Policy and Advocacy Manager
for each heading. Use - for lists. Use
for prose. Do not repeat job title. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, EEO, etc. Keep substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- At the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, we believe access to nutritious food is a basic human need... (mission statement). Could be part of About the role? Actually "About the role" maybe includes description of role: "We are seeking a Policy and Advocacy Manager to enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice to build brighter futures through community and policy engagement. Reporting to the CEO, the Policy and Advocacy Manager will collaborate across various teams of the food bank to advocate for policies that support neighbors facing food insecurity. The Policy and Advocacy Manager will help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers and oversee an issue portfolio that is predominantly focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia."
- Strong candidates... etc.
- Required Qualifications list bullet points.
- The role is onsite and based in either our Verona or Charlottesville office and reports to the CEO.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager role is full-time and offers a collaborative work environment, excellent and affordable health, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid time off (including a week between the Christmas and New Year's holidays), and a remote/work-from-home option of 1 day per week (4 per month). Regular travel across the BRAFB geographic region in Western and Central VA, with occasional day trips and/or overnight travel to areas outside the BRAFB region including Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and other US locations (e.g., for Feeding America conferences) is required. Travel outside the BRAFB region is estimated at a level of 15-20 days per year.
- The hiring range is $65,000 to $72,000 annualized.
- Application instructions: submit cover letter & resume to email or mail. Should be removed (application instructions). Also "position will be open until filled" and "To learn more about the Food Bank, visit www.brafb.org." Should be removed.
- About The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank paragraph: description of organization. Could be placed under "About the role"? Actually we have separate "About the role" heading for role description; we could also have an "About the organization" but not required headings list includes only those specific headings. The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should only use those headings if we have content. We can include About the role (role description). Responsibilities maybe from duties. Requirements maybe from required qualifications? Qualifications maybe from preferred? Skills maybe from skills list. Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what goes where.
Let's extract:
Role description (About the role):
- We are seeking a Policy and Advocacy Manager to enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice to build brighter futures through community and policy engagement.
- Reporting to the CEO, the Policy and Advocacy Manager will collaborate across various teams of the food bank to advocate for policies that support neighbors facing food insecurity.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager will help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers and oversee an issue portfolio that is predominantly focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
Responsibilities (duties):
- Enact policy change, enhance operations, empower neighbor voice.
- Collaborate across various teams to advocate for policies supporting neighbors facing food insecurity.
- Help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers.
- Oversee an issue portfolio focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
- Build trusted relationships, collaborating with elected officials, government staff and key partner organizations.
- Shepherd policies through legislative and administrative branches of government.
- Navigate various arenas of advocacy and stakeholder dynamics.
- Manage public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications, with senior government and elected officials.
- Forge relationships on local, state, federal levels, and across key advocacy and coalition groups.
- Communicate complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Research and write policy-oriented content.
- Collaborate on cross-functional teams (internal and external) utilizing strong organizational skillset to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Regular travel across BRAFB geographic region in Western and Central VA, with occasional day trips and/or overnight travel to areas outside BRAFB region including Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and other US locations (e.g., for Feeding America conferences).
- Travel outside BRAFB region estimated at 15-20 days per year.
Requirements (maybe mandatory):
- Prior experience working on policy/advocacy initiatives, and/or advocacy campaigns, including experience at state and local governmental levels.
- Successful record of managing public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications, with senior government and elected officials.
- Experience forging relationships on the local, state, and federal levels, as well as across key advocacy and coalition groups in the region.
- Demonstrated expertise in communicating complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Strong research and writing skills, with experience drafting policy-oriented content.
- Ability to successfully collaborate on cross-functional teams (internal and external) utilizing a strong organizational skillset to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Degree in public policy, political science, communications, or related field preferred, or relevant and equivalent amount of work experience in lieu of a degree.
- The role is onsite and based in either our Verona or Charlottesville office and reports to the Chief Executive Officer.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager role is full-time.
Qualifications (maybe preferred? but we already have degree preferred). Could combine with Requirements. But we need separate sections if content.
