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Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Government Relations Manager/Public Affairs Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll support the development and implementation of engagement plans that result in favorable policy and infrastructure project outcomes primarily in Santa Barbara County and in parts of Ventura County, to help safely deliver reliable, clean and affordable electricity. As a Government Relations Manager/Public Affairs Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future? Core responsibilities include growing and maintaining relationships as well as building consensus with key stakeholders, including government officials/associations, community leaders, and business associations/coalitions. The Advisor works closely with internal teams to understand policy priorities and key infrastructure projects. They collaborate on educating stakeholders, gathering feedback from customers, explaining complex internal processes, mitigating reputation/brand risks, developing advocacy messages and government relations approaches to drive favorable outcomes. The Advisor provides support in an assigned role for the Organizational Unit (OU) and company emergency response. After hours, night and weekend duty rotation may be required. The Advisor also develops and tracks performance metrics.
Incident Management Team Expected Participation: Employees are expected to support emergency response and/or business continuity efforts, including readiness to serve on an Incident Management Team (IMT) when needed. Employees will participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every four to six weeks), to support IMT activations during emergency events. IMT assignments may differ from an individual’s regular responsibilities.
As a Government Relations Manager/Public Affairs Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?
Responsibilities
- Engages with a broader set of officials and maintains existing relationships; leads smaller strategic relationship building projects focusing on select SCE initiatives.
- Proposes and shapes the content and topics of discussion, ensuring relevance to business activities; engages directly with government officials at gatherings.
- Prepares and proofreads correspondence, forms and other documents, and coordinates the communication of information from the Government Affairs office to internal stakeholders interested in topics related to strategic initiatives, agency actions, and legislative proposals.
- Manages sections or specific aspects of the reports; reviews data for accuracy ensuring all report criteria are met, and verifies that the reports adhere to the guidelines set by LDA and FEC.
- Drafts and delivers reports for the corporate office as well as briefing notes for senior management to outline issues that may impact the company's operations and project developments.
- Develops multiple pieces of policy content ensuring coherence and consistency; engages with internal and external stakeholders to refine content.
- Implements and acts on opportunities to streamline administrative processes associated with managing the office.
- Supports outreach to industry lobbying coalitions on priority issues.
- Incident Management Team (IMT) Participation: When needed, incumbents in this job are required to serve as members of the Incident Management Team (IMT) to support emergency response and business continuity efforts. This essential function includes on-call availability on a rotating basis (approximately every four to six weeks), the ability to work extended hours up to 12-hour shifts during IMT activations, flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as operationally necessary during emergency events, readiness to report in person to the Irwindale location on short notice, completion and maintenance of required IMT training and qualifications, and the performance of assigned IMT duties that may differ from regular responsibilities. These requirements are considered essential functions of the role.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Seven or more years of experience working in public affairs, government relations, or community relations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Political Science, Business, or related field.
- Experience in helping to manage candidate, ballot measure and/or issue advocacy campaigns.
- Experience managing infrastructure and public involvement activities.
- Experience working closely with local governments.
- Strong strategic, analytical, and planning skills.
- Effective decision making, results delivery, and team building.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with a strong attention to detail.
- Experience working in the energy industry.
- Ability to analyze, summarize and recommend ideas and concepts to senior management in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
- Strong ethics, people skills, and the ability to optimally manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
- Strong organizational skills with an elevated level of initiative and ability to effectively interface and collaborate with partners to help drive solutions and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
- Ability to handle and support multiple projects concurrently.
- Familiarity with social media tools for monitoring and engaging with stakeholders.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- This position will require reporting to SCE's Service Center in Goleta, CA. Reporting to another SCE facility in Ventura County may be considered based on the successful candidate's home location.
- Position will require up to 30% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- Relocation does not apply to this position.
