The Legislative Director serves as the Member’s chief policy advisor and leader of the office’s Legislative Team.

The Legislative Director’s primary responsibilities are to manage the Legislative Team, advise the Member on legislation, and direct the development of policy positions and legislative initiatives. • Ensures that the Legislative Team is properly focused on the Member's legislative and policy goals. • Handles long-term and short-term legislative planning for the Member. Recommends strategies and tactics on bills and positions. Works with the Member, Chief of Staff, and Legislative Assistants to formulate positions on legislative issues. • Manages, trains, supervises, and assigns areas of responsibility to the Legislative Team. Assigns tasks, sets deadlines, and establishes workflows for the Legislative Team. • Directs legislative staff meetings. • Reviews, provides feedback, and approves legislative actions, letters, memos, and constituent correspondence. • Provides technical analysis of pending legislation, legislative developments on policy issues; recommends strategies and tactics on bills and amendments; and maintains up-to-date status reports on legislation. • Crafts vote recommendations for the Member’s consideration on a regular basis and reports legislative activity to the Member and Chief of Staff. • Drafts bills and amendments. Drafts memos to the Member and staff on policy topics, relevant issues, and recommended actions. • Identifies oversight opportunities related to federal programs and agencies. • With respect to hearings, coordinates the preparation of witness lists, drafts background memos and questions for witnesses, edits transcripts, and ensures that relevant materials are submitted for the hearing record. • Advises and assists the Member during House floor debate, including preparing floor statements, talking points, and rebuttals to opposing arguments. • Acts as a liaison with Committees, House and Senate staff, government agencies, and outside groups. Negotiates with staff from other offices and agencies regarding amendments and other legislative developments. • Engages with constituents, stakeholder groups, and other parties. Builds and maintains relationships with constituents, advocacy organizations, federal agencies, and industry stakeholders. Meets with constituents and outside groups. • Tracks constituent concerns and integrates feedback into policy strategy. • Attends briefings, hearings, and stakeholder events on behalf of the office. • Identifies, develops, and proposes opportunities to advance the Member’s priorities. • Coordinates with Communications Team on press releases, op-eds, talking points. • Coordinates with the Operations Team on scheduling and long-term planning. • Coordinates with the District office team on stakeholder outreach, policy/casework crossover, federal grants, and other projects. Provides information about policy and activity in Washington, DC. • Completes projects assigned by the Member and Chief of Staff.

Requirements: • The position is based in the Washington, DC office. Regular, predictable attendance is required for performance of duties, including in-person supervision of legislative staff and providing rapid response to urgent legislative issues. • Has strong expertise, strategic judgment, leadership skills, and a working knowledge of Capitol Hill. • Ability to communicate effectively with the Member and staff, members of the public, representatives from other offices, outside organizations, and others. • Ability to attend in-person meetings with constituents and stakeholders. • Ability to represent the Member in-person including speaking on behalf of the oUice and participating in discussions regarding legislative strategy. • Frequently engage in public-facing interactions with Members of Congress and their staffs; political, industry, government, and state leaders; and members of the public, including constituents. • Ability to work long and unpredictable hours, weekends and holidays, as needed. • Travels as necessary for performance of duties. Driver’s license strongly preferred. • Ability to prioritize and perform duties under pressure in a fast-paced environment. • Regularly use typical oUice equipment, software programs, and methods of communication, including, for example, a computer, email, telephone, smartphone, photocopier, etc. Standards of Excellence: • Preforms all duties of the LD role. • Develops a positive reputation (for oneself and the Member) amongst internal and external stakeholders • Develops an organic understanding and comprehensive knowledge of issues within our portfolio. • Has comprehensive knowledge of the Congressional District • Participates in professional development activities. • Provides deliverables accurately and meets deadlines. • Pays close attention to detail. • Conducts oneself professionally. • Is ready and willing to assist other members of the Legislative Team and oUice staU. • Creatively solves problems. • Thinks of new ideas. • Builds relationships with Congressional staff and stakeholders.

Interested applicants may submit their resume and cover letter.