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Director, State & Local Gov't Affairs

Eaton · Henrico, VA · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteOTHR$165k–$242k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes a job summary, responsibilities, qualifications, additional info (pay, benefits, schedule?). We must not repeat job title as heading. Use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include only sections with real specific content. We have: - Job Summary: could be "About the role" (or "Job Summary"). Use About the role heading. - Responsibilities: list of duties. - Qualifications: Education level required, Years And Area Of Experience Required, Preferred Qualifications. - Skills: maybe part of qualifications? Could combine but we can have Skills section if there are skill statements. The posting includes "Outstanding relationship building and communications skills.", "Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives...", "Ability to anticipate emerging issues...". Those are skills. So we could have Skills section. - Benefits: The posting mentions "competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs", "Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work." Also link to Eaton Benefits Overview. So we have benefits info. - Pay: The posting includes expected annual salary range $165,000 to $242,000 a year, variable incentive program. So we have Pay. - Schedule: Not mentioned (no schedule info). So omit Schedule. - Requirements: Could be the qualifications (education, experience). But we already have Qualifications section; maybe Requirements is for mandatory qualifications (education, years experience). We could split: Requirements (education, years experience) and Qualifications (preferred qualifications). But instructions: Use headings as given; we can include both if content exists. Let's decide: Requirements: Education level required: Bachelor's degree. Years And Area Of Experience Required: Minimum ten (10) years experience as a lobbyist and/or key staffer... That's specific. Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications list. Skills: we can extract skill statements. Benefits: as described. Pay: salary range. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, etc. Remove those. Also remove application instructions, cookie/navigation/legal, duplicated lines. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details exactly as given, but we can format as lists. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's extract substantive content: Job Summary paragraph: "The Director, State & Local Gov't Affairs leads and directs Eaton’s state and local government affairs strategy, developing and executing proactive engagement with government officials, monitoring regulatory and policy developments, and driving legislative and regulatory advocacy initiatives across Eaton’s U.S. operations. Serves as a trusted advisor to senior Eaton executives and aligns diverse stakeholder groups - including functional teams, plant management, business unit leaders, and subject matter experts - to represent the enterprise with senior-level external stakeholders. Develops innovative policy and advocacy solutions to complex business issues and manages external consulting firms and relevant trade associations to advance Eaton’s government affairs objectives across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring all engagement activities align with Eaton ethics, compliance, and anti‑corruption requirements. Partners with the VP, Government Affairs, Americas and Manager, Government Affairs, Americas on significant issues as needed. Key Eaton outcomes: Drive electrical sector market development and sales growth by influencing key policy and regulatory decisions that promote investment in utility and data center infrastructure and advance code adoption. Support Eaton’s U.S. capacity investment considerations by working with state and local economic development agencies. Mitigates enterprise risks by monitoring and engaging on policies related to tax, human resources, and environment, health, and sustainability." That's the job summary. Responsibilities list: bullet points from "Job Responsibilities". Let's extract each sentence ending with period. - Proactively identifies, prioritizes and manages key state/local public affairs issues (Key issues are those in which legislation or government regulation can impact sales or cost, including utility regulations and infrastructure, data center build-out, electrical code adoption, tax policy, and economic development programs). - Develops and executes strategy for engagement with state and local officials, building and maintaining working relationships that impact Eaton’s operations, customers, and markets. - Develops and executes Eaton’s state and local government engagement strategy across business units and functions, ensuring alignment and timely escalation when needed. - Creates innovative policy and advocacy solutions to complex business issues, translating legislative and regulatory developments into actionable strategies that protect and advance Eaton’s interests. - Manages and leverages external consulting firms and trade associations to support government affairs objectives; ensures scope, deliverables, and reporting align with Eaton priorities. - Leads Eaton’s “Key Contact Program,” connecting senior Eaton leaders with their elected officials. - Develops and executes Eaton’s “grassroots” lobbying strategy, including the manner in which we engage our employees on key issues. - Communicates effectively with internal Eaton stakeholders across all business and functional levels, aligning diverse stakeholder groups around shared government affairs priorities. - Partners with the VP, Government Affairs – Americas and Manager, Government Affairs – Americas on managing significant issues as needed. - Ensures compliance and integrity in all government engagement activities, including adherence to ethics, compliance, and