Government Relations Manager
- items under Responsibilities. For Requirements/Qualifications/Skills, there is no explicit list; we should not create those sections if no specific content. Benefits, Pay, Schedule: schedule is mentioned: full-time, expected to work in person at least four days each five-day workweek. That's schedule info. So we can create a Schedule section with that detail. Benefits: none. Pay: none.
About the role: we could have a short paragraph summarizing the role. The posting includes a Summary paragraph. That could go under About the role.
Thus sections: About the role (p), Responsibilities (ul), Schedule (p maybe). Possibly also Requirements? Not present.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So only those.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. We need to keep details from the posting. However turning paragraphs into list items may be summarizing but we need to preserve meaning. We can break each sentence into list items? Might be okay as long as we don't lose detail. We'll try to capture key points.
Let's extract About the role: The summary: "Legal Action of Wisconsin is seeking an experienced government-relations professional to build stronger, sustained relationships between Legal Action and Wisconsin and policymakers—and to help secure something Wisconsin civil legal aid urgently needs: meaningful state investment in our work. This is a highly relational position. Success will not come from appearing at the Capitol only when the biennial budget is moving or when a particular bill affects our clients. The Government Relations Manager must become a trusted and familiar presence in Wisconsin’s policymaking community: someone legislators, staff, executive-branch officials, and other government leaders know, see regularly, and understand as a reliable source of information about civil legal aid, the people we serve, and the effect that state policy has on their constituents."
We can put that as a
under About the role. Responsibilities: The posting has "Key Responsibilities" with several bullet-like paragraphs. Let's list them: - State Funding and Government Relations Lead Legal Action’s strategy to secure, maintain, and expand state investment in civil legal aid, with particular responsibility for building support for funding Legal Action’s work. - Develop and implement a government-relations strategy that operates year-round, not only during the biennial state budget process or legislative sessions. - Build and maintain meaningful relationships with legislators from both parties, legislative staff, executive-branch officials, agency personnel, and other policymakers whose work affects Legal Action, our clients, or civil legal aid. - Maintain a regular and visible presence at the State Capitol and within Wisconsin’s Madison-based government-relations and policymaking community. - Ensure that policymakers understand what Legal Action does, whom we serve, the problems our clients face, and how Legal Action’s work benefits residents of their districts and communities. - Develop opportunities for legislators and other policymakers to learn about Legal Action’s work through meetings, office visits, community events, briefings, and other appropriate engagement. - Develop and maintain relationships outside the Capitol and outside the legislative session, including arranging and participating in in-district meetings and other off-cycle engagement with policymakers. - Work with Legal Action leadership, program staff, and the External Relations Department to identify compelling data, client experiences, program results, and other information that demonstrates the impact and value of civil legal aid. - Monitor developments affecting potential state funding and identify opportunities, risks, decision-makers, and strategies early enough for Legal Action to respond effectively. - Congressional Relations and Federal Funding Education: Work with members of Legal Action’s Leadership Team to develop and maintain productive relationships with Wisconsin’s members of Congress and their staffs. - Help members of Congress and Congressional staff understand Legal Action’s work, the communities and constituents we serve, and the importance of federal resources to the delivery of civil legal aid in Wisconsin. - Communicate clearly and credibly about how Legal Action responsibly stewards federal funds and the services, outcomes, and community impact those resources make possible. - Help develop and coordinate meetings, briefings, office visits, community visits, and other appropriate opportunities for members of Congress and their staffs to learn about Legal Action’s work. - Work with Legal Action leadership, Finance, program staff, and other employees to ensure that information provided to Congressional offices about federal funding, program performance, services, and outcomes is accurate and useful. - Conduct Congressional education and relationship-building in compliance with the restrictions applicable to Legal Action’s federal funding. Legal Action does not lobby Congress. - Legislative and Public Policy Engagement: Monitor proposed legislation, administrative rules, budget provisions, and other governmental developments that may significantly affect Legal Action’s clients, services, funding, or ability to provide legal assistance. - Develop sufficient knowledge of Legal Action’s major areas of practice to recognize when proposed legislative or administrative changes may have significant consequences for our clients or our work. - Work closely with Legal Action attorneys and other subject-matter experts to understand and accurately explain the practical effects of proposed laws, regulations, and public policies on the people we serve. - When legally permissible and appropriately requested by a policymaker, coordinate Legal Action’s response and provide clear, accurate, useful information about how proposed changes may affect low-income Wisconsinites, Legal Action’s clients, or the delivery of civil legal aid. - Connect policymakers with the appropriate Legal Action attorneys, advocates, leaders, data, or other resources when specialized substantive expertise is needed. - Keep Legal Action leadership and appropriate employees informed of significant legislative, regulatory, budget, and policy developments. - Participate in statewide