Legislative Associate

4 weeks ago

Sacramento, California, United States Association of California School Administrators Full time
Job Summary

The Legislative Associate supports the Association of California School Administrators' (ACSA) advocacy efforts by conducting research, analyzing legislation, and assisting in the development and implementation of advocacy strategies. This role involves collaboration with internal teams and external partners to advance the organization's legislative agenda and support members.

Key Responsibilities
  • Conduct in-depth research and analysis of current and proposed state legislation
  • Prepare concise summaries for internal and external communication to inform advocacy efforts and strategic decision-making
  • Analyze legislative proposals to assess their potential impact on members and student outcomes, helping identify and prioritize key advocacy issues
  • Collaborate with the Governmental Relations team and organizational leadership to develop and implement advocacy strategies aimed at advancing legislative goals
  • Develop materials, such as background documents and FAQs, to enhance the team's advocacy efforts
  • Build and maintain relationships with key partners, including member associations, other advocacy organizations, and capitol staff to coordinate joint campaigns and advance shared legislative goals
  • Develop and draft policy proposals informed by ACSA member feedback and research findings
  • Support lobbying efforts by preparing advocates for meetings with legislators and preparing and providing advocacy materials
  • Support communication with members about legislative developments and opportunities for engagement
  • Assist in organizing member engagement activities, including ACSA's annual lobby days event
  • Represent ACSA at meetings, hearings, and conferences
  • Participate in coalitions to coordinate joint advocacy efforts on key issues and promoting ACSA's legislative agenda with partners
  • Monitor legislative activities, tracking key bills and developments relevant to the organization's interests
  • Maintain a system to track and analyze proposed legislation
  • Serve as staff support to assigned ACSA council(s), providing direct member support to council(s) leadership and members
  • Prepare varied department materials from drafts or by generating original content and serve as reviewer for other GR team member documents as requested
  • Assist with GR/ACSA events as necessary
  • May assist department with administrative tasks as necessary
Working Conditions

This role requires frequent sitting, standing, walking, talking, and hearing in a standard office setting. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision to read printed materials and a computer screen with ability to adjust focus. Position entails repetitive hand movements required for work on a computer keyboard, telephone, copier, and other office equipment. Occasional reaching, twisting, and packing materials may be required. May occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Infrequent travel may be required by land or air.

Requirements
  • Knowledge of the California legislative process
  • Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook; Adobe Suite; Google Drive; bill tracking software, and web-based databases
  • Organization, procedures, and operating details related to governmental relations
  • Record-keeping principles and procedures
  • English usage, spelling, and capitalization, and sentence structure
  • Business letter writing
Qualifications
  • Understand the organization of the Association and its relationship to outside agencies as necessary to assume assigned responsibilities
  • Work independently, set priorities, and exercise independent judgment
  • Multi-task and work with time-sensitive deadlines
  • Analyze situations carefully and implement effective courses of action
  • Interpret and apply program policies and procedures
  • Exhibit strong human relations skills to maintain confidential information
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with members of the association, the general public, other staff, and work as a team member
  • Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
  • Accurately type
  • Learn new software, such as Google Drive and website content management tools
  • Compile detailed information, maintain extensive records, and prepare reports in an organized and timely fashion
Experience, Training, and Education

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

  • Minimum of two years of progressively responsible administrative and legislative support work
  • Experience in an educational setting comparable to the area of assignment and management of clerical staff preferred

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution preferred. Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

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