Policy Analyst

UNITE-LA is an education and business intermediary focused on advancing equitable education, workforce, and economic mobility outcomes. The Policy Analyst will research and analyze cradle-through-career policies, track legislation, coordinate with policymakers and stakeholders, develop communications, manage projects, and support fundraising and grant activities.

Responsibilities:

• Research cradle-through-career education topics to inform policy development. Such topics could include early care and education, student parents, Multilingual Learners, economic development and immigrant workforce, state and federal funding that support workforce development programs and career pathway opportunities
• Leverage research and analysis to help inform UNITE-LA’s policy priorities, strategies to meet policy goals, and elevate the through lines to help strengthen our public education system
• Draft summaries, blogs, and fact sheets that help elevate UNITE-LA’s work, make connection points to policy efforts and priorities, and help inform policymakers and non-traditional partners
• Collaborate with team members to prepare qualitative and quantitative research reports and presentations for internal and external dissemination
• Support the Policy Team with analysis and tracking relevant policy areas and legislation. The Analyst will help coordinate local, state, and federal legislation tracking, including bills, hearings, and regulatory activities
• Schedule and coordinate meetings with legislators, government officials, and other stakeholders with guidance and support of Policy Team members
• Prepare briefing materials, background documents, and talking points for legislative and advocacy meetings
• Research, draft, and edit newsletters on education and workforce policies and trends
• Strengthen UNITE-LA's brand as a policy leader by amplifying policy accomplishments, priorities, and opportunities in social media, newsletters, etc
• Create and deliver compelling presentations (in-person and virtually) that effectively communicates information, ideas and learning objectives
• Provide copyediting for grant reports, proposals, and communications
• Use Asana and Salesforce to track tasks and projects across teams
• Support the implementation and tracking of grant-funded deliverables (e.g., programs, webinars, toolkits, reports, etc.) through project management system, Asana
• Coordinate and manage select team meetings including scheduling, agenda development, and summary of notes to advance action items with internal teams, partners and other stakeholders
• Support event logistics and follow-up activities
• Work with the Policy and Development Teams to support grant requests, reporting, and funder cultivation
• Support curation of information for grant reports and proposals
• Develop interim communications for team members to share updates with current grant program officers and continued relationship cultivation

Requirements:

• Proven track record of working effectively in cross-sector partnerships and team environments
• Ability to identify challenges and potential obstacles; formulates and implements solutions drawing on the expertise and input of others
• Manages multiple projects with overlapping timelines and requirements to completion. Can create complex project plans for new projects
• Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively for the appropriate audiences (e.g. funders, business community, etc.)
• Interacts with internal and external customers in a way that provides accurate, timely, professional, and effective information and service
• Effectively manages personal workload, and work of teams when relevant, ensuring delivery of high-quality work. Work products (e.g. reports, documents, files, etc.) are complete, accurate, timely and understandable
• Changes work priorities to meet feedback and changing demands; proactively seeks opportunities to be supportive of change, new ideas and different perspectives
• Consistently seeks and engages diverse perspectives of various identities and experiences respectfully and effectively. Demonstrates self‐awareness in behaviors and actions in engaging all stakeholders
• Issue area expertise is strongly preferred in the areas of Early Care & Education, TK-12, and Higher Education policy and systems
• Knowledge of current trends and best practices in education and workforce development policies
• Familiarity/understanding of California's legislative and budgeting process, federal legislative and budgeting process, and/or Los Angeles City and County legislative and budgeting process
• Familiarity with CRM and project management tools. (e.g. Salesforce, Asana, etc.)