- This position is eligible for a location-based incentive. Incentive is offered if commitment is made to work on-site and to remain in specified work location for an agreed-upon timeframe.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Santa Barbara
Nearest Secondary Market: Santa Maria
Join the Clean Energy Revolution
Become a Government Relations Manager/Public Affairs Advisor at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll support the development and implementation of engagement plans that result in favorable policy and infrastructure project outcomes primarily in Santa Barbara County and in parts of Ventura County, to help safely deliver reliable, clean and affordable electricity. As a Government Relations Manager/Public Affairs Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future? Core responsibilities include growing and maintaining relationships as well as building consensus with key stakeholders, including government officials/associations, community leaders, and business associations/coalitions. The Advisor works closely with internal teams to understand policy priorities and key infrastructure projects. They collaborate on educating stakeholders, gathering feedback from customers, explaining complex internal processes, mitigating reputation/brand risks, developing advocacy messages and government relations approaches to drive favorable outcomes. The Advisor provides support in an assigned role for the Organizational Unit (OU) and company emergency response. After hours, night and weekend duty rotation may be required. The Advisor also develops and tracks performance metrics.
Incident Management Team Expected Participation: Employees are expected to support emergency response and/or business continuity efforts, including readiness to serve on an Incident Management Team (IMT) when needed. Employees will participate in an on-call rotation (approximately every four to six weeks), to support IMT activations during emergency events. IMT assignments may differ from an individual’s regular responsibilities.
As a Government Relations Manager/Public Affairs Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?
Responsibilities
- Engages with a broader set of officials and maintains existing relationships; leads smaller strategic relationship building projects focusing on select SCE initiatives.
- Proposes and shapes the content and topics of discussion, ensuring relevance to business activities; engages directly with government officials at gatherings.
- Prepares and proofreads correspondence, forms and other documents, and coordinates the communication of information from the Government Affairs office to internal stakeholders interested in topics related to strategic initiatives, agency actions, and legislative proposals.
- Manages sections or specific aspects of the reports; reviews data for accuracy ensuring all report criteria are met, and verifies that the reports adhere to the guidelines set by LDA and FEC.
- Drafts and delivers reports for the corporate office as well as briefing notes for senior management to outline issues that may impact the company's operations and project developments.
- Develops multiple pieces of policy content ensuring coherence and consistency; engages with internal and external stakeholders to refine content.
- Implements and acts on opportunities to streamline administrative processes associated with managing the office.
- Supports outreach to industry lobbying coalitions on priority issues.
- Incident Management Team (IMT) Participation: When needed, incumbents in this job are required to serve as members of the Incident Management Team (IMT) to support emergency response and business continuity efforts. This essential function includes on-call availability on a rotating basis (approximately every four to six weeks), the ability to work extended hours up to 12-hour shifts during IMT activations, flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as operationally necessary during emergency events, readiness to report in person to the Irwindale location on short notice, completion and maintenance of required IMT training and qualifications, and the performance of assigned IMT duties that may differ from regular responsibilities. These requirements are considered essential functions of the role.
- A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.
Minimum Qualifications
- Seven or more years of experience working in public affairs, government relations, or community relations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Ability to follow Edison safety protocols and safe work practices.
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Political Science, Business, or related field.
- Experience in helping to manage candidate, ballot measure and/or issue advocacy campaigns.
- Experience managing infrastructure and public involvement activities.
- Experience working closely with local governments.
- Strong strategic, analytical, and planning skills.
- Effective decision making, results delivery, and team building.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with a strong attention to detail.
- Experience working in the energy industry.
- Ability to analyze, summarize and recommend ideas and concepts to senior management in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
- Strong ethics, people skills, and the ability to optimally manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
- Strong organizational skills with an elevated level of initiative and ability to effectively interface and collaborate with partners to help drive solutions and ensure stakeholder buy-in.
- Ability to handle and support multiple projects concurrently.
- Familiarity with social media tools for monitoring and engaging with stakeholders.
Additional Information
- This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
- Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
- Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
- This position will require reporting to SCE's Service Center in Goleta, CA. Reporting to another SCE facility in Ventura County may be considered based on the successful candidate's home location.
- Position will require up to 30% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
- Relocation does not apply to this position.
