writing legislative and regulatory text and directing a multi-functional team in advocating for favourable treatment across different regulatory environments. Reporting to the Federal Government Affairs Manager and partnering with business, communications, legal, manufacturing, and technology teams, this role manages external resources across multiple states and enables Eastman's Government Affairs team to advance its circular economy initiatives at the state and federal levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and executes strategies to engage and influence policy and regulations related to the organisation's priority circular economy advocacy objectives.
• Manages cross-functional relationships within and across business, communications, legal, manufacturing, and technology teams.
• Connects with stakeholders to understand their needs and motivations to solve problems.
• Understands different regulatory environments and directs a multi-functional team in advocating for favourable treatment.
• Writes legislative and regulatory text.
• Manages external resources serving a variety of roles across multiple states.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years of state or federal legislative, policy, or regulatory experience.
• Demonstrated experience creating advocacy strategies, including research, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Demonstrated excellence in verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience working with social media and creating social media strategies.
• Demonstrated experience leading and contributing to cross-functional projects and collaborating at all levels of an organisation and across geographies.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and team orientation, with the ability to influence and negotiate within a matrixed organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in crisis communications.
• High degree of integrity and confidentiality.
• Competency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and Excel.
• Willingness to travel, with approximately 30% travel required.

Sitting at the intersection of developer community management and platform strategy, the Advocacy Manager guides a worldwide community of over 5,000 advocates by building meetup groups, hacker houses, and educational communities in cities around the world while integrating that community into educational, outreach, and content marketing efforts. Operating across product, marketing, and engineering teams and reporting to the Head of Developer Relations, this role uses industry knowledge to define strategies for different developer markets and ensures developers have access to the best tooling, education materials, and support systems available.

Core Functions

• Grows a worldwide community of over 5,000 advocates building meetup groups, hacker houses, and educational communities in cities around the world.
• Integrates that community into educational, outreach, and content marketing efforts.
• Ensures that developers seeking to build on the platform have access to the best tooling, education materials, and support systems available.
• Proactively engages with the developer community to promote the platform via events, trainings, webinars, and hackathons.
• Defines, tracks, and reports on goals and success metrics for the team's performance and impact.
• Uses industry knowledge to help the team build strategies for different developer markets.
• Collaborates with product, marketing, and engineering teams to align strategies and priorities.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Previous experience in community management or developer advocacy essential.
• Deep familiarity with the developer world, including the challenges developers face and the ability to empathise with them.
• Strong understanding of developer advocacy and how it fits into a broader platform strategy, with experience in developer relations or a similar field.
• Experience in defining strategies and measuring performance against them.
• Ability to navigate and collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders, including product managers, engineers, and marketing teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to adjust messaging for different audiences.