State Policy Analyst

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Child Care Aware® of America is our nation’s leading voice for child care. We work with more than 400 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral agencies to ensure that families in every community have access to quality, affordable child care.

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The State Policy Analyst will support the Senior Director of Federal and State Government Affairs and Chief, Policy, Research, and Programs, on Child Care Aware ® of America’s (CCAoA) efforts to advocate for safe, quality, and affordable child care for all families. The State Policy Analyst will work in collaboration with the Federal Policy Analyst to support CCAoA’s advocacy efforts. In addition, the State Policy Analyst will be involved in CCAoA’s “Child Care Works” movement, which seeks to influence lawmakers and organize and support advocates.

Position Duties and Responsibilities:

• In coordination with the Senior Director of Federal and State Government Affairs, support and grow Child Care Aware ® of America's national network of advocates.
• Assess the needs of state and local advocates for technical assistance. Develop and provide responsive advocacy trainings and resources.
• Perform ongoing research to assess advocacy opportunities in states and to inform advocacy strategies
• As needed, assess and analyze the state child care and early childhood education policy landscape.
• Develop, write, and disseminate action alerts, social media content, website content, blog posts, toolkits, and other materials related to child care advocacy. Contribute to campaign plans.
• Maintain advocacy website programming, web design and development.
• Support the execution of advocacy initiatives directly including project management, writing, analysis, and other activities.
• Respond to, troubleshoot, and assist constituents when issues arise with advocacy opportunities.
• Track state advocacy activities and report on metrics