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State Government Affairs Specialist

State Government Affairs Specialist
Organization: Comcast
Location: Washington, DC
Date Posted: 07/31/2024

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### Job Summary

Reporting to the Vice President of Policy and Operations for State Government Affairs, this role will provide crucial support to the state legislative and regulatory affairs policy teams, including complex bill and docket tracking, reporting, and high-level administrative responsibilities. Provides support for budget planning, spending, and tracking for both legislative and regulatory departments. This position is suitable for a generalist who can be assigned to a regular set of responsibilities, but who can also be available for special projects and short-turnaround assignments.

### Job Description

#### Core Responsibilities
– Responsible for data entry for state legislative bills and regulatory dockets impacting Comcast businesses.
– Document management in SharePoint sites, as well as production process management for various policy briefs, plans, reports, and guides.
– High-level administrative budget management for state legislative and regulatory government affairs budget.
– Strong ability to manage, analyze, and synthesize large sets of information into various usable formats.
– Responsible for various administrative tasks for state legislative and regulatory policy teams.
– Research and develop policy position papers, reports, and other policy-related materials.
– Assist state legislative and regulatory teams in navigating corporate subject matter experts.
– Maintains and builds relationships with internal subject matter experts.
– Assists with projects related to community affairs.
– Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) and overtime as necessary.
– Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

### Professional Experience & Qualifications
– Ability to work independently and use judgment to problem-solve unique and challenging issues as they arise.
– Proven exceptional consulting, facilitation, and client relationship management skills.
– Strong team player willing to assist the department in various tasks.
– Ability to manage multiple priorities and possess good organizational skills.
– Ability to maintain confidentiality and represent Comcast in a positive, professional manner.
– Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively.
– Strong presentation and communication skills, able to effectively communicate in both written and oral form.
– Proven excellent project management skills.
– Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
– Ability to work with online issue management and tracking tools.
– Exceptional time management and strong eye for detail.
– Practices good judgment, discretion, and confidentiality of sensitive information regarding department activities.
– Ability to work in a fast-paced environment; occasional nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
– Position may be mostly remote; regular connectedness and communication via phone and email are essential.
– Helpful, but not essential, if the candidate has experience with state legislative processes.

### Job Specification
– Some government affairs or political experience preferred.
– Requires 5+ years of experience.

### Education Level
– Bachelor’s Degree.

### Employees at All Levels Are Expected To
– Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
– Own the customer experience – think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
– Know your stuff – be enthusiastic learners, users, and advocates of our game-changing technology, products, and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
– Win as a team – make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
– Be an active part of the Net Promoter System – a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company – by joining huddles, making callbacks, and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
– Drive results and growth.
– Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
– Do what’s right for each other, our customers, investors, and our communities.

### Disclaimer

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications. Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

### Salary

Primary Location Pay Range: $36.19 – $54.29

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date the job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance, and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially, and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

### Education

Bachelor’s Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

### Relevant Work Experience

2-5 Years

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