Senior Federal Policy Analyst​/Advisor

Senior Federal Policy Analyst / Advisor

Location:

Ability to be in Washington, D.C. at least three days per week, with flexibility on days to accommodate meetings with partner organizations, Executive branch officials, and Hill staff and members of Congress. There will be weeks when in-person demands are greater than three days per week. If not currently based in/near DC, you must be able to relocate to the area (with relocation benefits benchmarked to the non-profit sector).

Reports to:

Policy Director, Lauren Lombardo

Status:
Full-time

Compensation: $70-160K, plus competitive benefits. We’re deliberately recruiting at a variety of experience levels. Title (Policy Analyst, Senior Policy Analyst, Policy Advisor, Senior Policy Advisor) and salary will be informed by level and nature of relevant experience and other factors.

The Recoding America Fund (RAF) is a bipartisan hybrid 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) initiative to strengthen America by building the federal and state governments we need to compete globally and serve citizens effectively. RAF aims to restore the core capabilities of government and move to a new operating model—the right people, doing the right work, with purpose-fit systems and test-and-learn frameworks—so it can reliably deliver on its goals.

The Fund seeks to help accelerate the growth and development of an ideologically diverse field of state capacity organizations, connect them to each other, fill in the gaps, and help them set ambitious common goals to drive transformational change across all levels of government in this time of unprecedented disruption. Change is coming to public institutions, and now is the time to shape that change in the public interest.

That ambitious task cannot be the work of just one party or faction.

We’re hiring up to three people at a variety of experience levels to join our Federal Policy team. These positions focus on the Fund's work to strengthen the federal government through bold, structural reform—not incremental tweaks. We collaborate directly with the Executive branch and Congress and make grants to independent organizations working to tackle root causes of weak government delivery capacity, such as catalyzing durable civil service reform, modernizing how the government procures and builds digital infrastructure, reducing procedural burden, and fostering more constructive feedback loops between those who make policy in Congress and those who implement it in agencies.

These roles are for people who want to drive ambitious, systems-level change.

Driving ambitious change requires using a broad range of tools. A unique aspect of these roles:
You'll be hired into RAF's 501(c)(3) but will work across both our c3 and c4 entities. This hybrid structure is a strategic advantage—it gives you access to a wider range of tools and levers to drive impact. Through the c3, you'll make grants, conduct research, and provide education. Through the c4, you'll engage in direct advocacy, lobbying, and policy campaigns.

This structure enables more comprehensive and flexible approaches to advancing federal reform than a traditional single-entity nonprofit could pursue.

Depending on experience level, these roles will participate in and support all aspects of building, shipping, and scaling real change alongside federal state capacity ecosystem partners and government partners, including:

• Engaging directly with grantees and federal partners to shape policy proposals, strategize implementation, define success metrics, and track real-world impact
• Crafting reports, presentations, memos, toolkits, and other documents to move decision-makers and inspire action—for audiences ranging from the general public to federal partners, grantees, funders, and internal staff
• Contributing to strategic planning and problem-solving as part of a small, nimble, mission-driven team

The specific balance of responsibilities will vary by experience level, with more senior hires taking greater ownership of strategy and stakeholder relationships, and earlier-career hires focusing more…