Job Number:
HC-03924
Date Posted:
March 16, 2026
Position Title:
Senior Policy Advisor
Party:
N/A
Office Code:
Office/Company:
Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC)
Reports To:
Location:
Washington, DC
Contact:
Salary:
$118,000 – $133,000 (salary commensurate with experience and internal equity principles)
Primary Role
Secondary Role:
Job Type:
Full Time
Description:
The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) is a research and advocacy organization that seeks to improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children, and youth displaced by conflict and crisis.The primary role of the Senior Policy Advisor will be to advance MRJ’s priorities and support the program’s advocacy with policymakers and the public.Minimum 5-6 years of work experience on advocacy related to US immigration, regional migration, and/or gender equality issues.
Responsibilities:
• Under the direction of the Director of Migrant Rights and Justice, engage the US administration and Congress, state and local governments, international organizations, and other relevant institutions and policymakers to advance policies that protect migrant women and families.
• Draft technical materials and tools, reports, technical explainers, one-pagers, tools for service providers, and resources for impacted individuals related to family separation and reunification, immigration detention, deportation, and/or immigrant’s reproductive rights.
• Engage in occasional travel to Central American and Mexico to conduct interviews related to MRJ’s reports and technical materials.
• Participate and, where appropriate, take a leadership role in coalitions and working groups related to state and local policy, federal advocacy, and regional engagement.
• Design and implement advocacy initiatives related to family separation, detention, reproductive rights and justice, and other core MRJ policy areas.
• Draft public facing materials, including statements and blog posts in response to breaking news.
Qualifications:
• Minimum 5-6 years of work experience on advocacy related to US immigration, regional migration, and/or gender equality issues.
• Demonstrated experience in policy advocacy, particularly in Congress.
• Strong understanding of the US immigration system and ability to understand how changing laws and policies will impact migrant populations.
• Expertise in at least one of MRJ’s core issue areas, including family separation and reunification, detention, child welfare, regional migration, and/or reproductive rights.
• Ability to design technical tools around family separation, detention, deportation, and/or regional migration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: proven ability to effectively communicate complex issues in a clear manner to multiple and diverse audiences and to produce persuasive advocacy materials for a range of audiences.
Instructions:
Interested candidates must submit a cover letter and resume via this LINK.
Other:
WRC recognizes that many excellent candidates will meet some, but not all, listed qualifications.
