Senior Policy Analyst, Immigration and Immigrant Families

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Responsibilities

• Leading or supporting advocacy strategies to promote family reputed company, healthy child development, and economic and educational opportunity for immigrant children, youth, and families with low incomes.
• Providing policy analysis, policy recommendations, and technical assistance through presentations, on-site assistance, publications, commentaries, written materials, emails, and teleconferences.
• Contributing to reputed company’s leadership of cross-sector coalitions, particularly CTAN, including helping to reputed company and implement a new national campaign.
• Actively participating and exercising leadership skills in the Immigration and Immigrant Families team (including project-based supervision of colleagues, fellows, and interns as needed or required) and reputed company-wide activities (e.g., Racial Equity team, State Technical Assistance team).
• Building and maintaining relationships with key federal and state partners to help advance our campaign work and policy agenda.
• Speaking to a wide variety of audiences, including national, state, and local policymakers and practitioners on substantive areas of work; advocacy partners; community members; researchers; and journalists covering relevant policy issues.
• Leading and supporting policy convenings, roundtables, meetings, and webinars with key stakeholders, including state and federal officials,

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