Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions.
At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements:
Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least twice per week
Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per week
Hybrid 2 (Operational Roles such as but not limited to: Customer Service, Claims Processors, and Correspondence positions): must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month
Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job
Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building
Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per week.
This position is hybrid within the state of AZ only. This hybrid work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.
- Assists Director, Government Relations in managing corporate legislative affairs and public policy on local, state and federal level. Identifies and tracks legislation, develops policy, represents corporation in Congress, the legislature and the community on legislative and health policy issues
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Work Experience
- 5 years of legislative, congressional, or public policy experience
Required Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, legal studies, history, healthcare administration, or related field
Required Licenses
- N/A
Required Certifications
- N/A
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred Work Experience- 10 years of legislative, congressional, or public policy experience
- 5 years of experience in a healthcare, health insurance, or other insurance field
- Master’s Degree in business, healthcare administration, public policy, or related field of study
- Juris Doctor Degree
- N/A
- N/A
- Assist in supervising corporation's government relations activities on local, state and federal levels, involving local and state elected officials, Congress and key state and federal agencies.
- Manage legislative issues including lobbying lawmakers, contacting staff, negotiating with stakeholders, preparing amendments, and testifying in committee.
- Identify, summarize and track legislation that impacts the corporation and help develop corporate positions on public policy issues.
- Develop and execute strategies to address public policy issues affecting the corporation.
- Develop internal and external communications on legislative and health policy issues. Draft and present legislative and political updates for provider and broker newsletters, PAC members, management and other groups.
- Research health care, health insurance and legislative issues and stay up to date on health care and health insurance trends.
- Work with chambers of commerce and other associations and stakeholders. Take the lead in at least one chamber’s public affairs committee.
- Serve as corporation's alternate congressional relations coordinator and state relations coordinator for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. Attend Association meetings and participate in Association conference calls.
- Foster and maintain positive relationships with lawmakers, Governor’s Office, business organizations and community leaders to enhance the corporation’s public policy positions.
- Assist in managing the corporation’s political action committee (PAC), including drafting contribution requests and managing the approval process, writing political updates for members, coordinating meetings, tracking all PAC and executive contributions, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Attend political fundraising events as a representative of the PAC and Corporation.
- Oversee compliance with state lobbying disclosure laws and reporting.
- Assist employees of the corporation who wish to become involved in the political process.
- The position has an onsite expectation of 2 days per week and requires a full-time work schedule. Full-time is defined as working at least 40 hours per week, plus any additional hours as requested or as needed to meet business requirements.
- Perform all other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
Required Job Skills
- Intermediate skill in use of office equipment, including copies, fax machines, scanner and telephones
- Intermediate PC proficiency
- Intermediate proficiency in spreadsheet, database, and word processing
Required Professional Competencies
- Maintain confidentiality and privacy
- Analytical knowledge necessary to generate reports based on available data and then make decisions based on reported data
- Capable of legal and analytical research
- Ability to synthesize legislation, identify key issues, and analyze their impact on the corporation
- Strong writing skills and the ability to translate complex insurance legislation into simple, clear language
- Understanding of the legislative process
- Refined public speaking skills
- Ability to capably and tactfully convey Corporation’s position, combined with the maturity and judgment needed to discuss sensitive issues with policymakers and handle impromptu questions
Required Leadership Experience and Competencies
- Ability to cultivate strong relationships necessary to develop and promote favorable public policy agendas
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
Preferred Job Skills
- N/A
Preferred Professional Competencies
- Knowledge of a wide range of subjects pertaining to the organization's service and operations.
Preferred Leadership Experience and Competencies
- N/A
Our Commitment
AZ Blue does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected group.
Thank you for your interest in Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. For more information on our company, see azblue.com. If interested in this position, please apply.
Skills Required
- At least 5 years of legislative, congressional, or public policy experience
- Bachelor's degree in business, legal studies, history, healthcare administration, or a related field
- At least 10 years of legislative, congressional, or public policy experience
- At least 5 years of experience in healthcare, health insurance, or another insurance field
- Master's degree in business, healthcare administration, public policy, or a related field
- Juris Doctor degree
- Intermediate PC proficiency
- Intermediate proficiency with spreadsheet, database, and word processing software
- Ability to conduct legal and analytical research
- Understanding of the legislative process
- Strong writing and public speaking skills
- Ability to analyze legislation and communicate effectively with policymakers
- Arizona residency and ability to work onsite two days per week
What We Do
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona is a non-profit health insurance company dedicated to improving the health of Arizonans by providing insurance plans and related services.
