JOBS: POLICY ADVOCATE - LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICES

http://www.lirs.org/DonateServe/employment/PolicyAdvocate.htm

Position Opening:
Policy Advocate

Reporting Relationship
Director for Legislative Affairs

Position Objective
To carry out LIRS’s legislative advocacy efforts in collaboration with the director for legislative affairs and other LIRS staff, and to ground LIRS’s legislative advocacy in its service experience.

Qualifications include...

1. Commitment to LIRS’s core mission and values and an ability to model those values in relationship with colleagues, and partners; commitment to refugees and immigrants
2. Bachelor’s degree required; relevant graduate work or degree, including law, preferred
3. Knowledge of legislative and regulatory processes
4. Strong ability to master substantive subject matter, implement legislative strategies, and work independently and under pressure
5. Skills in synthesizing and communicating complex legislative issues and processes to grassroots networks, local agencies, churches and coalitions
6. Excellent oral and written communication skills
7. Skills in maintaining and nurturing collegial relationships with congressional staff, coalition partners and Lutheran partners
8. Familiarity with nonprofit advocacy work
9. Ability to work within a faith-based organization and to communicate with churches, clergy and congregations
10. Knowledge of migration and refugee issues highly preferred
11. Successful advocacy campaign experience preferred
12. Willingness and ability to travel occasionally—domestically or internationally

Responsibilities include...

1. Implement LIRS advocacy strategies on specific legislative migration and refugee issues in close collaboration with the director for legislative affairs.
2. Represent LIRS legislative policies and positions to Congress, LIRS constituencies and networks, and the public using strategies designed with the director for legislative affairs and other appropriate staff.
3. Contribute to establishing LIRS advocacy strategies on specific legislative migration and refugee issues in close collaboration with the director for legislative affairs and other appropriate staff.
4. Work with Director for Legislative Affairs and other appropriate staff to develop written materials, legislative analyses, syntheses, action alerts and updates to engage LIRS constituencies and networks in advocacy campaigns.
5. Work cooperatively with LIRS staff, other national groups and coalitions to implement joint advocacy strategies and plans.
6. Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Relationships
None

Send cover letter, including salary requirements, and résumé to...

Human Resources Department
LIRS
700 Light Street
Baltimore MD 21230
FAX: 410/230-2844
hrmail@lirs.org
No telephone inquiries, please.

Salary and Terms
This full-time position, based at LIRS’s Washington, D.C., office, is subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act. The salary, provisionally-assigned grade level 23, is negotiable and commensurate with experience. An excellent benefit package is offered.



Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, age, disability, national origin, race, veteran status or any other status protected by federal or Maryland law. Upon hire, employees must provide proof of legal eligibility to work in the United States. The employees of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service shall carry out the duties to which they are assigned in faithfulness to the mission of the agency.