Western Regional Director

The Young People’s Alliance is a bipartisan, youth-led nonprofit that organizes over 4,000 young people across 90 campuses to advocate for pragmatic solutions to the most pressing challenges facing our generation. We develop and pass innovative policy solutions to address challenges around affordability, economic opportunity, and community, with a particular focus on how technology is reshaping all three, to help young people reclaim the American Dream.

Our team has passed legislation in multiple states, mobilized tens of thousands of students to vote, and is a recognized leader on emerging issues like AI companions, social media design, and the future of work.

We are looking for a talented candidate to become our Western Regional Director, functioning as an executive leader for our operations in the Western U.S. The Regional Director will oversee legislative advocacy, major organizing activations, and other campaigns in the Western U.S., with a particular emphasis on building YPA's presence in California.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Advocacy Initiatives: Lobby elected officials, coordinate major campaigns, and testify on bills (approx 50% of time).
• Build YPA's Western Presence: Form strong relationships with partner organizations, current and potential funders, reporters, and other influential stakeholders (approx. 25% of time).
• Mobilize Western YPA Members: Coordinate with our Western campus chapters to involve students in advocacy, connect them to policy leaders, and plan statewide/regional activations (approx 25% of time).

Benefits:

• Create lasting impact: Play a leading role in building an institution that gives young people real political power, as we scale our impact nationwide and improve youth representation in politics for generations to come. 
• Solve our generation's largest problems: Work at the forefront of some of the most pressing and exciting problems, such AI's impact on the future of work, affordable housing, and designing technology to preserve community and agency.
• Grow into a leader: Lead YPA's regional legislative, movement-building, and organizational visioning initiatives with the chance to fundraise and build a team around yourself.
• Join an ambitious community: Work alongside a youth-led team of accomplished, entrepreneurial, and hardworking individuals. 

This role is the right fit for the following person:

• Track record of high agency and self-direction.
• Background in advocacy, organizing, policy, or political work; OR background in entrepreneurship, startup operations, or building organizations with a strong interest in politics.
• Open to recent college graduates (and drops outs) or folks with a few years of experience.
• Highly driven individual who is ready to regularly work >40 hour weeks and respond to urgent policy developments outside of regular hours.
• Non-stop drive to build young people's political power.

Salary: $80,000 – $100,000/year depending on experience.

Benefits: Health insurance (50% employer-paid) and 401(k) available.

Location: Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area or Sacramento.

Timing: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. All new hires are evaluated under a 90-day probationary period.