Manager, Advocacy

The American Lung Association has an excellent opportunity for a Manager, Advocacy
. Working as a member of the Advocacy and Public Policy department, you will join an outstanding group of professionals dedicated to our mission: to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease through research, education, and advocacy.

The American Lung Association is leading the fight to protect public health from dangerous air pollution and climate change caused by emissions from vehicles, power plants and other sources. The Manager, Advocacy, Clean Air in Sacramento will deepen the Lung Association’s public education and advocacy work on clean air issues in California. Working closely with the California and national staff teams, the Manager will engage in direct advocacy, provide issue area expertise, engage in media advocacy, and conduct stakeholder engagement and coalition leadership, including expanding the role of health professionals in advocacy and communications on cleaner cars and trucks standards, zero emission transportation funding, and renewable electricity policy.

This is a grant‑funded position.

The position is located at the American Lung Association’s Sacramento, California office and will be a hybrid of in‑person and virtual work.

• Maintain and deepen health and medical organizational partnerships throughout California; serve as key information source to coalition members on policy developments; organize events and facilitate coalition communications and engagement; coordinate with related campaign efforts in the state outside of the health community.
• Recruit and support health and medical professionals, and other grassroots and grasstops volunteers, who care about healthy air and/or climate action and are willing to share their stories with decision‑makers and media; coordinate activities with Lung Association Leadership Board.
• Track policy developments and engage policymakers on California‑specific clean air and climate initiatives, including standards for light and heavy‑duty vehicles, renewable energy including offshore wind, and other policies that expand the use of zero Emission technologies and implementation of sustainable transportation solutions. Engage in broader air quality policy arenas including wildfire prevention and responses and other issues.
• Develop policy content to support public outreach; work in coordination with national campaign team and consultants to draft letters, factsheets, policy briefs, and media materials; support the release of State of the Air report and other reports as applicable.
• Other duties as needed, including support for broad organizational goals.
• Effectively convene and mobilize sustained health coalition involvement in the public policy arena; build a diverse base of grassroots and grasstops supporters, particularly among health professionals; and create a drumbeat on the health impacts of air pollution and climate change, building support for strong healthy air and climate change policies. Secure attention and support from key decision‑makers.
• Ability to prioritize projects and efficiently use time to meet established deadlines.
• Respond quickly and effectively to rapid response campaign requests.
• Provide up‑to‑date, error‑free tracking and reporting on deliverables for monthly/annual reporting, regular communication with campaign team.
• Maintain effective and informative dialogue with volunteers, other state advocacy staff, and other staff in the Washington National Office and other national offices.
• Maintain effective and informative relationships with colleagues and partners.

• Bachelor’s degree in political science, environmental policy or related field.
• Three to five years of advocacy experience, with voluntary health organizations, advocacy organizations or patient advocacy groups preferred.
• Experience with public policy advocacy, coalition building and media strategy.
• General knowledge of clean air, climate change, and environmental policy.
• Ability to work remotely (computer will be provided).
• Ability to travel, including occasional overnight travel.
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with…