Skills:
- Strong research and writing skills.
- Ability to communicate complex policy issues to non-technical audiences.
- Organizational skills to drive and lead complex campaigns.
- Relationship building with elected officials, government staff, partner organizations.
- Advocacy strategy management.
- Policy analysis.
- Cross-functional collaboration.
Benefits:
- Collaborative work environment.
- Excellent and affordable health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Generous paid time off (including a week between the Christmas and New Year's holidays).
- Remote/work-from-home option of 1 day per week (4 per month).
Pay:
- Hiring range is $65,000 to $72,000 annualized.
Schedule:
- Full-time.
- Remote/work-from-home option 1 day per week (4 per month) (maybe schedule includes that).
- Regular travel across region, occasional overnight travel.
- Travel outside region 15-20 days per year.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include boilerplate EEO etc. Remove.
We must not include application instructions (cover letter & resume). Remove.
We must not include "position will be open until filled" etc.
We must not include "To learn more about the Food Bank, visit www.brafb.org." Remove.
We must not include "About The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank" paragraph? That is substantive info about organization. Could be placed under About the role? But the heading "About the role" is for role description; we could also include organization info under About the role or maybe we could create a separate section but not in allowed headings. The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples; we could also use other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect us to use those headings only. So we should not add other headings like "About the organization". We could incorporate organization info into About the role or maybe under Responsibilities? Better to put under About the role as context.
Thus About the role will include mission statement and role description plus maybe organization overview.
Let's craft:
About the role
At the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, we believe access to nutritious food is a basic human need. Every day, we partner with donors, volunteers, community organizations, and neighbors to build a stronger, healthier, and more food-secure region. We are seeking a Policy and Advocacy Manager to enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice to build brighter futures through community and policy engagement. Reporting to the CEO, the Policy and Advocacy Manager will collaborate across various teams of the food bank to advocate for policies that support neighbors facing food insecurity. The Policy and Advocacy Manager will help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers and oversee an issue portfolio that is predominantly focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
Responsibilities: list bullet points.
Responsibilities
- Enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice.
- Collaborate across various teams to advocate for policies supporting neighbors facing food insecurity.
- Help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers.
- Oversee an issue portfolio focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
- Build trusted relationships with elected officials, government staff, and key partner organizations.
- Shepherd policies through legislative and administrative branches of government.
- Navigate various arenas of advocacy and stakeholder dynamics.
- Manage public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications with senior government and elected officials.
- Forge relationships on local, state, and federal levels, and across key advocacy and coalition groups.
- Communicate complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Conduct research and write policy‑oriented content.
- Collaborate on cross‑functional teams (internal and external) using strong organizational skills to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Regularly travel across the BRAFB geographic region in Western and Central VA, with occasional day trips and/or overnight travel to areas outside the BRAFB region including Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and other US locations (e.g., for Feeding America conferences).
- Travel outside the BRAFB region is estimated at 15‑20 days per year.
Requirements: maybe list of mandatory qualifications.
Requirements
- Prior experience working on policy/advocacy initiatives and/or advocacy campaigns, including experience at state and local governmental levels.
- Successful record of managing public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications, with senior government and elected officials.
- Experience forging relationships on the local, state, and federal levels, as well as across key advocacy and coalition groups in the region.
- Demonstrated expertise in communicating complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non‑technical audiences.
- Strong research and writing skills, with experience drafting policy‑oriented content.
- Ability to successfully collaborate on cross‑functional teams (internal and external) utilizing a strong organizational skillset to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Degree in public policy, political science, communications, or a related field preferred, or relevant and equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.
- The role is onsite and based in either the Verona or Charlottesville office and reports to the Chief Executive Officer.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager position is full‑time.
