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The Elevator Pitch  At Evolv, we're helping redefine how public spaces approach safety. Trusted by schools, hospitals, entertainment venues, sports stadiums, and other organizations across the country, our technology is helping communities create safer environments while preserving the welcoming experiences people expect.  As a Public Affairs Strategist, you'll lead Evolv's work to advance state-level policy that establishes advanced weapons screening as a recognized standard for keeping students and staff safe in K-12 schools. You'll build the state-by-state game plan — mapping the legislative and regulatory landscape, identifying and engaging the policymakers and community organizations who shape school-safety decisions, and organizing the coalitions that turn a shared goal into enacted policy. You'll begin with top priority states and carry them forward over time, expanding to new states as the program grows, and you'll help identify, direct, and manage outside lobbying partners where they can accelerate progress.  This role is ideal for a public affairs professional who has moved policy through statehouses before, thrives in complex multi-stakeholder environments, communicates with credibility and diplomacy across the political spectrum, helps identify the funding for new policy mandates and is energized by work that creates meaningful impact for students and communities.  What does success in the role look like?   Within the first 30 days, you will:    Develop a deep understanding of Evolv's mission, products, customers, and the school-safety policy landscape across priority states.  Build familiarity with the environment in a few, high priority states — existing legislation, recent legislative and regulatory activity, and the associations, research organizations, public-sector entities, and community leaders who influence school-safety decisions.  Establish working relationships with internal partners across Growth, Marketing, Sales, Product, Legal, and Customer Success.  Begin sharpening the prioritization view of where policy progress is most achievable, and put in place a game plan to help drive it forward.  Within 90 days, you will:   Deliver and begin executing a clear, actionable plan for each of the first three priority states — covering the legislative and regulatory landscape, the key policymakers and the path to engaging them, the coalition of supporters to organize, the most viable policy vehicle and funding pathway, and a clear-eyed read of likely opposition.  Begin building relationships with key external stakeholders in those states, including legislators and committee staff, school-safety associations, and education and parent organizations.  Help develop evidence-based, locally relevant messaging and supporting materials that communicate Evolv's impact to diverse audiences.  Recommend where outside lobbying or government-relations partners would accelerate progress and begin scoping and managing those engagements.  Within your first year, you will: Move the first states forward toward introduced legislation or regulatory action, and stand up the next wave of priority states.  Establish Evolv as a trusted, credible, and engaged participant in school-safety policy conversations.  Build and maintain meaningful relationships with priority associations, research institutions, public-sector organizations, and community influencers.  Develop a repeatable state playbook that allows the program to scale efficiently across many states.  Identify, direct, and manage outside lobbyists and partners across multiple states, ensuring their work aligns with Evolv's strategy and compliance st