The AARP Associate State Director for Community is a frontline voice and presence with the 50+ public, AARP members and volunteers, targeted audiences including multicultural audiences, stakeholders and partners.
In this role you will execute relevant metro community-based experiences for members and multicultural/diverse audiences and 50+; execute, lead and/or coordinate the metro team's campaign and advocacy efforts to influence local, state, and federal policy, leveraging volunteer teams and external partners; recruit, orient, train, and engage volunteers; cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with third parties in the metro market, with services, community, advocacy, and volunteer organizations, across public, private and social/non-profit sectors; build strong, collaborative working relationships with metro market team and Matrix leads; participate as an active member of the Metro team with an eye to achieving metro-markets goals and vision.
Requires completion of a Bachelor's degree in urban planning, public administration, political science, public policy, sociology, or related discipline and 5 years of experience; or an equivalent combination of training and experience related to the duties of the position; ability to communicate effectively with different audiences, as the context may vary to the media, policymakers, volunteers and/or other external stakeholders; understanding of public policy issues facing the state and AARP membership; demonstrated high level of competence with oral and written communication, computer literacy, social media, strategic thinking, and relationship management skills. Understanding of the state's political and community service and engagement environments; previous government relations and grassroots organizing experience and experience working with volunteer structures. Experience implementing programs for multicultural audiences preferred; Bilingual language skills preferred. Local/in state travel required up to 50% of the time.
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