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REPRO Rising Virginia: Policy Director Jobs in Richmond, USA at Arena
Policy Director
REPRO Rising Virginia (RRVA) is pleased to relaunch the search for its next Policy Director to join a new leadership team and report directly to the Executive Director.
RRVA is at a point of exciting transformation as we build our team to meet the demands of a post-Roe landscape and help lead the passage of a state Constitutional Amendment for Reproductive Freedom. This year we will also be closing out our 2026 strategic plan and looking creatively and ambitiously to plan for the future to ensure that every Virginian can make personal reproductive healthcare decisions without shame, stigma, or interference.
The Policy Director will play a key role in driving RRVA’s mission to protect and advance reproductive freedom and build political power. They will be instrumental in setting policy and legislative strategy; analyzing and drafting legislative language and collaboratively working across the team and coalitions to advocate to policymakers; and will contribute to organizational leadership, strategy, and management of the RRVA team.
The Policy Director will join a diverse team that prides itself on being highly collaborative, supportive, tenacious, and passionate about our mission and showing up for each other. The team is looking for a Policy Director who: actively fosters and lives those values; has proven leadership in setting and executing policy and advocacy goals and strategies, lobbying policymakers, and writing and analyzing legislative language;
is a thoughtful and eager collaborator internally and across coalitions; and is passionate about reproductive rights and access in Virginia.
About REPRO Rising Virginia:
REPRO Rising Virginia is a trusted leader in the fight to establish laws and policies that ensure real, reliable, affordable, and timely access to abortion, contraception, and other reproductive health services for every person in Virginia. We work with community and state-based partners to connect this work to a broader reproductive health, rights, and freedom framework. In our efforts, we seek to center the needs and voices of those most affected by reproductive injustice and to deepen our understanding and practice of intersectionality and justice, in both our internal practice and external programs.
Ultimately, we seek to ensure that every person in the Commonwealth of Virginia has access to comprehensive and high-quality reproductive health information and services free of stigma or coercion.
We are an independent, state-based advocacy organization leading the charge for reproductive rights and freedom across the Commonwealth. We are a team of progressive people deeply committed to reproductive rights and freedom striving to support each other as we work to secure reproductive rights and equity to the people of Virginia. Our team is collaborative and supportive; we encourage asking for help when it is needed and often pitch in across teams when things get busy.
We are diverse and visionary thinkers. We value diversity of lived experience, and we welcome bold and creative ideas and ensure space to test those ideas. We own areas of work and decisions within a collaborative team. We believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more creative and more resilient organization.
RRVA is made up of three entities: our main 501(c)(4) policy and political arm; the 501(c)(3) REPRO Rising Virginia Foundation, which oversees our issue advocacy, culture change and education programming; and the REPRO Rising Virginia Political Action Committee which works to elect pro- reproductive freedom candidates. Our team members are located across offices in Alexandria and Richmond.
About the Role:
The Policy Director is a strategic leader within RRVA and is responsible for shaping and implementing our policy and legislative programming. Working closely with the Executive Director and joining a new leadership team, the Policy Director will hire and supervise a policy associate and lead in the following areas:
- Set policy and legislative strategy – Execute ongoing strategies to ensure Virginia passes the Constitutional Amendment for Reproductive Freedom in November…
Title: REPRO Rising Virginia: Policy Director
Company: Arena
Location: Richmond, USA
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