Qualifications: maybe we could list preferred qualifications beyond required? But we
for prose. Do not repeat job title. Do not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, EEO, etc. Keep substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - At the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, we believe access to nutritious food is a basic human need... (mission statement). Could be part of About the role? Actually "About the role" maybe includes description of role: "We are seeking a Policy and Advocacy Manager to enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice to build brighter futures through community and policy engagement. Reporting to the CEO, the Policy and Advocacy Manager will collaborate across various teams of the food bank to advocate for policies that support neighbors facing food insecurity. The Policy and Advocacy Manager will help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers and oversee an issue portfolio that is predominantly focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia." - Strong candidates... etc. - Required Qualifications list bullet points. - The role is onsite and based in either our Verona or Charlottesville office and reports to the CEO. - The Policy and Advocacy Manager role is full-time and offers a collaborative work environment, excellent and affordable health, dental, and vision benefits, generous paid time off (including a week between the Christmas and New Year's holidays), and a remote/work-from-home option of 1 day per week (4 per month). Regular travel across the BRAFB geographic region in Western and Central VA, with occasional day trips and/or overnight travel to areas outside the BRAFB region including Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and other US locations (e.g., for Feeding America conferences) is required. Travel outside the BRAFB region is estimated at a level of 15-20 days per year. - The hiring range is $65,000 to $72,000 annualized. - Application instructions: submit cover letter & resume to email or mail. Should be removed (application instructions). Also "position will be open until filled" and "To learn more about the Food Bank, visit www.brafb.org." Should be removed. - About The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank paragraph: description of organization. Could be placed under "About the role"? Actually we have separate "About the role" heading for role description; we could also have an "About the organization" but not required headings list includes only those specific headings. The instruction: use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should only use those headings if we have content. We can include About the role (role description). Responsibilities maybe from duties. Requirements maybe from required qualifications? Qualifications maybe from preferred? Skills maybe from skills list. Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to decide what goes where.
Let's extract:
Role description (About the role):
- We are seeking a Policy and Advocacy Manager to enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice to build brighter futures through community and policy engagement.
- Reporting to the CEO, the Policy and Advocacy Manager will collaborate across various teams of the food bank to advocate for policies that support neighbors facing food insecurity.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager will help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers and oversee an issue portfolio that is predominantly focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
Responsibilities (duties):
- Enact policy change, enhance operations, empower neighbor voice.
- Collaborate across various teams to advocate for policies supporting neighbors facing food insecurity.
- Help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers.
- Oversee an issue portfolio focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
- Build trusted relationships, collaborating with elected officials, government staff and key partner organizations.
- Shepherd policies through legislative and administrative branches of government.
- Navigate various arenas of advocacy and stakeholder dynamics.
- Manage public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications, with senior government and elected officials.
- Forge relationships on local, state, federal levels, and across key advocacy and coalition groups.
- Communicate complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Research and write policy-oriented content.
- Collaborate on cross-functional teams (internal and external) utilizing strong organizational skillset to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Regular travel across BRAFB geographic region in Western and Central VA, with occasional day trips and/or overnight travel to areas outside BRAFB region including Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and other US locations (e.g., for Feeding America conferences).
- Travel outside BRAFB region estimated at 15-20 days per year.
Requirements (maybe mandatory):
- Prior experience working on policy/advocacy initiatives, and/or advocacy campaigns, including experience at state and local governmental levels.
- Successful record of managing public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications, with senior government and elected officials.
- Experience forging relationships on the local, state, and federal levels, as well as across key advocacy and coalition groups in the region.
- Demonstrated expertise in communicating complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Strong research and writing skills, with experience drafting policy-oriented content.
- Ability to successfully collaborate on cross-functional teams (internal and external) utilizing a strong organizational skillset to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Degree in public policy, political science, communications, or related field preferred, or relevant and equivalent amount of work experience in lieu of a degree.
- The role is onsite and based in either our Verona or Charlottesville office and reports to the Chief Executive Officer.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager role is full-time.
Qualifications (maybe preferred? but we already have degree preferred). Could combine with Requirements. But we need separate sections if content.
Skills:
- Strong research and writing skills.
- Ability to communicate complex policy issues to non-technical audiences.
- Organizational skills to drive and lead complex campaigns.
- Relationship building with elected officials, government staff, partner organizations.
