Government Relations Assistant

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates daily administrative and operational projects for Government Relations team.
• Maintains calendars, schedules travel arrangements, and prepares and submits expense reports.
• Captures professional staff to ensure NRECA representation at various meetings and conferences.
• Assists the Government Relations team with policy work, providing analysis and feedback of pending regulatory action.
• Conducts research on regulatory topics of interest to electric cooperative members.
• Plans and coordinates unit meetings with others in Association and with external audiences.
• Prepares agendas, coordinates logistics, reserving meeting rooms, ensuring appropriate set ups, ensuring that appropriate people are attending, audio visuals, and food and beverage.
• Develops draft presentations, edits and refines PowerPoint presentations and handouts for meetings and assembles materials to be distributed for the meetings.
• Maintains ongoing knowledge of NRECA issues, department work priorities and resolutions and supports and participates in Regional and Annual meetings as assigned.
• Acts as staff resource for technical support and skills development for new administrative staff.
• Supports and participates in assigned annual conferences as applicable, including staffing registration area, participating in preparation of materials and other duties as assigned.
• Completes administrative processes required for all stages and aspects of assigned annual conferences, as applicable based on assigned unit.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED
• 2+ years of work or leadership experience with progressive levels of responsibility
• 1+ year of experience in government relations or as an administrative assistant working for mid-to-upper level executives

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Experience working in an advocacy organization, on Capitol Hill or the Administration desired