Network Advocacy Specialist (Chicago or Washington DC)

Feeding America is hiring a Network Advocacy Specialist in Chicago and Washington DC.

Work responsibilities:

• Contributes to the implementation of advocacy strategies to advance Feeding America’s public policy agenda and increase engagement of advocates.  

• Oversees timely and effective communications to network members about key legislative and policy issues and actions, through the weekly GR update, monthly GR webinars, maintaining the GR and Advocacy team’s intranet site, and other communication needs – with support from advocacy team members and other GR staff.  

• Oversees the tracking of data around Feeding America’s network member advocacy legislative engagement and capacity efforts and ensures data – including contact data and advocacy tracking data – is up-to-date using databases including Quorum and Salesforce.   

• Oversees organization and posting of advocacy, government relations and policy content on FeedingAmerica.org and other digital advocacy channels, in collaboration with the Manager, Digital Advocacy, digital marketing and IT teams respectively.  

Job skills/education:

• 3+ years’ experience in issue advocacy, grassroots mobilization, external affairs or issue campaigns required.  

• Strong writing skills are required.  

• Experience with CRMs (particularly EveryAction, Salesforce, Quorum), using social media platforms for advocacy engagement essential.  

• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.  

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