Job description
Job title:
Policy Coordinator
Location:
Washington, DC (Potential Remote)
Terms:
Reports to:
Full Time Temporary
Director of Policy and Advocacy
About us:
The American Forest Foundation (AFF) unlocks the power of family forests as a climate solution while helping thousands of landowners care for their land and improve forest health. Through its Family Forest Carbon Program, AFF expands access to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners from all walks of life while producing high quality forest carbon credits to help companies reach their net zero goals. The organization’s strategic direction seeks to enable family forests to capture and store one billion tonnes of carbon by 2050.
We do not do this alone. AFF works across a broad coalition of conservation partners, corporations, and policymakers to equip family forest owners with financial and technical support to implement sustainable forest management practices on their lands and activate their forests as a critical tool in the fight against climate change.
AFF is in a mode of complex problem solving and rapid iteration. All teams at AFF are working to discover solutions to the planet’s most pressing climate issues through developing and iterating viable and scalable models for impact. AFF is driven by values of our shared purpose, measurable and verifiable results, and learning for continuous improvement to tackle big conservation challenges.
About the Role:
The American Forest Foundation seeks a highly motivated candidate to assist the AFF Policy Team with advocacy efforts at the state and federal level and provide the Vice President, Policy and Advocacy and team with essential administrative support. The Policy Coordinator is responsible for assisting the team in grassroots advocacy and administrative functions that supports our forest carbon and conservation work to help family woodland owners sustainably manage their forests to ensure clean water, support quality wildlife habitat, and stimulate local economies.
The Policy Coordinator will work with the Policy Team to advance AFF’s grassroots advocacy by working with landowners in our place‐based conservation projects and the American Tree Farm System (ATFS), a network of 74,000 landowners, to elevate their voices and impact on issues that promote stewardship. This is a temporary assignment and is expected to end mid-August.
Responsibilities:
- Provide general administrative support including meeting scheduling and logistics, travel support, and expense handling, to members of the policy team as appropriate.
- Support grassroots outreach programs and policy fly-ins; including responsibility for all logistics, planning, and registration.
- Monitor Federal Register and Congressional Record for items related to our policy work
- Drafting and assembly of collateral for Capitol Hill and coalition outreach, newsletters, and other communications.
- Logging of meeting notes from interactions with congressional and administration officials.
- Assist in the development of contracts and sub-awards.
- Prepare presentations, accomplishment reports, and correspondence
- Monitor and track issues and events
- Other duties as assigned
Candidate requirements:
What’s attractive to the right candidate:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university required and background or experience in environmental science, forestry, communication or marketing desired but not required.
- At least 1 year of experience
- Expertise in coordinating logistics for meetings and/or events
- Experience with content management systems, HTML, and social media preferred.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Experience in planning for and arranging meetings, desired
- Experience in making travel arrangements for staff and volunteers, desired
- Demonstrated ability to support program staff with administrative and logistical needs
- Proven track record of providing prompt and courteous service
- Experience working effectively with volunteers and staff, desired
- A sound work ethic with the ability to act both independently and as part of a team
- Strong initiative; a self-starter with tenacity, resilience, and high energy
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with a wide variety of constituencies, including co-workers, business and community leaders, partners, donors, board members, volunteers, public officials, and the public at large, in a wide variety of settings
- A client service orientation
- Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to effectively plan and problem solve
- Time management skills, with the ability to prioritize, coordinate and manage multiple priorities
- Ability and willingness to travel as needed.
- We are a high energy, passionate group of advocates who are always looking for policy opportunities to have the greatest impact. You’ll join a team that works collaboratively, is always willing to lend a hand, and values getting it done.
- Your contributions and leadership will be appreciated. Our staff is passionate, dedicated, and good at what they do and will be deeply appreciative of your efforts to create and preserve an environment that is both fun and fair.
- We offer a flexible work environment that respects your life outside of work.
- Salary is commensurate with experience.
- The ideal candidate will be based in at our Washington, DC national headquarters.
Contact us to apply
We know there are great candidates who may not check all these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that applies to you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
https://www.forestfoundation.org/who-we-are/people/careers/
We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.
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