- This position is eligible for a location-based incentive. Incentive is offered if commitment is made to work on-site and to remain in specified work location for an agreed-upon timeframe.
About Southern California Edison
The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.
Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.
We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at AskHR@sce.com or (626) 302-3456 and select option 2.
Nearest Major Market: Santa Barbara
Nearest Secondary Market: Santa Maria
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of government relations jobs.
- 7 or more years of government relations, legislative affairs, or public policy experience
- Demonstrated experience lobbying or engaging directly with federal or state legislators
- Bachelor's degree in political science, public policy, law, or a related field
- Established relationships with relevant government agencies, committees, or regulatory bodies
- Experience developing and executing government affairs strategies aligned with business objectives
- Strong written communication skills including policy briefs, testimony, and regulatory comments
Tips for Your Director of Government Relations Job Search
Tailor your resume to legislative outcomes
Hiring managers for director of government relations roles want to see bills influenced, regulations shaped, or agency decisions reversed. Replace vague descriptions of relationship-building with specific policy wins, budget outcomes, or regulatory milestones you drove.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of government relations openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target roles by jurisdiction level strategically
Job postings distinguish between federal, state, and local government relations. If your experience is concentrated at the state level, filter and prioritize accordingly. Applying to federal-focused roles without matching experience weakens your candidacy significantly.
Prepare a policy platform narrative for interviews
Interviewers for these roles frequently ask how you approach a new regulatory environment. Prepare a two-minute narrative covering how you map stakeholders, identify champions, and sequence engagement. Generic answers about relationship-building rarely move candidates forward at the director level.
Highlight coalition-building in your cover letter
Many employers expect directors of government relations to mobilize trade associations, advocacy coalitions, or third-party validators. Your cover letter should name the types of coalitions you have built or joined, not just the agencies or legislators you have worked with.
Negotiate scope alongside title and compensation
When you receive an offer, clarify whether the role owns federal, state, or international portfolios and whether a team reports to you. Scope determines long-term leverage, and directors who negotiate clarity on jurisdiction early avoid turf conflicts that limit their effectiveness.
Director of Government Relations Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of government relationss?
Endeavor Health, McAllister and Quinn, and Southern California Edison are hiring the most director of government relationss right now, with openings concentrated in District of Columbia, California, and Virginia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, energy companies, and large technology firms tend to post the most volume at this level year-round.
How many director of government relations jobs are remote?
About 88% of director of government relations openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by industry and portfolio. Roles focused on federal affairs or national trade association work are more likely to allow remote arrangements, while state-level lobbying positions typically require presence in or near the state capital.
How do you become a director of government relations?
Most directors of government relations begin in legislative staffing, regulatory affairs, or public policy roles and build experience over several years before moving into corporate or association government affairs teams. From there, the path typically runs through manager and senior manager titles, with advancement tied to demonstrated policy wins, coalition leadership, and an expanding network of government contacts. Advanced degrees in law or public policy accelerate progression for some candidates.
Can I get a director of government relations job without direct lobbying experience?
Some employers will consider candidates who have worked in legislative offices, regulatory agencies, or policy-focused nonprofit roles even without formal corporate lobbying experience. The critical factor is whether you can demonstrate that you understand how decisions are made at the relevant jurisdiction level and that you have engaged directly with the people who make them. Highlighting policy outcomes you influenced in any capacity strengthens a non-traditional application considerably.
What does the director of government relations interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a recruiter screen focused on your policy background and jurisdiction experience, followed by a panel interview with senior government affairs leadership and sometimes a legal or compliance stakeholder. Candidates are often asked to walk through a past regulatory challenge in depth and may be given a written exercise such as drafting a policy brief or mapping a stakeholder engagement strategy. Final rounds frequently include a conversation with the executive sponsor for the role.
Where can I find and apply to director of government relations jobs?
You can find and apply to director of government relations jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search the listings to find roles that match your policy background, jurisdiction experience, and industry focus, then apply directly to each opening that fits.
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