Deputy Director of State Policy & Advocacy

The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1986. CHIRLA is a California leader with national impact made of diverse immigrant families and individuals who act as agents of social change to achieve a world with freedom of mobility, full human rights, and true participatory democracy. CHIRLA organizes and serves individuals, institutions, and coalitions to build power, transform public opinions, and change policies to achieve full human, civil and labor rights.

Guided by power, love, and vision of our community, CHIRLA embraces and drives progressive social change.

The Deputy Director of State Policy & Advocacy plays a key role in an exciting team who is charged with planning and executing both long term and short-term direction of the organization’s policy agenda. The Deputy Director will collaborate and assist in leading future projects to expand and support the work being done across the state. The Deputy Director will lead in the strategic planning to maintain and cultivate relationships with state elected officials, agency directors, and Governor’s office.

The Deputy Director oversees the contract lobbyist and policy staff base in the Sacramento office. The ideal candidate will work successfully with CHIRLA’s California-based staff to engage our membership base in the development and advancement of CHIRLA’s policy advocacy agenda.

• In collaboration with Director of Policy and Advocacy, Executive Director and consultation with membership base create of annual state policy agenda.
• Work with the Director of Policy and Advocacy to lead CHIRLA’s state policy agenda.
• Under the supervision of the Director of Policy and Advocacy, manage CHIRLA’s support/oppose/neutral positions to legislative/regulatory/budget proposals.
• Advance and implement CHIRLA goals and objectives as they are determined by the organization.
• Assist in developing legislative/regulatory/budget proposals to advance CHIRLA’s agenda.
• Cultivate and maintain positive working relationships with Members of State Legislature, Constitutional Offices, Agencies and Governor’s office.
• Responsible for securing regular meet-and-greets and providing policy analysis to lawmakers and their staff.
• Represent CHIRLA’s position at committee hearings, press conferences, and/or legislative meetings.
• Develop and maintain alliances with immigrant networks to advance CHIRLA’s policy agenda.
• As appropriate, work with the immediate supervisor to develop and implement advocacy strategies and events (to include legislative visits, advocacy days, letters, and call-in campaigns, media relations, hearings, actions, etc.)
• Develop and provide updates, talking points, action alerts, sample letters, etc. as part of advocacy strategies.
• Support CHIRLA staff by providing research and analysis on issues pertaining to immigrant communities.

• Produce state legislative research, developing policy fact sheets, and talking points.
• Monitor, manage and analyze and summarize propose and/or new laws and regulations negatively/positively impacting immigrants.
• Develop monthly content for CHIRLA’s Al Dìa policy newsletter.
• Monitor and analyze state trends and issues related to immigration and ensure a proactive focus on pro-immigrant policies.
• Monitor, analyze and summarize propose and/or new laws and regulations negatively/positively impacting immigrants.
• Work with the Director of Policy and Advocacy, Director of Organizing and coalition partners to facilitate legislative visits and lobby days that engage immigrants directly impacted by our nation’s immigration laws.
• Work with the…