Director of Government & Community Affairs

The Hispanic Federation (HF) is the nation's premier Latino nonprofit membership organization. Founded in 1990, HF supports Hispanic families and strengthens Latino institutions through grant making and direct services in the areas of education, health, immigration, civic engagement, economic empowerment, and the environment. Values that drive our work include equality, fairness, diversity, and empathy.

Who We Seek

Hispanic Federation seeks a Director of Government & Community Affairs to support programmatic work within communities in New York State and support communications with elected officials and administrative leads for the organization. The Director serves as the representative for both community and government outreach and is critical to success in both diverse spaces. The position marries programmatic support through service coordination in partnership with network members and district leads and managing government relations and engagement.

The position requires a strong attention to detail, experience in government relations, and an alignment to the mission and values of Hispanic Federation.

A successful candidate will have the acumen to manage relationships and represent Hispanic Federation well, an understanding of community needs, and strong program management. The position is hybrid and will require both days in the office and days onsite in third party community spaces.

Reports to: Senior Vice President for Policy and Communications

Location: New York, NY

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Cultivate key relationships and partnerships with community leaders,community-based organizations,and their respective governmentrepresentativesin Hispanic Federation’snetwork.

Represent Hispanic Federation at public policy events, legislative visits, hearings, briefings,community and networking events when needed.

Coordinate government engagement strategies in alignment with Hispanic Federations policy priorities.

Provide data and analysis to policy team oncommunity engagementrelatedissuesin collaboration with programmatic work.

Assist HF’s advocacy efforts, manage reporting for lobbying in conjunction with compliance protocols and tracking.

Support Hispanic Federation’spolicy teamwithoutreach campaigns to bothcommunity-basedorganizations and government officials.

Develop and managetracking systems and metrics for HF policy and advocacy efforts, prepare reports onsuccessesas necessary.

Managinginitiatives involvingelected officials, ensuring the high-quality and success of Hispanic Federation’s community engagement programs.

When managing aninitiative,implement

HF subgrant agreementplanningprocesses, outlinedeliverablesandsecureapprovalsfrom senior leadership for all agreements to launch grant processes.

Manage contracting, consulting agreements, MOUs, etc as it relates to community engagement and shepherd all processes following initial conversations to its end (ex. check request for final payment based on deliverables and manage payment schedule) in states where HF has no state office present.

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of abachelor’sdegree anddemonstratedinterest in not-for-profitor program administration, and advanced degree with a focus on public administration, public policy, or research is an asset.

Minimum of five (5) years of experience in fast paced offices and with community outreach required, experience working with government offices and elected officials is strongly preferred.

Experienceinleadinglarge-scale projects, managing budgets, and providing guidance in program and event management.

History of success with creative and critical thinking while managing multiple priorities and programs.

Self-starter with ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, and adapt to evolving situations.

Strong acumen and presence,comfort and experience leading staffarerequired.

Understanding of issues affectingunderrepresented communities, including the Latino Community. Acommitment to Hispanic Federation’s mission and core valuesisrequired.

Highly organized with great attention to detail.

Ability to work well with a diverse group of staff and volunteers, a team player able to support as needed.

Strong Spanish language…