Job Description
JOB TITLE: Policy Analyst
SUPERVISOR: Director of Advocacy and Public Policy
COMPENSATION: Compensation base range is from $58,000 – $62,000 annually, commensurate with education and experience.
COVID-19 REQUIREMENTS:
All employees must have completed a COVID-19 vaccine series that has been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or by the World Health Organization (WHO) before beginning work.
SCHEDULE: The position is a full-time, exempt with a regular schedule of Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00, with occasional mandated night and weekends.
LOCATION: Will work remotely but needs to be located in the Portland Metro Area to participate in our in-person programming.
SCOPE OF WORK:
The Policy Analyst is a key leader in the League’s public affairs, representing the League to advance justice through regional policies and initiatives that promote equity, parity, and civil rights for Black and African American communities in Oregon and Southwest Washington. This staffer is responsible for providing leadership and guidance on a variety of Urban League of Portland initiatives in the areas of administration, grassroots organizing, community outreach, government relations, communications and policy program assistance.
There are three specific tracks of work for which one of the Policy Analysts will be responsible for. This specific position is for the wealth track:
- Health – the Health Policy Analyst’s essential duties and responsibilities will focus specifically on behavioral health, public health, environmental justice, and homelessness.
- Wealth – the Wealth Policy Analyst’s essential duties and responsibilities will focus specifically on housing, jobs, community development.
- Liberation – the Liberation Policy Analyst’s essential duties and responsibilities will focus on education, criminal justice, voting protections, systemic racism/white supremacy.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Research and analyze housing, economic, employment, healthcare, and other public policy that directly or indirectly; negatively or positively impact African Americans at the local, regional, state, and at times, federal levels.
- Monitor legislative, regulatory, and administrative matters related to policy issues important to the Urban League of Portland at the local and state level; advise and make recommendations to advance Urban League of Portland’s priorities.
- Advise the League’s executive team on the League’s public positions on pending legislative matters, developing public statements, guidance on testimony.
- Conducting policy or health research and draft or review a range of materials including testimony, briefings, statements, key findings, frequently asked questions, alerts to ensure they are evidence based, accurate and represent Urban League of Portland’s positions.
- Oversee the education and training of staff on the League’s policy priorities
- Represent the Urban League at meetings and collaborate with partners on task forces, work groups, and committees to promote parity and civil rights for African Americans and others living in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
- Identify emerging policy and systems issues through networking with Urban League staff, constituents, program participants, and community-based organizations and partnerships, state, and at times, national affiliate organizations.
- Advise and guide the policy aspects of the State of Black Oregon and periodic issue updates and policy briefs.
- Lead efforts to coordinate with Urban League of Portland program directors and managers to ensure coherence between policies, proposed legislation, and practices.
- Write reports and other communications related to the work of the Urban League of Portland tailored to a specific and/or general audience.
- Support the implementation of Urban League of Portland’s policy priorities. To include, but not limited to, communication and outreach with neighborhood and community coalition groups on a particular policy item; taking the lead on communication pieces such as Op-eds; and working with team members to get pertinent information out to members and the public at large.
- Develop policy briefs on issues that empower African Americans and others to achieve equality in education, employment, health, economic security and overall quality of life to help educate elected officials, partner organizations, board of directors, and the general public.
- Drafting model legislation, amendments to legislation, and administrative rules that advance consider the organization’s positions.
- Assist in developing policy-related backgrounders, public testimony, talking points, letters and other materials to support Urban League of Portland’s policy priorities.
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