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About the Role

Young Invincibles (YI) is seeking a policy engagement coordinator with methodological and data analysis skills to drive research and advocacy on health care, higher education, and workforce issues facing young adults. This role blends data and policy analysis with young adult grassroots advocacy, focusing on Texas legislative policy work, organizing, coalition building, and youth storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Access, clean, and analyze large-scale public datasets and research to support research initiatives for the national and Texas offices.
• Assist with drafting policy reports, issue briefs, and fact sheets that analyze health care, employment, and education policy.
• Translate data into clear, compelling visuals and graphics for campaigns and presentations to policymakers, partner organizations, and stakeholders.
• Coordinate with policy, communications, and organizing teams to develop Texas specific policy positions across all of YI’s issue areas.
• Build relationships with policy decision makers, partner organizations, young adults leaders, and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Regional Director, Southern Policy and Advocacy Manager, and Youth Advisory Board to develop the interim policy and ensure youth voices guide our research.
• Translate complex state and federal healthcare policy (including defending the ACA) into accessible concepts that young adults can understand and organize around.
• Collaborate with local partners to organize community events and tabling to build YI’s young adult base.
• Present and help facilitate training, activities, and workshops, including but not limited to YI’s Health insurance literacy (HIL) training, mental health, and student debt and financial aid.
• Assist with conducting in-person outreach and building partnerships to reach uninsured young people.
• Collaborate with our Communications team to represent YI in the media, at hearings, and at various conferences.
• Co-lead YI’s Content Camp, ensuring young adults are meeting cohort deliverables.
• Lead efforts to capture the lived experiences of young Texans navigating issues related to healthcare and student debt.
• Support the Fall and Spring YAP cohorts by working to help design and deliver Texas-specific trainings.
• Partner with the National Director of Policy Research on survey design and input gathered from YAP cohorts.
• Serve as a core YI representative and collaborator within statewide healthcare advocacy networks.
• Help lead the planning and execution of the annual Texas State of Open Enrollment Conference in the Fall.
• Attend quarterly stakeholder meetings to report on progress and project outcomes.
• Perform other duties as assigned for meeting the Texas policy, organizing, and campaign needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant policy and research experience in social sciences, such as education, health care, workforce, political science, economics, and/or related fields.
• Two years of experience in political advocacy, specifically in Texas cities (e.g., Austin, Dallas, and Houston).
• Familiarity with Texas state policy issues related to health care, higher education, mental health, workforce, and civic engagement.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel.
• Knowledge of accessing, downloading, cleaning, and analyzing publicly available data (e.g., IPEDS and the U.S. Census Bureau).
• Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills and a solid understanding of statistical methods used in social science and economic research (e.g., linear regression, quasi-experimental methods, survey design).
• Completion of coursework demonstrating experience in statistics.
• Two or more years conducting interviews, focus groups, and case studies.
• Knowledge of survey platforms (e.g., Qualtrics, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey).
• Experience working with large scale datasets and statistical software (e.g., STATA and/or R).
• Ability to work on multiple projects and establish project/task priorities.
• Community/Campus organizing experience, including identifying needs, building relationships, and influencing change.
• Exceptional writing and communication skills.
• Experience writing fact sheets, blog posts, policy briefs, white papers, research reports, etc.
• Technical assistance experience preferred.
• Grant-writing experience preferred.
• Provide one writing sample demonstrating ability to analyze complex policy issues, synthesize information, communicate dense information clearly, and apply data analysis or evidence-based reasoning.
• Provide at least three references that speak to policy, research, and related work.

Skills

• Methodological and data analysis
• Health care policy
• Higher education policy
• Workforce issues
• Grassroots advocacy
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Data visualization
• Policy translation
• Campaign development
• Community organizing
• Coalition building
• Youth storytelling
• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel)
• Publicly available data analysis
• Quantitative research
• Qualitative research
• Statistical methods
• Survey design
• Survey platforms (Qualtrics, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey)
• Statistical software (STATA, R)
• Project management
• Writing
• Communication
• Technical assistance
• Grant writing

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Full-time
• Contract

Experience Level

• 2+ years of relevant policy and research experience
• Two years of experience in political advocacy
• Two or more years conducting interviews, focus groups, and case studies

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

• $21/hourly

About the Company

• Young Invincibles’ mission is to amplify the voices of young adults in the political process and expand economic opportunity for our generation.
• We envision a world of opportunity, cooperation, and abundance.
• We work to ensure political, educational, social, and economic equality for young people by understanding the complex and interconnected systems of power and white supremacy that created entrenched inequities.
• We hope that young adult leaders will be viewed by society as the change agents that they are by inserting themselves into political conversations to address systemic barriers.