Associate Director, Government Affairs

2 weeks ago

Washington, United States Mgma-acmpe Full time

**General Purpose**:
The Associate Director, Government Affairs is responsible for lobbying both United States Congress and the Administration on behalf of Association interests and works with stakeholders including specialty societies to further Association advocacy goals. This position also oversees a number of federal health policy issues including but not limited to health information technology and Medicare value-based care.

**Essential Functions**:

- Advocates on behalf of the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) interests with Congress and the federal administration.
- Proactively identifies federal policy issues impacting MGMA members in the areas of physician payment and quality, both legislative and regulatory in nature.
- Works with stakeholders to further Association advocacy goals.
- Analyzes regulations and legislation pertaining to medical group practices to identify areas of concern to members.
- Creates educational tools, articles, and comment letters to inform MGMA members and Congress of the impacts of federal regulations and legislation on medical practices.
- Establishes relationships with stakeholders, including specialty societies to further Association advocacy goals.
- Gives presentations on advocacy issues at MGMA national and state conferences as well as internal constituencies (Government Affairs Committee, Board of Directors).
- Represents the Government Affairs department with external stakeholders, and on internal MGMA workgroups and cross departmental collaborative initiatives.
- Other duties as required and necessary to ensure the success of the organization.

**Supervisory duties**:

- None.

**Knowledge, skills, and abilities**:

- Ability to consistently promote, support, work, and act in a manner in support of MGMAs mission, vision, and values.
- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and respond to unpredictable daily requests.
- Ability to work independently or collaboratively and adapt to changing priorities.
- Strong speaking, writing, and presentation skills.
- Excellent analytical skills, ability to understand complex regulations and legislation.
- Strong knowledge of the healthcare industry and of physician practice operations.
- Deep understanding of the political process, including legislative and regulatory processes.
- Strong understanding of federal legislative and regulatory issues and how they may affect our members and the Associations positioning.
- Ability to respond calmly to stressful and sensitive situations.

**Education**:

- A Bachelors degree in political science or related field is required.
- A Masters degree preferred.
- Juris Doctorate degree preferred.

**Experience**:

- Six (6) or more years experience in government affairs, advocacy, and health policy is required.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted on a year for year basis.

**Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications**:

- Must have reliable transportation.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.

**Working environment**:

- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions._
- Work is generally performed in an indoor, professional office environment.
- This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers.
- Will need to attend state and federal government and health care conferences in various locations around the United States on a regular basis.
- Regular, predictable attendance is required.

**Physical Activities**:

- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by employees in this role, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions._
- While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly required to successfully interact and accurately exchange information using the following suite of verbal and non-verbal communication skills critical to expressing oneself and conducting professional interactions on behalf of the business:

- Ability to read, write, edit
- Ability to converse, discuss, convey
- While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly required to successfully navigate scenarios requiring the following observational abilities:

- Ability to perceive, identify, recognize
- Ability to detect, determine, discern, judge
- Ability to assess, estimate, compare
- This is a largely sedentary role, so employee must be able to remain in a sedentary position while focusing for extended periods of time throughout the workday. Position also requires occasional movement inside the office to access file cabinets, printers, etc. While performing the duties of this job, employee is regularly

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