Advocacy and Policy Coordinator

4 days ago

Washington, Washington, D.C., United States The American Psychiatric Association Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and organized individual to join our team as a Practice Advancement Coordinator. This role will provide administrative support to the Chief and staff of the Division of Advocacy, Policy, and Practice Advancement (APPA). The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating various activities, managing calendars, and providing executive support.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide administrative assistance and coordination of activities within the APPA Division, including managing and maintaining daily and long-range division calendar; arranging appointments, meetings, conference calls; planning and coordinating travel, planning itineraries, and facilitating reimbursement requests; and coordinating with various APA Administration to gather appropriate background materials for meetings.
  • Coordinate the Division's quarterly report to the APA and APAF Boards, ensuring timely request for brief reports from assigned staff, collating reports into the final documents, and ensuring timely submission of reports.
  • Serve as Web Liaison for the division, working with the IT department to troubleshoot problems, reviewing website on a regular basis to add/edit current pages, fix broken links, and providing input on redesign.
  • Communicate with APA members to keep them informed of APPA activities, responding to numerous phone and written inquiries from APA members regarding APA's and other significant advocacy issues, legislative and regulatory efforts, distributing various types of literature (congressional testimony and studies) either from e-mail, phone or mail requests, and working with other APA Departments to supply information to distribute to members about the APA's advocacy efforts.
  • Provide administrative support for division conferences, including but not limited to assistance with marketing & communications materials; registration preparation & management, travel logistics & tracking, assistance in the production of leave behind packets and participant packets and compilation of printed materials; and follow-up activities, materials development and events coordination.
  • Provide administrative services to APPA councils, committees, and boards as needed, attending relevant meetings, including Staff Liaison meetings, ensuring APPA staff meet responsibilities to APA governance, including those related to presidential appointments to councils, committees, and boards, maintaining rosters and email lists, and various governance deadlines/requests such as timely review of action papers, Javits award nominations, and other relevant items.
Requirements
  • High school diploma required, Bachelor's degree preferred. Three or more years of related professional work experience supporting a senior level leader.
  • Project management and special events planning experience highly preferred.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
  • Excellent proofreading, editing and document preparation skills.
  • Experience with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and other office software.
  • Self-guided and a self-starter with exceptional organizational skills and the ability to work quickly and independently in a virtual work environment, meeting precise deadlines.
  • Ability to interact with staff (at all levels) in a fast-paced environment, sometimes under pressure, remaining flexible, proactive, resourceful and efficient.
  • Able to execute decision making with sound judgment and discretion and maintain a high-level of confidentiality.
  • Demonstrated proficiency in information gathering and information monitoring.

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