access-to-justice, legal-aid, and other coalitions and partnerships when doing so advances Legal Action’s mission and government-relations objectives. - Legislative and Lobbying Compliance: Ensure that Legal Action’s legislative, lobbying, rulemaking, Congressional education, and related government-relations activities comply with applicable Legal Services Corporation restrictions, funding restrictions, Wisconsin lobbying requirements, Legal Action policies, and other applicable laws and regulations. - Maintain a strong working knowledge of what Legal Action may and may not do in legislative, lobbying, rulemaking, Congressional education, and related government-relations activities; provide practical guidance to employees; and enforce applicable restrictions when necessary. - Help employees distinguish among permissible education and information-sharing, restricted lobbying activity, responses to policymaker requests, state-funding advocacy, Congressional education, and other forms of government engagement. - Develop, maintain, and communicate clear procedures for review, approval, documentation, and reporting of legislative and lobbying activity. - Provide regular training and guidance to employees whose work may involve policymakers, legislation, administrative rules, or government advocacy. - Maintain the documentation and information necessary for required lobbying, legislative-activity, and funder reports and ensure that required reports are accurate and timely. - Coordinate with the Chief External Relations Officer and other Legal Action leadership when questions arise regarding whether a proposed activity is permissible. - External Relations Collaboration: Work closely with the Chief External Relations Officer and other members of the External Relations Department to integrate government relations with Legal Action’s broader external-relations strategy. - Collaborate with the Annual Fund Manager and Major Gifts staff member when relationships, events, communications, or information about Legal Action (cut off). The posting cuts off at "Legal Ac". Probably incomplete. We'll ignore incomplete. We need to preserve all substantive information; we can include those as list items. Schedule: The posting says: "This is a full-time, FLSA-exempt position based in Madison. Because relationship-building and visibility are fundamental responsibilities of the position, this is not primarily a remote government-relations role. The Manager is expected to work in person at least four days during each five-day workweek, including substantial time at the State Capitol, legislative and government offices, Legal Action’s Madison office, and other government, community, and job-related meetings and events." Thus schedule: full-time, expected in-person at least 4 days per 5-day workweek. We'll put that in a
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We should not include Benefits, Pay, etc. Make sure we preserve all details; we need to be careful not to lose any. Let's craft the About the role paragraph exactly as the summary but maybe we can keep it as is. Now Responsibilities: we need to break each bullet into list items. Ensure we keep the details. Let's list them precisely: 1. State Funding and Government Relations Lead Legal Action’s strategy to secure, maintain, and expand state investment in civil legal aid, with particular responsibility for building support for funding Legal Action’s work. 2. Develop and implement a government-relations strategy that operates year-round, not only during the biennial state budget process or legislative sessions. 3. Build and maintain meaningful relationships with legislators from both parties, legislative staff, executive-branch officials, agency personnel, and other policymakers whose work affects Legal Action, our clients, or civil legal aid. 4. Maintain a regular and visible presence at the State Capitol and within Wisconsin’s Madison-based government-relations and policymaking community. 5. Ensure that policymakers understand what Legal Action does, whom we serve, the problems our clients face, and how Legal Action’s work benefits residents of their districts and communities. 6. Develop opportunities for legislators and other policymakers to learn about Legal Action’s work through meetings, office visits, community events, briefings, and other appropriate engagement. 7. Develop and maintain relationships outside the Capitol and outside the legislative session, including arranging and participating in in-district meetings and other off-cycle engagement with policymakers. 8. Work with Legal Action leadership, program staff, and the External Relations Department to identify compelling data, client experiences, program results, and other information that demonstrates the impact and value of civil legal aid. 9. Monitor developments affecting potential state funding and identify opportunities, risks, decision-makers, and strategies early enough for Legal Action to respond effectively. 10. Work with members of Legal Action’s Leadership Team to develop and maintain productive relationships with Wisconsin’s members of Congress and their staffs. 11. Help members of Congress and Congressional staff understand Legal Action’s work, the communities and constituents we serve, and the importance of federal resources to the delivery of civil legal aid in Wisconsin. 12. Communicate clearly and credibly about how Legal Action responsibly stewards federal funds and the services, outcomes, and community impact those resources make possible. 13. Help develop and coordinate meetings, briefings, office visits, community visits, and other appropriate opportunities for members of Congress and their staffs to learn about Legal Action’s work. 14. Work with Legal Action leadership, Finance, program staff, and other employees to ensure that information provided to Congressional offices about federal funding, program performance, services, and outcomes is accurate and useful. 15. Conduct Congressional education and relationship-building in compliance with the restrictions applicable to Legal Action’s federal funding. Legal Action does not lobby Congress. 16. Monitor proposed legislation, administrative rules, budget provisions, and other governmental developments that may significantly affect Legal Action’s clients
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