Director Grassroots Advocacy

### ICBA – Director Grassroots Advocacy

The Independent Community Bankers of America® is the nation’s voice for community banks. Join our team to be part of our mission to create and promote an environment where community banks flourish. Our organization values innovation, diversity, entrepreneurial spirit, and people passionate about serving our nation’s community banks. We are consistently ranked a top advocacy organization in Washington, DC, and offer our team competitive benefits, compensation, and work-life balance.

### Summary

The Director for Grassroots Advocacy will support and expand the scope of ICBA’s grassroots advocacy to advance policy change with the Executive, Congressional, and Judicial branches of government as well as the bank regulatory agencies. Expand advocacy engagement from grasstops bankers, state-level groups, and like-minded trade associations and organizations.

### Duties & Responsibilities

– Develop grassroots messages on federal legislative and regulatory issues and facilitate routine dissemination of such information to members of Congress, congressional staff, and community bankers nationwide.
– Develop and support a robust system to ensure community bankers can comment directly on bank regulatory agency proposals and requests for information (RFIs).
– Increase the number of community banker grassroots and grasstops engagements with the regulatory agencies on bank regulatory proposals.
– Assist in preparing advocacy materials, toolkits, fact sheets, and social media content.
– Build and deploy a network of like-minded associations and trade groups to join in ICBA advocacy efforts.
– Grow grassroots advocacy engagement from ICBA-affiliated state groups.
– Facilitate regional advocacy engagement and in-state meetings, providing needed grassroots advocacy materials to community bankers across the country.
– Work closely with other Government Relations team members and partners to align advocacy efforts to amplify the impact.
– Assist in tracking and analyzing grassroots advocacy engagement metrics to assess the effectiveness of outreach efforts and adjust strategies as needed.
– Establish and maintain relationships with other grassroots professionals, trade associations, and coalitions.
– Support the Government Relations team and Grassroots team on the execution of ICBA’s annual Capital Summit advocacy fly-in.
– Represent the association at industry events.

### Qualifications

– Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in public policy or related field of study.
– Minimum of three years of related government or trade association experience.
– Familiarity with the federal legislative and regulatory process.
– Self-starter with the ability to work independently and contribute to a team effort.
– Experience in establishing or managing a formal grassroots program.
– Familiarity with current grassroots tools (e.g., Quorum) and technologies to execute and monitor an advocacy campaign.
– Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with internal and external colleagues as needed.
– Ability to interface well with member bankers.
– Ability to showcase advocacy as a key member benefit.
– Ability to travel as needed.

### Job Details

– **Job Family**: ICBA
– **Pay Type**: Salary
– **Employment Indicator**: Government Relations
– **Education Level**: Bachelor’s Degree
– **Travel Required**: Yes
– **Hiring Min Rate**: $84,000 USD
– **Hiring Max Rate**: $105,000 USD

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