Associate, Rapid Response--Advocacy

Role: Rapid Response Associate

Reports to: Manager of State Legislative Strategy and Rapid Response

Location: Remote

Hours: Full-time/Non Exempt

Salary Range: $29/hour- $ 31.25/hour

About Trevor

The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ young people. We are a non-profit that provides 24/7 life-saving support via phone, text, and chat. We also operate the world’s largest safe space social networking site for LGBTQ youth and run innovative research, education, and advocacy programs. We’ve been saving lives every day for over 20 years.

Overview of the role

The Trevor Project’s Advocacy team seeks to provide high impact programs to help prevent LGBTQ youth from entering crisis and advance The Trevor Project’s mission to end suicide among LGBTQ young people. This includes life-saving advocacy and policy work on a variety of key issues facing LGBTQ youth across the United States such as: ending conversion therapy; advocating for every school in the country to adopt LGBTQ-inclusive suicide prevention policies; expanding the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity data in death records; and fighting against state-level bills targeting trans and nonbinary youth.

The Rapid Response Associate will be a key participant in The Trevor Project’s work to defeat policy attacks on LGBTQ youth. You will assist with tracking and analyzing state legislation, preparing lobbying materials, and developing calls to action, creating, maintaining, and deploying an up-to-date library of best practice resources designed to support movement partners, allied constituencies, and other critical stakeholders in our collective efforts to protect LGBTQ youth. You will also play a central role in coordinating across The Trevor Project’s teams to ensure consistent communication to key stakeholders about advocacy activities, opportunities for engagement, and advances.

Who You Are

• Problem Solver. You have demonstrated skill in getting things done and keeping positive under pressure. You’ve got a track record of operating with urgency and efficiency and are comfortable navigating ambiguity. You know how to identify problems and love to develop plans informed by data to deliver and solve them.
• Process-Oriented. You’ve created processes that have helped your team get the job done efficiently. You are comfortable eliciting and incorporating feedback to refine and update processes.
• Content Creator: You are experienced in creating informational resources and documents. You look for opportunities to design approachable and digestible assets that keep the target audience in mind
• Organized and efficient. You have proven success in balancing multiple complex projects, often with competing due dates, including communicating clearly and concisely. The moment you see a problem, you quickly come up with solutions that you and a team can implement.
• Collaborative and communicative. You have demonstrated the ability to cultivate relationships and collaborative partnerships to allow partnerships with our state and national partners in the LGBTQ movement and mental health sector, acting as a team player with colleagues throughout The Trevor Project,communicating effectively internally and externally and are skilled at giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Resourceful. If you don’t know an answer, you know how to find the answer, and when to ask for help.
• Trustworthy. You handle confidential and sensitive information with humility and discretion.
• Culturally competent.You care about LGBTQ youth and have a nuanced understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ folks. You are willing to learn more about marginalized identities, and bring your awareness to all the work you do.

What You'll Do

• Develop and forge relationships with key organizations, offices, and members of the non-profit sector to build a strong coalition for relevant advocacy needs
• Manage relationships with partner organizations, and support them in LGBTQ advocacy work
• Design and keep organized educational resources on the LGBTQ community and LGBTQ-related policies.
• Collaborate with other members of the Advocacy team to further The Trevor Project’s mission through legislative advocacy and public education efforts.
• Implement processes to gather feedback on Advocacy resources and advocacy strategies
• Produce and analyze data that is relevant to the field, including the creation of reports for public consumption.
• Draft and edit policy memos, comments, letters, talking points, and other advocacy resources.
• Coordinate across The Trevor Project team to enable internal collaboration on advocacy related projects.
• Assist with public education efforts for LGBTQ-relevant policies and suicide prevention support efforts through outreach to policymakers and conference presentations.
• Assist with other Advocacy team duties, as required.

Why Trevor?

• A career that truly makes a difference in the lives of LGBTQ young people–every single day
• Comprehensive health insurance, including coverage for various gender affirmation surgeries (and we pay 100% of your premiums for medical, dental, vision AND basic life insurance)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program to help with confidential emotional support, work life solutions, financial solutions, legal assistance, or online support
• Generous vacation and 12 paid holidays (one of our holidays is Harvey Milk Day!) plus two floating holidays , and three half-day Fridays during the summer
• Pet insurance
• Remote work from the continental US, Alaska, or Hawaii (we provide the technology, a monthly internet reimbursement, and a reimbursement to outfit your work-from-home space!)
• Professional and Learning Development Trainings/Education: including a professional subscription to LinkedIn Learning, providing access to more than 13,000 high quality on-demand courses.
• Online Subscription to Headspace, a digital mindfulness and meditation platform

The Trevor Project provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. The Trevor Project complies with all applicable laws.