The State Advocacy Manager is responsible for executing state policy and legislative campaigns and seeking opportunities to work with state-based partners interested in advancing components of USofCare’s proactive policy agenda, which is shaped by USofCare’s research about what people need and want from the health care system (view our 2025 State Policy Priorities here). The State Advocacy Manager should be familiar with current health care policy issues and should be able to think strategically about how USofCare can navigate the current political landscape in any given state in order to advance USofCare’s objectives. This position will engage with state-level advocates, policymakers, and other stakeholders and will require building strategic relationships with a variety of stakeholders to respond to needs as they arise. The State Advocacy Manager may work on a variety of issue-specific campaigns; in the near-term this includes expanding access to health insurance coverage through public programs (including Medicaid) and public health insurance options, improving the affordability of health care by addressing hospital prices and hospital consolidation, reducing out-of-pocket costs for consumers by eliminating facility fee, and ensuring access to preventive and primary care.
The day to day work for the State Advocacy Manager will include managing issue-specific campaigns in a portfolio of states, including developing work plans, representing USofCare at meetings, facilitating meetings with state partners, policymakers, health care industry stakeholders and other external partners, identifying campaign messaging and collateral needs like fact sheets and talking points, and working with vendors and contractors. The State Advocacy Manager will provide project management and legislative tracking in their portfolio of states and be responsible for project-based grant deliverables, conduct analysis necessary to inform organizational positions on various health care issues, and identify new opportunities for state campaigns with USofCare team members and relevant state partners.
Working in close collaboration with the entire USofCare State Policy & Advocacy team, the State Advocacy Manager will report to the Senior Director of State Policy & Advocacy and may be responsible for overseeing the work of junior staff and/or managing interns.