Senior Advocacy Specialist - Hybrid Role

The Senior Advocacy Specialist will spearhead CCAoA's digital advocacy objectives. This position will be responsible for leading our digital advocacy communications, establishing priorities for advocacy projects, identifying audiences, and setting the timing of digital campaigns. While strong communication skills are essential, the primary focus is on policy and advocacy work rather than a communications role with occasional policy involvement. We are seeking a policy and advocacy professional with exceptional communication skills who can effectively multi-task, quickly learn subject matter, and translate key points in writing to engage multiple audiences. The ideal candidate will be a creative, energetic, and nimble advocacy content creator.

Job Responsibilities:

• Report to the Director of Advocacy within the Policy and Research Unit
• Develop and disseminate digital content related to child care advocacy, including action alerts, social media content, website content, blog posts, toolkits, and other materials. Contribute to advocacy campaign plans
• Facilitate all phases of digital advocacy content review and quality control
• Contribute to and maintain digital advocacy programming calendar
• Grow constituent engagement with the organization’s digital advocacy. Analyze email and digital campaign performance and provide regular well-prepared reports and recommendations for adjustments to digital work
• Partner with internal staff and third-party vendors as necessary to perform tasks
• Provide crosschecking and quality control for team members' digital content as needed
• Facilitate support for and implement broad adoption of digital best practices in testing, monitoring, engagement, segmentation, targeting, and other optimization across email, web, social media, and mobile channels
• Provide technical assistance and capacity-building support to membership
• Support the execution of advocacy initiatives directly including project management, writing, analysis, and other activities
• Respond to, troubleshoot, and assist constituents when issues arise with advocacy projects
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 3 years professional work in the advocacy or political space. Experience with digital advocacy preferred
• Proven ability to translate complex issues into compelling narratives, write for multiple audiences, and create content
• Strong project management skills, including ability to self-initiate, set priorities, and adhere to timelines and deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong copyediting ability and experience with AP Style
• Ability to write quickly under deadline
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively in a challenging environment with changing priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop and manage relationships across the organization and with external partners
• Proficiency with advocacy platforms, experience with Quorum preferred
• Familiarity with HubSpot or a similar CRM platform
• Extensive skills with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Familiarity with graphics and editing tools like the Adobe Creative Suite is a plus

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Minimum of 3 years professional work in the advocacy or political space. Experience with digital advocacy preferred
• Proven ability to translate complex issues into compelling narratives, write for multiple audiences, and create content
• Strong project management skills, including ability to self-initiate, set priorities, and adhere to timelines and deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong copyediting ability and experience with AP Style
• Ability to write quickly under deadline
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively in a challenging environment with changing priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop and manage relationships across the organization and with external partners
• Proficiency with advocacy platforms, experience with Quorum preferred
• Familiarity with HubSpot or a similar CRM platform
• Extensive skills with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Familiarity with graphics and editing tools like the Adobe Creative Suite is a plus

Why You'll Love Working with Us:

At Child Care Aware of America, we believe that a happy, healthy team is the foundation of our success. That's why we offer an exceptional benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance:

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: We provide top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance to keep you and your family healthy and thriving. Flexible Spending Account options for Health and Dependent Care too!
• Generous Paid Time Off: Enjoy ample vacation days, sick days, paid holidays, school events leave and personal leave to recharge and pursue your passions.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Whether the position is remote or hybrid, we accommodate your needs to help you achieve a harmonious work-life balance.
• Retirement Plans: Plan for your future with our competitive 403b match program and retirement planning resources.
• Child Care Stipend: A monthly subsidy to help cover the cost of child care - including camps and before/after school care.
• Community: Our staff regularly plan engaging events to ensure that teams feel connected despite a virtual environment.

Child Care Aware of America (CCAoA) is the only national organization that supports every part of the child care system. In partnership with an on-the-ground network of Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) organizations, we work in states and communities to advance high-quality, affordable child care—transforming a patchwork of resources into a system that works for everyone. Together, we make America child care strong—and that makes everyone stronger. CCAoA is committed to recruiting and retaining a dynamic workforce to help build a child care system that serves all children and families. Join us in ensuring that every family has access to high-quality, affordable child care.