anti‑corruption requirements; escalates concerns as appropriate. Qualifications (mandatory): Education level required: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. Years And Area Of Experience Required Minimum ten (10) years experience as a lobbyist and/or key staffer of statewide elected official, state legislator, trade association, or corporate government affairs role. Preferred Qualifications: list: - Understanding of how state governments can affect business operations. - Keen understanding of legislative and regulatory processes, utility regulatory experience is a plus. - Interest in and understanding of Eaton’s businesses, and the ability to function as a “bridge” between the regulatory/legislative arena and Eaton’s business environment. - Outstanding relationship building and communications skills. - Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and align diverse, cross-functional stakeholder groups around complex policy and advocacy priorities. - Ability to anticipate emerging issues and develop strategies to respond to them. Skills: Could be overlapping with preferred qualifications; but we can still have Skills section containing those skill statements: Outstanding relationship building and communications skills., Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and align diverse, cross-functional stakeholder groups around complex policy and advocacy priorities., Ability to anticipate emerging issues and develop strategies to respond to them. But to avoid duplication, maybe we just keep Skills as those statements. However the instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; not to invent or summarize away detail. If we put them in Skills and also in Preferred Qualifications, we would be duplicating content, which is okay as long as we preserve it. But better to avoid duplication? Not required but could be okay. However we might risk being considered redundant but not wrong. I'd rather keep them in Preferred Qualifications and not have a separate Skills section unless there are distinct skill statements not covered. The preferred qualifications already include those skill statements. So we could omit Skills section. Benefits: The posting includes: "At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees." Then later: "We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements." We need to preserve that substantive info. So we can put in Benefits section a paragraph summarizing that Eaton provides health and welfare benefits, retirement benefits, paid/unpaid time away programs, with note about eligibility factors. Pay: "The expected annual salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000 a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations." We need to keep that. Schedule: none. Additional Information: includes interview process, privacy, EEO, etc. We must remove boilerplate EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, accommodation request, etc. The instructions: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should strip out the sections about equal employment opportunities, second chance employment, accommodation request, etc. Also remove "All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process." That's maybe not boilerplate? It's about interview process; could be considered application instruction? It's part of hiring process but not exactly application instruction to apply. Might be considered boilerplate? The instruction says remove application instructions. That line is about interview process, not exactly how to apply. Might be okay to keep? Safer to remove it as it's part of hiring process details. However it's substantive? It's generic. I'd remove it. Also remove "All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws." That's privacy boilerplate; remove. Remove "At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent." That's part of benefits but we already captured benefits; we can keep the benefits description but maybe that sentence is generic; we can keep it as part of benefits. Remove "This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees." That's part of benefits/pay; we already have pay and benefits; we can keep. Remove "Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements." Keep as part of benefits. Remove "Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview." That's a link; we can keep as part of benefits? It's a reference; we can keep. Remove "The application window for this position is anticipated to close on October 13, 2026." That's application instruction? It's a date; maybe keep as additional info? Not a heading; we could include in a short paragraph under Additional Information? But we are not making an Additional Information section unless we have content. Could add a short paragraph under a generic "Additional Information" heading? But we only have predefined headings; we could add a

after sections for misc info like application window. However the instruction says use headings only for those sections; we can still have

elements outside headings for misc info. The instruction: "Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it." So we can have a

    for minor metadata like application window. So we can include a

    after sections for that. Also remove EEO etc. Thus final HTML: sections:

    About the role

    Job summary paragraph.

    Responsibilities

    • ... each responsibility.

    Requirements

    Education level required: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.

    Years And Area Of Experience Required: Minimum ten (10) years experience as a lobbyist and/or key staffer of statewide elected official, state legislator, trade association, or corporate government affairs role.

    Qualifications

    • Understanding of how state governments can affect business operations.
    • Keen understanding of legislative and regulatory processes, utility regulatory experience is a plus.
    • Interest

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