The Director, State Affairs leads Humana’s state advocacy and government engagement strategy across Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. This role advances Humana’s policy priorities, strengthens key state relationships, and supports business growth through strategic advocacy and public sector engagement. As the face of Humana in priority states, the Director ensures a coordinated, enterprise-wide approach to legislative and regulatory activity. This role reports to the VP, Strategy & State Affairs.
What You Will Do
- Lead state advocacy and government engagement efforts across CO, NM, and TX.
- Develop and execute political engagement plans.
- Serve as a trusted partner to state officials, including Governor’s offices, State Attorneys General, Departments of Insurance, Medicaid agencies, legislatures, state boards and regulators.
- Advance Humana’s legislative, regulatory, and public sector business priorities.
- Partner with internal leaders to align advocacy strategies with market growth and operational goals.
- Support state and local government procurement opportunities.
- Monitor/identify/escalate emerging state policy issues, working with state policy team to determine appropriate advocacy and messaging to mitigate risk and create opportunity.
- Manage external consultants and advocacy partners, including state trade associations, to drive coordinated outcomes.
- Deliver clear, timely insights on policy issues to internal stakeholders.
- Develop strategies for engagements with traditional and non-traditional alliances/organizations to advance the company’s advocacy and reputation development agenda.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Must reside and work from the Austin, TX area.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as public policy, communications, health policy, political science, or business.
- 8+ years of professional experience in state government, government affairs, campaigns, health policy, and/or advocacy roles.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing advocacy strategies at the state level, with significant, hands-on experience navigating the Texas landscape and a clear track record of achieving both short- and long-term policy or business objectives.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate complex information and produce high-quality work under tight deadlines.
- Deep understanding of legislative and regulatory processes, and how the broader state political and public policy environment impacts business outcomes.
- Proven ability to operate effectively within a highly matrixed, fast-paced organization.
- Knowledge of Medicaid programs, with a strong preference for familiarity with Texas Medicaid.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a related field.
Additional Information
- Remote position in Austin, TX area
- 25% travel
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Skills Required
- Must reside and work from the Austin, TX area
- Bachelor's degree in public policy, communications, health policy, political science, business, or related field
- 8+ years professional experience in state government, government affairs, campaigns, health policy, and/or advocacy roles
- Demonstrated success developing and executing state-level advocacy strategies and navigating the Texas landscape
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to convey complex information under tight deadlines
- Deep understanding of legislative and regulatory processes and their impact on business outcomes
- Proven ability to operate effectively within a highly matrixed, fast-paced organization
- Knowledge of Medicaid programs
- Familiarity with Texas Medicaid
- Master's degree in a related field
Humana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Humana and has not been reviewed or approved by Humana.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance are offered alongside on-site/virtual wellness resources and weekly paid well-being time, indicating a whole-person focus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid PTO and holidays, volunteer time, and formal leave options such as parental and caregiver time provide broad time-away support. Adoption assistance and lactation rooms extend coverage for key life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match anchors long-term savings. Employer-matched emergency savings programs complement retirement planning.
Humana Insights
What We Do
At Humana, our cultural foundation is aligned to helping members achieve their best health by delivering personalized, simplified, whole-person healthcare experiences. Recognizing healthcare needs continue to evolve for each person, for each family and for each community, Humana continuously creates innovative solutions and resources that help people live their healthiest lives on their terms –when and where they need it. Our employees are at the heart of making this happen and that’s why we are dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first.
