Posted by: National Youth Employment Coalition
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
The National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) seeks a dedicated professional to assist with the Coalition's public policy efforts. The Policy Analyst will report to the Executive Director. Established in 1979, NYEC is a national non-partisan network of youth employment/development organizations that improves the effectiveness of organizations that seek to help youth become productive citizens. To learn more about NYEC, visit www.nyec.org.
The Policy Analyst will be an integral member of NYEC's team, making critical contributions to NYEC's policy and advocacy efforts. The position provides a tremendous opportunity to help policy makers, youth programs, and others improve options for youth and to interact with a variety of organizations involved in youth development, workforce development, and education across the nation.
Responsibilities include:
- Tracking and analyzing relevant federal and select state legislation and policy as well as state and local implementation of significant federal initiatives
- Writing monthly legislative updates and assisting with articles or reports on policy-related research, trends, and developments
- Assisting with representation of NYEC on Capitol Hill, with the Administration, at meetings of other national organizations and at state and local conferences
- Assisting with national grassroots advocacy efforts and collaboration with other advocacy entities
- Providing staff support to NYEC's Policy and Legislative Working Group
- Preparing and disseminating legislative and advocacy alerts to NYEC members
- Updating and managing the policy portions of the NYEC web site
- Coordinating the policy related portions of NYEC meetings and conferences
- Responding to member inquires about youth development, workforce development, and education policy issues
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in related field /Master's Degree a plus
- 3-5 years of relevant professional experience
- Strong writing, oral communication, and analytical skills
- Knowledge of and interest in negotiating the federal legislative process
- Knowledge and interest in workforce development and education policy
- Experience with youth serving-organizations and policy analysis
- Experience and interest in state policy issues pertaining to youth a plus
- Interest and experience working with collaborations and partnership networks
- Superior attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks
- Motivated self-starter, team-oriented, and flexible
- Enthusiasm, positive attitude, and sense of humor.
- Proficiency and knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) required; HTML editing and desktop publishing software a plus.
Hours: 9:00am – 5:30pm
03 Jan, 2012-
Source: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/c5Nmj3HhHjjd/
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