Description

Job Title: Policy Director 

Location: Remote, with a strong preference for candidates based in the Washington, D.C. (DMV) area.

Employment Type: Full-time 

Reports To: Executive Director

ABOUT MOTHERS AGAINST MEDIA ADDICTION (MAMA)

MAMA’s mission is to end childhood screen addiction, support families in raising healthy kids, and prevent runaway tech. We do this by educating parents, getting smartphones out of schools, and ensuring technology products have basic safeguards like other consumer products.

Our goal is to live in a world where real-life experiences and interactions remain at the heart of a healthy childhood.

In a short period of time, MAMA has built something rare: a wide-funnel home for parents and caregivers who are looking for meaningful ways to engage. As public concern about social media, artificial intelligence (AI), and tech harms has surged, MAMA has become a trusted national voice and a front-page presence in conversations about accountability and reform.

We have built a strong and growing network of chapter leaders across the country and have proven that there is deep demand for this work. Now, we are entering the next phase of our growth.

This is a scale moment.

MAMA is investing in leadership to turn momentum into durable grassroots power, building the systems, infrastructure, and strategy necessary to grow aggressively and responsibly, deepen impact in priority states, and institutionalize our organizing model for long-term success.

POSITION OVERVIEW

MAMA is hiring its first Policy Director. Reporting to the Executive Director and serving as a member of the senior leadership team, the Policy Director will own MAMA's legislative and coalition strategy at the state and federal level.

This is not a traditional policy shop role. MAMA is not building an internal legislative drafting operation at this time. We work alongside strong coalition partners who handle technical policy development and bill drafting. What we need is someone who reads the legislative landscape at both the state and federal level, leads MAMA's institutional relationships in DC and with national coalition partners, and knows how to translate legislative opportunity into clear pressure points for the organizing team to act on. 

MAMA’s Policy Director does not have to be a state or federal policy expert. Rather, they are the person who sees where legislative opportunity exists, knows which coalition partners have capacity to move on it, and understands when the conditions are right for grassroots pressure to matter.

This is a builder role. The Policy Director will help lead the next phase of MAMA's growth by strengthening advocacy infrastructure, deepening coalition relationships, and helping convert MAMA's expanding grassroots network into coordinated legislative influence and measurable impact.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FIRST 6-12 MONTHS

• The policy and legislative landscape at the state and federal level is being actively tracked and translated into clear strategic priorities, identifying where legislative opportunity exists, which decision-makers matter, and what pressure points the organizing team needs to move on.
• Policy strategy and organizing strategy are operating in close coordination with the National Organizing Director. The Policy Director owns the legislative landscape and the organizational response. The organizing team owns the advocacy strategy and grassroots mobilization needed to influence the decision-makers the Policy Director has identified.
• Senior leadership has consistent visibility into legislative and policy developments, coalition dynamics, advocacy opportunities, and emerging risks.
• MAMA’s Members and Chapter Leaders are being equipped and activated at key moments, including testifying, engaging legislators and participating in days of advocacy, in coordination with the organizing team, which drives the mobilization strategy and manages member engagement infrastructure.
• MAMA has stronger relationships with federal lawmakers, Hill staff, DC-based coalition partners, and national advocacy organizations, and there is a clear and working division of labor with the organizing team on state and Chapter-level coalition relationships.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Policy

• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team and translate policy developments, coalition intelligence, and political opportunities into actionable organizational priorities.
• Track and analyze the state and federal legislative landscape to identify emerging opportunities, pressure points, and risks, and communicate findings clearly to the organizing team, senior leadership, and coalition partners.
• Build and maintain relationships with federal lawmakers, Hill staff, and DC-based coalition partners to advance MAMA’s congressional priorities, strengthen coalition positioning, and identify emerging legislative opportunities.
• Stay current on state legislative dynamics in priority states, not as a technical state policy expert, but as a strategic reader of where opportunity exists and responder when coalition partners or chapter leaders need to be activated.
• Draft and edit letters to lawmakers and leaders on behalf of the organization. Determine which letters of support the organization should and should not sign.
• Testify, participate in panels, speak at events, and represent MAMA in coalition spaces when appropriate.

Advocacy

• In coordination with the National Organizing Director, maintain a shared understanding of priority legislative targets at the state and federal level, identifying the decision-makers who matter and the conditions needed to influence them.
• Own MAMA’s participation in federal and DC-based coalition meetings. Work with the National Organizing Director to divide and prioritize coalition engagement across both roles based on strategic importance and relationship fit.
• Provide a weekly briefing to MAMA’s senior leadership on legislative developments, coalition dynamics, emerging opportunities, and risks.
• Translate legislative opportunity into clear pressure points and strategic direction that the organizing team can use to develop advocacy campaigns and mobilize members.
• Build and maintain relationships with key federal and state lawmakers, coalition partners, and external stakeholders to advance MAMA’s advocacy priorities.

Organizing Support

• Work with the National Organizing Director to maintain a shared landscape analysis of priority states and regions, integrating legislative opportunity, coalition strength, and chapter capacity, to inform both policy and organizing strategy.
• Serve as a strategic resource to the organizing team on legislative context, coalition intelligence, and policy developments that affect organizing priorities.
• Support Chapter Leaders at key advocacy moments, including testifying, legislator meetings, and days of advocacy, by providing policy knowledge, preparation, and direct engagement when appropriate. (Mobilization and chapter relationship management remain with the organizing team.)

Communications Support

• Partner with Organizing and Communications teams to elevate parent and caregiver voices and Chapter Leaders in support of MAMA’s advocacy and legislative priorities.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• 8-10+ years of experience in federal, congressional advocacy or coalition strategy, with the aptitude to identify state legislative trends and opportunities that have national implications
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining relationships with federal lawmakers, Hill staff, and DC-based advocacy coalitions
• Proven ability to read a legislative landscape and identify strategic opportunities
• Experience working alongside or in close partnership with an organizing or grassroots team to advance policy goals
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment where infrastructure is still being built
• Conviction that culture change and public narrative are essential tools for achieving policy wins and that they strengthen legislative strategy.
• Strong written and verbal communicator, able to translate complex policy dynamics for non-expert audiences
• Passion for protecting kids and families and genuine interest in MAMA’s issue space

 Preferred

• Experience at an organization in an early or high-growth stage, where systems and strategy were built rather than inherited
• Familiarity with state legislative dynamics in priority states for children’s tech policy
• Experience representing an organization publicly, including testifying, speaking at events, or participating in coalitions