Summary: The analyst, government affairs will be responsible for legislative analysis, technical assistance, and other activities to support ASTHO???s federal government affairs efforts. **This is not a lobbying position**

Location: Washington, DC area

Anticipated salary: $63,000 Extended experience: up to $70,500 if experience exceeds expectations

Principal Functions:

• Attends and provides high-level summaries about Congressional hearings, briefings, and other events with Congress and the Administration
• Assists in the development of legislative alerts in collaboration with the government affairs team to ensure content is accurate, timely, and relevant
• Conducts legislative analysis on priority legislation
• Supports preparations of ASTHO members for Congressional hearings including the development of background documents
• Develops and maintains relevant materials and links for the website and my.ASTHO pages
• Assists with contract administration including development, expense tracking, payment, and tracking of deliverables
• Assists with planning and implementation of ASTHO???s annual advocacy day including collaboration across the organization; scheduling meetings for state health officials; and developing documents and related training material
• Schedules conference calls, creates and/or distributes minutes from conference calls to support the ASTHO government relations committee
• Provides administrative support to senior leadership of the team including managing calendar, printing, and on-site support for meetings
• Collects, enters, and updates data for operations plans, communications metrics, sign-on letters, technical assistance and other data for team review
• Performs research and prepares briefing materials, including state and territorial advocacy fact sheets
• Attends and provides summary notes from coalition meetings and partner meetings on an as needed basis
• Collaborates across the GA/PR/SHP team to ensure cohesion and alignment of activities and messaging

Qualifications:

• Bachelor???s degree in political science, communications or policy preferred
• Minimum 1-3 years experience working on Capitol Hill preferred
• Computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite virtual meeting and collaboration platforms
• Knowledge about the congressional appropriations process and federal health agencies such as HHS, CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA, and FDA preferred
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple and diverse priorities with positive outcomes
• Must live in the Washington, DC area

About Us: ASTHO is the national nonprofit organization representing the public health agencies of the United States, the U.S. territories and Freely Associated States, and the District of Columbia, as well as the more than 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, are dedicated to formulating and influencing sound public health policy and to ensuring excellence in public health practice. ASTHO is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with a regional office in Atlanta, GA. ASTHO was incorporated on March 23, 1942 with the goal of helping health officials navigate a rapidly changing public health landscape and remains a strong voice in governmental public health.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: ASTHO is an all-encompassing diverse and inclusive organization that respects and celebrates every person???s strengths, assets, and values, eliminating inequities and biases in all facets of activities and operations. ASTHO is committed to leading organizational change efforts that support racial healing, racial justice, and transformation within state and territorial public health agencies.

Mandatory Vaccination Policy: As a Public Health organization, ASTHO accepts the responsibility to follow CDC guidelines and advisories relating to the health of all. ASTHO has adopted a mandatory vaccination policy applicable, as permitted by law, to all ASTHO employees to safeguard the health of our employees from the hazard of COVID-19.