- Advocacy strategy management.
- Policy analysis.
- Cross-functional collaboration.
Benefits:
- Collaborative work environment.
- Excellent and affordable health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Generous paid time off (including a week between the Christmas and New Year's holidays).
- Remote/work-from-home option of 1 day per week (4 per month).
Pay:
- Hiring range is $65,000 to $72,000 annualized.
Schedule:
- Full-time.
- Remote/work-from-home option 1 day per week (4 per month) (maybe schedule includes that).
- Regular travel across region, occasional overnight travel.
- Travel outside region 15-20 days per year.
We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include boilerplate EEO etc. Remove.
We must not include application instructions (cover letter & resume). Remove.
We must not include "position will be open until filled" etc.
We must not include "To learn more about the Food Bank, visit www.brafb.org." Remove.
We must not include "About The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank" paragraph? That is substantive info about organization. Could be placed under About the role? But the heading "About the role" is for role description; we could also include organization info under About the role or maybe we could create a separate section but not in allowed headings. The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., meaning those are examples; we could also use other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect us to use those headings only. So we should not add other headings like "About the organization". We could incorporate organization info into About the role or maybe under Responsibilities? Better to put under About the role as context.
Thus About the role will include mission statement and role description plus maybe organization overview.
Let's craft:
About the role
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect us to use those headings only. So we should not add other headings like "About the organization". We could incorporate organization info into About the role or maybe under Responsibilities? Better to put under About the role as context.
Thus About the role will include mission statement and role description plus maybe organization overview.
Let's craft:
About the role
At the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, we believe access to nutritious food is a basic human need. Every day, we partner with donors, volunteers, community organizations, and neighbors to build a stronger, healthier, and more food-secure region. We are seeking a Policy and Advocacy Manager to enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice to build brighter futures through community and policy engagement. Reporting to the CEO, the Policy and Advocacy Manager will collaborate across various teams of the food bank to advocate for policies that support neighbors facing food insecurity. The Policy and Advocacy Manager will help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers and oversee an issue portfolio that is predominantly focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
Responsibilities: list bullet points.Responsibilities
- Enact policy change, enhance operations, and empower neighbor voice.
- Collaborate across various teams to advocate for policies supporting neighbors facing food insecurity.
- Help tell BRAFB's story to local, state, and federal policymakers.
- Oversee an issue portfolio focused on reducing food insecurity in central and western Virginia.
- Build trusted relationships with elected officials, government staff, and key partner organizations.
- Shepherd policies through legislative and administrative branches of government.
- Navigate various arenas of advocacy and stakeholder dynamics.
- Manage public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications with senior government and elected officials.
- Forge relationships on local, state, and federal levels, and across key advocacy and coalition groups.
- Communicate complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non-technical audiences.
- Conduct research and write policy‑oriented content.
- Collaborate on cross‑functional teams (internal and external) using strong organizational skills to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Regularly travel across the BRAFB geographic region in Western and Central VA, with occasional day trips and/or overnight travel to areas outside the BRAFB region including Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, and other US locations (e.g., for Feeding America conferences).
- Travel outside the BRAFB region is estimated at 15‑20 days per year.
Requirements
- Prior experience working on policy/advocacy initiatives and/or advocacy campaigns, including experience at state and local governmental levels.
- Successful record of managing public policy analysis, political, and advocacy strategies, including policy communications, with senior government and elected officials.
- Experience forging relationships on the local, state, and federal levels, as well as across key advocacy and coalition groups in the region.
- Demonstrated expertise in communicating complex, technical, or policy issues to diverse, non‑technical audiences.
- Strong research and writing skills, with experience drafting policy‑oriented content.
- Ability to successfully collaborate on cross‑functional teams (internal and external) utilizing a strong organizational skillset to drive and lead complex campaigns and projects.
- Degree in public policy, political science, communications, or a related field preferred, or relevant and equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.
- The role is onsite and based in either the Verona or Charlottesville office and reports to the Chief Executive Officer.
- The Policy and Advocacy Manager position is full‑time.